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A Better Hope: Resources for a Church Confronting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity
When Hauerwas says he included the last essay in this collection "just for the hell of it," he also announces what some will see as the book's overall organizing principle. In occasional pieces that range from personal appreciations of friends who have influenced his work to extended considerations of Walter Rauschenbusch and John Howard Yoder to biting critiques of an influential Vatican II statement on religious freedom (Dignitatis Humanae Personae) and of the United Methodist Church's Commission for the Study of Homosexuality, from which he resigned, Hauerwas picks plenty of fights. All the while, he also advocates pacifism, keeps capitalism and postmodernism in his sights, and insists that the church's task isn't to make America better but to be the ordinary, everyday church. He hopes this will be read as a hopeful book. Whether that hope is well founded remains to be seen. But he is nothing if not entertaining, and readers who have come to expect sparks to fly whenever he writes will not be disappointed. [Steven Schroeder, Booklist]
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A Better Hope: Resources for a Church Confronting Capitalism, Democracy, and Postmodernity (2000)
