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The State of the University: Academic Knowledges and the Knowledge of God (Illuminations: Theory & Religion)
The State of the University Academic Knowledges and the Knowledge of God - Illuminations: Theory & Religion
Author: Stanley Hauerwas
In this book, controversial and world-renowned theologian, Stanley Hauerwas, tackles the issue of theology being sidelined as a necessary discipline in the modern university. It is an attempt to reclaim the knowledge of God as just that – knowledge. —
  • Questions why theology is no longer considered a necessary subject in the modern unive...  more »
  • Considers how theology is often excluded from the knowledges of the modern university because these are constituted by an understanding of time necessary to make economic and state realities seem inevitable

  • Argues that it is precisely this difference that makes Christian theology an essential resource for the university to achieve its task - that is, to form people who are able to imagine a different world through critical and disciplined reflection

  • Challenges the domesticated character of much recent theology by suggesting how prayer and the love of the poor are essential practices that should shape the theological task

  • Converses with figures as diverse as Luigi Giussani, David Burrell, Stanley Fish, Wendell Berry, Jeff Stout, Rowan Williams and Sheldon Wolin

  • Published in the new and prestigious Illuminations series.
ISBN-13: 9781405162470
ISBN-10: 1405162473
Publication Date: 6/15/2007
Pages: 232
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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