Love and good reasons : postliberal approaches to Christian ethics and literature
The author argues for the study of literature as a training ground for the kinds of thinking on which moral reasoning depends. The book combines postliberal narrative theology, especially Stanley Hauerwas's Christian ethics and Alasdair MacIntyre's idea of traditional inquiry, with recent scholarship in literature and ethics, including the work of Martha Nussbaum, J. Hillis Miller, Wayne Booth, Jeffrey Stout, and Richard Rorty. -- book cover
Criticism, interpretation, etc
313 pages ; 25 cm
9780822330530, 9780822330646, 0822330539, 0822330644
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Literary criticism and Christian ethics in service to one another
Toward a Christian ethics of reading, or, why we cannot be done with Bartleby
The "best blessing of existence": "conscious worth" in Emma
Honor, faithfulness, and community in Anthony Trollope's The warden and He knew he was right
The "very temple of authorised love": Henry James and The portrait of a lady
A light that has been there from the beginning: Stephen Crane and the Gospel of John
Afterword: postliberal Christian scholarship: an engagement with Rorty and Stout