Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one's body shaped, one's habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church, the care… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for Christianity they… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share
