Unsettling Arguments: A Festschrift on the Occasion of Stanley Hauerwas's 70th Birthday

Unsettling Arguments: A Festschrift on the Occasion of Stanley Hauerwas's 70th Birthday by Charles R. Pinches, Kelly S. Johnson, and Charles M. Collier. Cascade Books (July 15, 2010). "Stanley Hauerwas is a public provocateur, a ravenous reader, a restless wrestler with the truth, and an eccentric devotee of baseball, murder mysteries, and liturgically-shaped discipleship. But most of all is he is a devoted, demanding, and dogged academic father to dozens of doctoral students. The breadth of his character takes a community to display. Here, more than ever before, that community of character does in public what Hauerwas and his students do best: tussle, and refine, and introduce new interlocutors, and dismiss out of hand, and rephrase more charitably, and rediscover ancient wisdom, and go back to Aquinas, and quote Barth, and dismantle platitudes, and unsentimentally face the gift and demands of Christ for church, academy, and politics today. This is a work of love turned into a call to renewal, a family reunion transformed into a symposium, a tribute in the guise of a challenge. Admirers and critics of Hauerwas will be enriched by these compelling essays, an ordered array of disagreements in love." —Sam Wells Dean of the Chapel, Duke University Reviews Briefly Reviewed Englewood Review of Books Vol. 3, no. 39. October 2010.