Name: The Difference Christ Makes
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Author: Richard B. Hays
ISBN: 9781625640567

Type

Physical Book

Author

Richard B. Hays

Publisher

Cascade Books

Language

English

Pages

114

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.9 x 15.2 x 0.7 cm

Weight

0.18 kg.

ISBN13

9781625640567

Synopsis "The Difference Christ Makes"

""The papers and responses in this volume were delivered, fittingly, on All Saints Day, 2013, as part of a day-long event to celebrate the career of Stanley Hauerwas, upon the occasion of his retirement from the faculty of Duke Divinity School. . . . [T]he central message of the day was encapsulated in the theme of the whole event: ""The Difference Christ Makes."" As the different speakers talked about Stanley's paradigm-changing impact on scholarship, one insight came ever more clearly into focus: the deepest theme of Stanley's work, the consistent thread running through all his thought, is his emphasis on the centrality of Jesus Christ. At the end of the day, his work is not defined by the ethics of character, or by pacifism, or by countercultural communitarian ecclesiology. All these elements play important roles in his writings, but they are reflexes or consequences of his more fundamental commitment to think rigorously about the implications of confessing Jesus Christ as Lord."" --from the foreword by Richard B. Hays Contents of The Difference Christ Makes A Homily on All Saints, Stanley Hauerwas 1. ""The Difference Christ Makes,"" Samuel Wells 2. ""Truthfulness and Continual Discomfort,"" Jennifer A. Herdt Response by Charlie Pinches 3. ""Anne and the Difficult Gift of Stanley Hauerwas's Church,"" Jonathan Tran Response by Peter Dula 4. ""Making Connections: By Way of a Response to Wells, Herdt, and Tran,"" Stanley Hauerwas Appendix: Service of Holy Eucharist, the Feast of All Saints, Goodson Chapel, Duke Divinity School

Richard B. Hays

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Richard Burnett Hays fue un teólogo y biblista estadounidense, reconocido por su trabajo riguroso en el Nuevo Testamento y la hermenéutica bíblica. Su enfoque se caracterizó por una lectura literaria y teológica de las Escrituras, atenta a las resonancias internas del texto bíblico más que a interpretaciones aisladas o puramente históricas. Hays combinó erudición académica con una prosa clara y argumentativa, evitando el tecnicismo vacío y apostando por lecturas con peso ético y teológico real.

Su obra más influyente incluye Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels, donde propone leer los Evangelios como textos profundamente entrelazados con la tradición hebrea, y Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul, ya considerada un clásico contemporáneo. El aporte central de Hays fue enseñar a leer “con oído”, detectando ecos, alusiones y estructuras narrativas que transforman la interpretación bíblica. No simplificó el texto: lo volvió más exigente. Y más interesante.

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