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Some fourteen years after its initial publication, this important and influential book, with a new, substantial, and candid introduction by the author, is available in a reasonably priced paperback edition. In this volume Hauerwas assesses recent interest in the “ethics of character” and suggests areas in his own work that now call for some corrective and/or further work.
“[T]his is an important book. Christian ethics may or may not adopt Hauerwas’s concept of ‘character,’ but it certainly should take note of his radically different focus. Given the weakness of so much contemporary Christian ethics . . . it is surely significant that there are at last signs that the discipline may be entering fresh territory. If for that reason alone this book deserves to be read widely.” —Scottish Journal of Theology
Stanley Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University. He is the author of Vision and Virtue and Community of Character and co-author of Christians Among the Virtues, all published by the University of Notre Dame Press.