Stanley Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University. He is the author of several books, including Suffering Presence and Vision and Virtue, and is co-author of Christians Among the Virtues, all published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

Describing Hauerwas' work as Christian ethics, one can allow that phrase its full scope of meaning. It is the work of an ethician, who is thoroughly conversant with that branch of philosophy and comes to grips with its major issues. He is also firmly committed to the view that, in modifying the substantive 'ethics' with the adjective 'Christian,' one is designating a distinct reality.