Abstracts for Session 3A

"A University for the Poor: Poverty, Charity and Vision in Hauerwas' University," Steve Harris (Redeemer University College)

Abstract
Hauerwas’ examination of the life and work of St. Gregory of Nazianzus leads him to the conclusion that the modern university is incapable of producing such saints. Through an unfolding of Hauerwasian ecclesial politics that sees the church as school of virtue and shaper of an alternative vision to Western liberalism and other competing worldviews, this paper shows the necessity of the practice of charity for the Christian formation of students, educators and universities. Charity provides a lens to understand why, as Hauerwas laments, “The university is not able to produce people to see and describe the poor as beautiful.”

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Abstracts for Session 3B

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