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In Good Company: The Church As Polis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Gloria Albrecht
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , May 1997 , pp. 219 - 227
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1997

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References

1 In Good Company: The Church as Polis, by Hauerwas, Stanley. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995Google Scholar. Page references to In Good Company are bracketed within the text of this article.

2 See Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970)Google Scholar; Harding, Sandra, The Science Question in Feminism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986)Google Scholar; Nelson, Lynn Hankinson, Who Knows:From Quine to a Feminist Empiricism (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990)Google Scholar.

3 See especially Hauerwas, Stanley, The Peaceable Kingdom (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983)Google Scholar.

4 Hauerwas says, for example, ‘… our practices in all their diversity … exercise coercive power over us with regard to our ability to think about these matters’ (186) and Those who use the language of abortion … dwell in a different world from those who use the language of termination of pregnancy … (178).

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7 Hauerwas, Stanley, A Community of Character (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981), 223, 221.Google Scholar

8 Ibid., 153.

9 Hauerwas, , Unleashing the Scripture: Freeing the Bible from Captivity to America (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993)Google Scholar.

10 Foucault, Michel, Power/Knowledge, ed. and trans. Gordon, Colin (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 92–99.Google Scholar

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