01418nam a2200145Ia 4500008004100000020002900041041000800070050002400078100002300102245009800125260006400223300002700287505085600314650010201170240126s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a97802680073310268007330   aeng  aBJ1251 b.H325 1981  aHauerwas, Stanley  2aA Community of Character : bToward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic /cStanley Hauerwas  aNotre Dame, Ind. : bUniversity of Notre Dame Press, c1981  ax, 298 p. b; c23 cm.  apt. 1. The narrative character of Christian social ethics. A story-formed community : reflections on Watership down -- Jesus : the story of the Kingdom -- The moral authority of scripture : the politics and ethics of remembering -- The church and liberal democracy : the moral limits of a secular polity -- pt. 2. Church and the world : history, politics, and the virtues. The church in a divided world : the interpretative power of the Christian story -- The virtues and our communities : human nature as history -- Character, narrative, and growth in the Christian life -- pt. 3. The church and social policy : the family, sex, and abortion. The moral value of the family -- The family : theological and ethical reflections -- Sex in public : toward a Christian ethic of sex -- Why abortion is a religious issue -- Abortion : why the arguments fail.  aChristian ethics.Abortion Religious aspects Christianity.Families Religious aspects Christianity.