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041			_aeng
050			_aBJ1251 _b.H325 1981
100			_aHauerwas, Stanley
245		2	_aA Community of Character : _bToward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic / _cStanley Hauerwas
260			_aNotre Dame, Ind. : _bUniversity of Notre Dame Press, _c1981
300			_ax, 298 p. _b; _c23 cm.
505			_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.
650			_aChristian ethics.Abortion Religious aspects Christianity.Families Religious aspects Christianity.
999			_c51729 _d51729