Reading Mill and Forster in Church: Liberal and Hauerwasian Ethics in Conversation

Studies in Christian Ethics 28 (4):478-490 (2015)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

Throughout his theological career Stanley Hauerwas has struggled to maintain a demarcation between liberal and Christian ethics. Is such a separation theologically defensible? In an effort to deconstruct Hauerwas’s hostility to liberalism through Hauerwasian categories, the following article examines areas of resemblance between liberal and Hauerwasian ethics. Through a comparative reading of the liberalisms of J. S. Mill and E. M. Forster, the following argument retrieves a neglected form of liberal politics which in many respects conforms to the structure of Hauerwas’s radical description of Christian discipleship. Instead of understanding the Church as an isolated colony embattled against non-Christian culture, Mill and Forster challenge Hauerwas to consider the liberal polity as both the child and responsibility of the Church.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,593

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Mills liberalism and liberalism's posterity.John Gray - 2000 - The Journal of Ethics 4 (1-2):137-165.
Was Mill a non-cognitivist?Christopher Macleod - 2013 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 51 (2):206-223.
Mill's theory of moral rules.Gerald F. Gaus - 1980 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 58 (3):265 – 279.
Two concepts of liberal developmentalism.Inder S. Marwah - 2016 - European Journal of Political Theory 15 (1):97-123.
The Hidden Text of Mill's Liberty.Stewart Justman - 1990 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Reading Mill: studies in political theory.Ian Cook - 1998 - New York: St. Martin's Press.
On Millgram on mill.Dale E. Miller - 2004 - Utilitas 16 (1):96-108.

Analytics

Added to PP
2015-09-03

Downloads
16 (#774,541)

6 months
4 (#319,344)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

On liberty.John Stuart Mill - 1956 - In Steven M. Cahn (ed.), Exploring Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology. Oxford University Press. pp. 519-522.

Add more references