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Tony Jones Takes on the "Hauerwasian Mafia"

Posted Apr 10, 12:47 PM | 2 comments | by Steve Knight | Link

Tony Jones has posted an extra chapter that was cut from his book The New Christians. Entitled “Chaplain to the Culture?”, Jones takes on, what he calls (tongue-in-cheek), “the Hauerwasian Mafia” (HM; e.g., disciples of Duke Divinity School professor Stanley Hauerwas).

Tony describes several real-life experiences that he says “led me to appreciate philosophical pragmatism more than the neo-Artistotelianism of the HM (although pragmatism is also rooted in the thought of Aristotle). ... Like a jazz musician, followers of Jesus Christ must learn to improvise, and in order to improvise, we must first train ourselves to be keen observers.”

The “Hauerwasian Mafia” came up during Tony’s recent interview on the “Homebrewed Christianity” podcast, as well.

UPDATE: Doug Pagitt has posted the “commentary” version of Tony’s recent presentation at the “Emerging Church for the Existing Church” conference.

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1ceejay Apr 12, 09:43 AM

Thanks for the link to “The Missing Chapter”! Just finished reading the book this evening, and the extra chapter was icing on the cake.

2Ty Monroe Apr 14, 08:28 PM

wow. pragmatism, in itself, is a bombshell of a word which almost implies “doing what works” because it works without considering the long term consequences. isn’t that what got us into the “modern” quagmire of theology, ministry, and Christianity at large? if there’s one theologian who repeatedly feigns the ivory tower to deal with nuts and bolts, it’s Hauerwas. i haven’t read this book, so i guess i have to give tony a chance to contextualize these excerpts before i get too involved in this.
does is this comment seem Mafioso?

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