The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I teach in the Divinity School at Duke University, a very secular university. But before Duke, I taught fourteen years at the… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I am not sure I can make clear what it means to say I come from the Catholic side of Protestantism, but… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power,… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The very fact that we find it hard to conceive of an alternative to limitless economic growth is an indication of our… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The fact that monasticism preceded the identification of greed as a primal sin is an important reminder that our very ability to… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others,… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine a more realistic faith than the Christian faith. At every turn, we are told we are death-determined creatures and… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The very idea that you could have separation between mosque and state from Islam's perspective is the imposition on them of Christian… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the… — 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
