With the Grain of the Universe
Subtitle: The Churchs Witness and Natural Theology
Publisher: Brazos Press
Published: October 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781587430169
Subjects: Christian moral & pastoral theology; Christian theology; Religion & Beliefs; Social, group or collective psychology; Psychology of Religion; God; Religion - Theology; Religion; Theology; Christian Theology - Ecclesiology; Christian Theology - General; Religion / Theology; Theology: General Studies/Reference, Ethics; Ethics; God (Christianity); Natural theology; Christianity - Theology - Ecclesiology
Description: These lectures explore how natural theology, divorced from a confessional doctrine of God, inevitably distorts our understanding of God's character and the world in which we live. Hauerwas criticizes those who use natural theology to defend theism as the philosophical prerequisite to confessional claims. Instead, after Karl Barth, he argues that natural theology should witness to "the non-Godforsakeness of the world, even under the conditions of sin."