Stanley Hauerwas
Stanley Hauerwas
Stanley Hauerwasis an American theologian, ethicist, and public intellectual. Hauerwas is a longtime professor at Duke University, serving as the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School with a joint appointment at the Duke University School of Law. In the fall of 2014, he also assumed a chair in Theological Ethics at the University of Aberdeen. Before coming to Duke, Hauerwas taught at the University of Notre Dame. Hauerwas is considered by many to be one...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth24 July 1940
CountryUnited States of America
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.
The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible by God’s patience, to challenge the world’s impatient violence by cross and resurrection.
I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.
The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.
I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.
Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.
Saints cannot exist without a community
Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.
I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me,
To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.
No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I
Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.
If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.