Stanley Hauerwas 
The State of the University [PDF ebook] 
Academic Knowledges and the Knowledge of God

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 university, and explores the role it should
play in the development of our ‘knowledge’

* 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.

Table of Content

Preface.

Introduction.

1. Theological Knowledge and the Knowledges of the University:
Beginning Explorations.

2. Leaving Ruins: The Gospel and Cultural Formations.

3. How Risky is The Risk of Education: Random Reflections from
the American Context.

4. The End of ‘Religious Pluralism:’ A Tribute to David Burrell,
C.S.C.

5. The Pathos of the University: The Case of Stanley Fish.

6. What Would a Christian University Look Like?: Some Tentative
Answers Inspired by Wendell Berry.

7. Pro Ecclesia, Pro Texana: Schooling the Heart in the Heart of
Texas.

8. Christians and the So-Called State (We Are In): A Meditation
on Loyalty after September 11, 2001.

9. Democratic Time: Lessons Learned from Yoder and Wolin.

10. The State of the Secular: Theology, Prayer, and the
University.

11. To Love God, the Poor, and Learning: Lessons Learned from
Saint Gregory of Nazianzus.

12. Seminaries Are in Trouble: Chastened Reflections on the
Centennial of Bethany Theological Seminary.

13. Ordinary Time: A Tribute to Rowan Williams.

Index

About the author

Stanley Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke University and holds a joint appointment in Duke Law School. He is known to be controversial and outspoken; his stand as a pacifist against the Iraq war made him a nationally recognized dissident but won him few friends. His work cuts across disciplinary lines: systematic theology, philosophical theology and ethics, political theory, as well as the philosophy of social science and medical ethics.