{"product_id":"a-better-hope-stanley-hauerwas-9781587430008","title":"A Better Hope: Resources for a Church Confronting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity","description":"By his own admission never one to duck a good fight, Stanley Hauerwas has in the past three decades established himself as one of our most important and most disputatious theologians. With \u003ci\u003eA Better Hope\u003c\/i\u003e, he concentrates on the constructive case for the truth and power of the church and its faith, \"since Christians cannot afford to let ourselves be defined by what we are against. Whatever or whomever we are against, we are so only because God has given us so much to be for.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHauerwas here crystallizes and extends profound criticisms of America, liberalism, capitalism, and postmodernism, but also identifies unlikely allies (such as Chicago Archbishop Francis Cardinal George) and locates surprising resources for Christian survival (such as mystery novels). Interlocutors along the way include Reinhold Niebuhr, John Courtney Murray, and, in a significant and previously unpublished essay, social gospeller Walter Rauschenbusch.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNever boring and often telling, \u003ci\u003eA Better Hope\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how a thinker so often accused of being \"tribal\" and \"sectarian\" is at the same time one of few contemporary theologians read not just by other theologians, but by political scientists, philosophers, medical ethicists, law professors, and literary theorists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanley Hauerwas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1587430002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781587430008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brazos Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 6.00w x 0.77d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/27\/2000 pg. 73\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2000 pg. 680","brand":"Stanley Hauerwas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44227804496127,"sku":"9781587430008","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b837258e-4710-41b4-b595-6f8c56d8870e.jpg?v=1692810703","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-better-hope-stanley-hauerwas-9781587430008","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}