A third festschrift for Hauerwas is just out ... the first was on his 60th birthday - Faithfulness and Fortitude edited by Sam Wells and Mark Thissen Nation (T & T Clark, 2000) and was made of mainly UK contributors (including Colin Gunton, John Milbank, Nigel Biggar and Duncan Forrester); the second was on his 65th birthday - God, Truth and Witness edited by Greg Jones, Reinhard Hutter and C. Rosalee Velloso Ewell (Brazos, 2005) and contributors included Robert Jenson, George Linbeck, Robert Bellah, David Burrell and Bernd Wannenwetsch.
Unsettling Arguments: A Festschrift on the Occasion of Stanley Hauerwas's 70th Birthday
Edited by Charles R. Pinches, Kelly S. Johnson, Charles M. Collier (Cascade, 2010)
Contributers are all former Hauerwas students:
Scott Bader-Saye
Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt
Michael Baxter
Daniel M. Bell Jr.
Jana Marguerite Bennett
Michael G. Cartwright
William T. Cavanaugh
Peter Dula
Chris K. Huebner
Kelly S. Johnson
D. Stephen Long
M. Therese Lysaught
David Matzko McCarthy
Joel James Shuman
J. Alexander Sider
Jonathan Tran
Paul J. Wadell
Theodore Walker Jr.
"Stanley Hauerwas is a public provocateur, a ravenous reader, a restless wrestler with the truth, and an eccentric devotee of baseball, murder mysteries, and liturgically-shaped discipleship. But most of all is he is a devoted, demanding, and dogged academic father to dozens of doctoral students. The breadth of his character takes a community to display. Here, more than ever before, that community of character does in public what Hauerwas and his students do best: tussle, and refine, and introduce new interlocutors, and dismiss out of hand, and rephrase more charitably, and rediscover ancient wisdom, and go back to Aquinas, and quote Barth, and dismantle platitudes, and unsentimentally face the gift and demands of Christ for church, academy, and politics today. This is a work of love turned into a call to renewal, a family reunion transformed into a symposium, a tribute in the guise of a challenge. Admirers and critics of Hauerwas will be enriched by these compelling essays, an ordered array of disagreements in love."
—Sam Wells
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