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Stanley Hauerwas

American Theologian

Born: Jul 24, 1940

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America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity. Stanley Hauerwas

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The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are. Stanley Hauerwas

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In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may have doubts about Christian orthodoxy may continue to go to church. They do so because they assume that a vague god vaguely prayed to is the god that is needed to support family and nation. Stanley Hauerwas

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I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods. Stanley Hauerwas

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I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism. Stanley Hauerwas

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From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter. Stanley Hauerwas

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Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian. Stanley Hauerwas

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I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is one of the reasons, moreover, that the scriptures remain paradigmatic for how we are to write. Stanley Hauerwas

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I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world. Stanley Hauerwas

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Being a Christian has not and does not come naturally or easy for me. I take that to be a good thing because I am sure that to be a Christian requires training that lasts a lifetime. Stanley Hauerwas

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Just as an athlete with natural gifts may fail to develop the fundamental skills necessary to play their sport after their talent fades, so people naturally disposed to faith may fail to develop the skills necessary to sustain them for a lifetime. Stanley Hauerwas

The god most Americans say they believe in is just not interesting enough to deny. Thus the only kind of atheism that counts in America is to call into question the proposition that everyone has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Stanley Hauerwas

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Christianity is not some ideal toward which we ought always to strive even though the ideal is out of reach. Christianity is not a series of slogans that sum up our beliefs. Stanley Hauerwas

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Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time. Stanley Hauerwas

I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought. Stanley Hauerwas

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Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that threatened to consume her. Israel, who would be tempted by the idolatrous presumption she possessed God's name, rightly never forgot she could not say God's name. Stanley Hauerwas

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God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God. Stanley Hauerwas

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