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Beyond Universal Reason
The Relation Between Religion and Ethics in the Work of Stanley Hauerwas
Emmanuel Katongole (Author)
9780268021597
Paperback / softback, published 30 March 2000
368 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm, 0.485 kg
"[A] comprehensive and perceptive understanding of Hauerwas's work.... [L]ucid and authoritative...." —Studies in Christian Ethics "Katongole gives us the best critical analysis of Hauerwas' work currently available."—Pro Ecclesia "Katongole's well-written book is a significant contribution. ...[A] historical conception of the moral life that is among the most coherent and comprehensive to date. ...[T]his fine work deserves to be read widely." —Theological Studies
In The Peaceable Kingdom Stanley Hauerwas claims that "to begin by asking what is the relation between theology and ethics is to have already made a mistake." Hauerwas's claim, and his contribution toward a socially constituted and historically embodied account of the moral life and moral reason, are often charged with sectarianism, relativism, and tribalism. Emmanuel Katongole defends Hauerwas's dismissal of the traditional philosophical "problem" of the relation between ethics and religion. It is, he argues, part of Hauerwas's wider attempt to set aside the dominant Kantian moral tradition. Standard fare in moral philosophy, inspired by that tradition, fosters a highly formal, ahistorical view of ethics that does not do justice to our experience of ourselves as moral agents.