Fully Alive

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Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at Duke Divinity School. He is considered one of the world's most influential living theologians, even appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Hauerwas has published extensively, including his book A Community of Character, which was named among the one hundred most important books on religion in the twentieth century by Christianity Today.

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"Fully Alive uses the work of Karl Barth to develop a humanism that can produce a form of Christianity that gives people hope in a time of uncertainty. It is assumed that Christianity no longer has social and political power but that makes possible a church that may actually tell the truth. Besides Barth, Reinhold Niebuhr plays a prominent role in the book, and race is treated in a retrospective essay"--