Description: "Fully Alive uses the work of Karl Barth to develop a humanism that can produce a form of Christianity that gives people hope in a time of uncertainty. It is assumed that Christianity no longer has social and political power but that makes possible a church that may actually tell the truth. Besides Barth, Reinhold Niebuhr plays a prominent role in the book, and race is treated in a retrospective essay"--
Review Quotes:
As he reaches the culmination of his illustrious career, Stanley Hauerwas is in a mood for retrospect, summation, clarification, and reiteration. In his core chapters he takes Karl Barth's radical Christ-based "humanism" as his theme. Beyond his moving chapters with Barth, he voices guarded affirmation for Reinhold Niebuhr, much appreciation for Alasdair MacIntyre, and careful attention to Michael Ignatieff. A welcome addition to his expansive corpus, this rich offering exhibits how widely Hauerwas has probed, how deeply he sees the main issues, and how resolved he is for the claims of gospel faith. Hauerwas remains undiminished in the vigor, energy, and courage that that have regularly characterized his work.
--Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary, author of Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks