I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual… — Stanley Hauerwas Age 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 Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried… — Stanley Hauerwas Avoid 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
Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of… — Stanley Hauerwas Came Copy Share Image
To kill, in war or in any circumstance, creates a silence. It is right that silence should surround the taking of life.… — Stanley Hauerwas After Copy Share Image
I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible.… — Stanley Hauerwas Bible Copy Share Image
Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve… — Stanley Hauerwas Community Copy Share Image
The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible… — Stanley Hauerwas Believe 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
The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus… — Stanley Hauerwas Bitter Copy Share Image
Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who has… — Stanley Hauerwas About 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
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
Christians need jobs just like anybody else, but the years you spend as an undergraduate are like everything else in your life.… — Stanley Hauerwas Anybody Copy Share Image
The mentally ill may have shattered lives, but how that is different than the way sin distorts our ability to comprehend who… — Stanley Hauerwas Ability 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 Before 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… — Stanley Hauerwas Belief Copy Share Image
Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but… — Stanley Hauerwas After Copy Share Image
Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence… — Stanley Hauerwas Because 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 not convinced that the U.S. is more religious than Britain. Even if more people go to church in America, I… — Stanley Hauerwas Am Copy Share Image
I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing… — Stanley Hauerwas Abolish Copy Share Image
By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed… — Stanley Hauerwas Became Copy Share Image
We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get… — Stanley Hauerwas After Copy Share Image
It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s… — Stanley Hauerwas Age Copy Share Image
Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may… — Stanley Hauerwas Any Copy Share Image
To be sure, those who are actually engaged in combat - those who actually see the maimed bodies and mourning mothers -… — Stanley Hauerwas Actually 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 Brief Copy Share Image
To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and… — Stanley Hauerwas Absolutely Copy Share Image
The world does not have time to be with the poor, to learn with the poor, to listen to the poor. To… — Stanley Hauerwas Become Copy Share Image
I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention… — Stanley Hauerwas Another Copy Share Image
Protestantism became identified with the republican presumption in liberty as an end in itself. This presumption was then reinforced by an unassailable… — Stanley Hauerwas Became 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
There is nothing wrong with making money, but it was just not in my family's habits to know how to do that.… — Stanley Hauerwas Did Copy Share Image
