Approaching the End. Stanley Hauerwas

Approaching the End - Stanley Hauerwas


Скачать книгу
an overlap between Christian morality and different forms of secular morality cannot help but fall into the theological error of “failing to take the doctrine of the creation with full seriousness and truncating the scriptural witness to God as the one who creates and sustains the natural world.”35

      I should be candid and acknowledge that Porter’s critique of Barth is also a critique directed at me and, in particular, my pacifism. According to Porter, it is a mistake to think the difference between the scholastics and pacifists is that the former derive their ethics from reason and the latter derive their ethics from the Bible. Rather, what is at stake is two ways of interpreting the moral significance of Scripture. The scholastics interpret Scripture on the basis of natural law, but the concept of natural law is grounded in scripturally informed texts of creation.

      Yet the question must then be asked, What difference does her appeal to creation as a necessary theological presumption to sustain natural-­law reasoning make for moral reflection? As far as I can see, in spite of her strong claims concerning the necessity of creation to justify a natural law ethic, her theological convictions do no work for her.


Скачать книгу