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In Good Company: The Church As Polis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1997

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References

1 In Good Company: The Church as Polis, by Hauerwas, Stanley. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995Google Scholar. Page references to In Good Company are bracketed within the text of this article.

2 See Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970)Google Scholar; Harding, Sandra, The Science Question in Feminism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986)Google Scholar; Nelson, Lynn Hankinson, Who Knows:From Quine to a Feminist Empiricism (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990)Google Scholar.

3 See especially Hauerwas, Stanley, The Peaceable Kingdom (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983)Google Scholar.

4 Hauerwas says, for example, ‘… our practices in all their diversity … exercise coercive power over us with regard to our ability to think about these matters’ (186) and Those who use the language of abortion … dwell in a different world from those who use the language of termination of pregnancy … (178).

5 Hauerwas, and Willimon, , Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1989)Google Scholar.

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8 Ibid., 153.

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