{"product_id":"love-and-good-reasons-fritz-oehlschlaeger-9780822330646","title":"Love and Good Reasons: Postliberal Approaches to Christian Ethics and Literature","description":"Insisting on the vital, productive relationship between ethics and the study of literature, \u003ci\u003eLove and Good Reasons\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates ways of reading novels and stories from a Christian perspective. Fritz Oehlschlaeger argues for the study of literature as a training ground for the kinds of thinking on which moral reasoning depends. He challenges methods of doing ethics that attempt to specify universally binding principles or rules and argues for the need to bring literature back into conversation with the most basic questions about how we should live.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove and Good Reasons\u003c\/i\u003e combines postliberal narrative theology-especially Stanley Hauerwas's Christian ethics and Alasdair MacIntyre's idea of traditional inquiry-with recent scholarship in literature and ethics including the work of Martha Nussbaum, J. Hillis Miller, Wayne Booth, Jeffrey Stout, and Richard Rorty. Oehlschlaeger offers detailed readings of literature by five major authors-Herman Melville, Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope, Henry James, and Stephen Crane. He examines their works in light of biblical scripture and the grand narratives of Israel, Jesus, and the Church. Discussing the role of religion in contemporary higher education, Oehlschlaeger shares his own experiences of teaching literature from a religious perspective at a state university.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fritz Oehlschlaeger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822330644\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822330646\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.74h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Fritz Oehlschlaeger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47757848019199,"sku":"9780822330646","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_63f577b6-a580-4949-8f88-ef3b36aabde8.jpg?v=1765510741","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-and-good-reasons-fritz-oehlschlaeger-9780822330646","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}