Date of Award
Spring 2003
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Theology
First Advisor
Hinze, Bradford
Second Advisor
Dabney, D. L.
Third Advisor
Duffey, Michael
Abstract
The theology of Stanley Hauerwas presents a critical challenge to systematic theology in the contemporary context. He believes that the Christian narrative theology provided by the community of faith is the most appropriate context in which to "do" theology. The "doing" of theology, in such a context is not the academic reflection and thematic construction often associated with systematic theology. Instead, theology is best discovered and discussed as the living of the Christian life. Thus, theology is a discipline of the church. rather than of scholarly pursuit, though certainly scholarship may be included. Ecclesiology, then, becomes central for Hauerwas...