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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...

I HOPE A BETTER HOPE will be read as a hopeful book. John Howard Yoder observed that I have maximized the “provocative edge of the dissenting posture with titles like Against the Nations or Resident Aliens.”1 I do not deny that I love a good fight, but I also know that it is a mistake, at least if you are a Christian, to have your life or theology determined by who you think are your enemies. Christians know we will have enemies because we are told we must love our
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