Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the… — Stanley Hauerwas Accounts Copy Share Image
One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic… — Stanley Hauerwas About Copy Share Image
I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in… — Stanley Hauerwas About Copy Share Image
My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she… — Stanley Hauerwas Appropriate Copy Share Image
To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or… — Stanley Hauerwas Charitable Copy Share Image
From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal… — Stanley Hauerwas Appropriation Copy Share Image
We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of… — Stanley Hauerwas Assume Copy Share Image
America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that… — Stanley Hauerwas Always Copy Share Image
[W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we… — Stanley Hauerwas Christian Copy Share Image
Most of us believe that we possess some aspect of eternity that will insure some kind of survival beyond death. The only… — Stanley Hauerwas Aspect Copy Share Image
“The loss of Christendom gives us a joyous opportunity to reclaim the freedom to proclaim the gospel in a way in which… — Stanley Hauerwas Christianity Copy Share Image
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is. — Stanley Hauerwas Bases Copy Share Image
The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle… — Stanley Hauerwas Argue Copy Share Image
In a world of deep injustice and violence, a people exists that thinks some can be given time to study. We need… — Stanley Hauerwas Calling 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 Ability Copy Share Image
American Protestants do not have to believe in God because they believe in belief. That is why we have never been able… — Stanley Hauerwas Able Copy Share Image
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church. — Stanley Hauerwas Catholic Copy Share Image
The 'Cold War' impinged on the daily lives of Americans. The wars after 11 September 2001 have been fought without the general… — Stanley Hauerwas After Copy Share Image
I must begin by telling you that I do not like to preach on Reformation Sunday. Actually, I have to put it… — Stanley Hauerwas Actually Copy Share Image
I think it is a mistake to focus - as we most often do - only on the sacrifice of life that… — Stanley Hauerwas Also Copy Share Image
The fundamental character of our faith means an extensive diversity is required not only within local community, but between communities. — Stanley Hauerwas Between Copy Share Image
At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will… — Stanley Hauerwas Benefit Copy Share Image
'It is finished' will not be, as we know from the tradition of the ordering of these words from the cross, the… — Stanley Hauerwas Cross Copy Share Image
I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, North… — Stanley Hauerwas Am Copy Share Image
Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of… — Stanley Hauerwas Anyone Copy Share Image