Religion As Worldview

by Zoë Pollock

Mark Vernon reviews Hannah's Child, the memoir of theologian Stanley Hauerwas:

[W]hat I found odd was coming away with little feeling for what it means to be a Hauerwasian Christian – to be Christian as opposed to do Christianity. He confesses that he is not much given to prayer, and that counts for inner reflection too. … It also means that Christianity comes across not as a spiritual reality – there's little sense of struggle and relationship with Christ or God, which you powerfully get when reading the autobiographies of an Augustine – but rather Christianity is a practical matter, a worldview that delivers policy.