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Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony | 
| Authors: Stanley Hauerwas, William H. Willimon
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 26453
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 175
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0687361591
Dewey Decimal Number: 261.1
EAN: 9780687361595
ASIN: 0687361591
Publication Date: October 1989
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Condition: some shelf wear/dust on cover and edges of pages. some water damage.
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In this bold and visionary ebook, two leading Christian thinkers explore the "alien" status of Christians in today's world, and offer a compelling new vision of how the Christian church can regain its vitality, battle its malaise, reclaim its capacity to nourish souls, and stand firmly against the illusions, pretensions, and eroding values of today's world. Hauerwas and Willimon call for a radical new understanding of the church. By renouncing the emphasis on personal psychological categories, they offer a vision of the church as a colony, a holy nation, a peole, a family standing for sharply focused values in a devalued world.
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 It'll mess with your mind...in a good way July 30, 2008
M. Randall Melton (Gonzales, Texas)
This is a book that I read when it first came out about 20 years ago. When I re-read it recently it had a very different impact on me, probably because of the experience of a quarter century of ordained ministry. I got much more out of the book the second time around.
The book is about the battle between culture and Church and the Church's role within, but not TO, the culture. While this book is a bit dated, I found it to be surprisingly fresh and timely and think it would be a great discussion book in Christian circles. Provocative to be sure, I was a bit offended at times, and yet found myself resonating with the offensive statement, when I allowed it to germinate a bit.
Here's an example of what I mean from page 42. "The Church is one political entity in our culture that is global, trans-national, trans-cultural. Tribalism is not the Church determined to serve God rather than Caesar. Tribalism is the United States of America, which sets up artificial boundaries and defends them with murderous intensity. And the tribalism of nations occurs most viciously in the absence of a Church able to say and to show, in its life together, that God, not nations, rules the world." OUCH!
A Post-liberal primer on church and culture February 26, 2008
Mac S. Sandlin
A highly readable and important book on the way that Christians should interact with the surrounding culture. The post-liberal theology that drives the authors conclusions is interesting and relevant. This book gives a nice introduction to post-liberal thought without ever having to even mention the term. Having read it made reading Lindbeck's seminal work, the nature of doctrine, much easier.
Foundational December 15, 2007
Michael Blyth (Jos, Nigeria)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I would include this in any list of books that all Western Christians should read. As a missionary in Nigeria, I can also say that the message is also urgently needed in African churches, still in an earlier stage of formation. I can understand and partly agree with some of the criticisms of other reviewers here, but the strength of the book is that it presents its radical message in a semi-popular, readable format. I was struck by its pithiness, with memorable and important sentences on nearly every page.
One warning: I did find that the first chapter or two were rather dry compared to the rest, so don't give up if you're put off when you start. You could even skip the beginning and go back to it later without losing much.
Great intro to Hauerwas' thought July 20, 2005
Brandon Lorge (Minneapolis, MN)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
The theology outlined and the methods of pastoral care and response are stunning. If the church allows itsself to be faithful to its calling (as they insist that it must) the world would be changed!
If you've never read anything by Hauerwas, I'd say that this is as good of a place as any to start. It mixes theology with pastoral care and allows you to process through what the authors are saying with case studies and examples that make a lot of sense. It's not necessarily the best resource for an advanced seminarian, but then again, it seems to be written primarily for a lay-level audiences and for pastors.
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