Because Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas

15 Because quotes by Stanley Hauerwas

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Hauerwas’s 15 thoughts on “Because” bring a theological depth to ordinary motives, each sentence a concise theological reflection. The set offers a clear sense of his moral‑philosophical lens.

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To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and…

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Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence…

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Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may…

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I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'

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Americans assume that we never go to war to sustain our wealth, because war must be understood as a moral enterprise commensurate…

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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…

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There's an inclination to get on the inside of Jesus' psyche, and I think that's a deep mistake because it assumes that…

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American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able…

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My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to…

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One of the problems we currently have is there hasn't been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war…

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I think the language of sacrifice is particularly important for societies like the United States in which war remains our most determinative…

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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…

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Christian salvation consists in works. To be saved is to be made holy. To be saved requires our being made part of…

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Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others,…

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Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of…

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Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

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It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to…

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I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be…

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Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church, the care…

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God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.

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When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

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To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because…

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Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

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The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated.

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I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an…

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The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of…

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One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of…

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