@article{ref1,
title="HAUERWAS AND POLITICAL THEOLOGY: The Next Generation",
journal="Journal of Religious Ethics",
year="2008",
author="Pinches, Charles",
volume="36",
number="3",
pages="513-542",
abstract="In this review essay, I consider the recent work of students of Stanley Hauerwas on matters related to political theology. Eight books (and scattered articles) are treated in two groups: one more theoretical, the other more practically oriented. Of special interest is whether and how Jeffrey Stout's concerns about Hauerwas's negative political “influence” apply. I suggest that while sometimes narratives of decline dominate overmuch, these works rightly and creatively seek to expand our political imagination beyond the narrowness of modern nation-state politics and its attending capitalist assumptions. Moreover, in all cases, Hauerwas's students stress a kind of political embodiment of Christ in the practices of particular communities, beginning with the Christian Church, but including also medicine, economy, and family. Spread out, this embodiment combats a pervasive modern Gnosticism, trains us in patience and hope, and gives room for a more truthful description of Church and world.<p />",
language="",
issn="0384-9694",
doi="10.1111/j.1467-9795.2008.00358.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9795.2008.00358.x"
}