Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success. Stanley Hauerwas disunitynameprotestant Change image and share on social
To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many. Stanley Hauerwas charityextendfood Change image and share on social
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 assessablebeliefchristian Change image and share on social
Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic. Stanley Hauerwas americaassumecommon Change image and share on social
One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians. Stanley Hauerwas challengechristianconfront Change image and share on social
Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life. Stanley Hauerwas catholicchristianityclear Change image and share on social
My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent. Stanley Hauerwas callchristchristian share on social
Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who has created a new time that gives us the time not only to care for the poor but to be poor. Jesus is the one who makes it possible to be nonviolent in a violent world. Stanley Hauerwas agecarecreate share on social
The fact that I spent my life in universities in a manner that I no longer have close identification with bricklayers is a pain to me. Stanley Hauerwas bricklayerclosefact Change image and share on social
I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods. Stanley Hauerwas ageassumptioncall share on social