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A Better Hope: Resources for a Church Confronting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity is unavailable, but you can change that!

By his own admission, Stanley Hauerwas, never one to duck a good fight, has, in the past three decades, established himself as one of our most important and most disputatious theologians. With A Better Hope, 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...

Modernity and its bastard offspring postmodernity are but reflections of the Christian attempt to make God a god available without the mediation of the church.9 Such a god cannot help but become some “timeless thing” necessary to ensure the assumed truth of Christianity in service to the growth of secular power. Postmodernism, in short, is the outworking of mistakes in Christian theology correlative to the attempt to make Christianity “true” apart from faithful witness. This is undoubtedly a strong
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