Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas
Stanley Hauerwas (b. 1940) — Theologe, Ethiker · Methodistisch · USA
Stanley Hauerwas ist ein US-amerikanischer methodistischer Theologe und christlicher Ethiker, der vor allem als langjähriger Professor an der Duke University wirkte. Er steht für eine an Tugenden orientierte theologische Ethik, einen radikalen christlichen Pazifismus und das Verständnis der Kirche als prophetische Kontrastgesellschaft zur säkularen Kultur. Für Bibelleser verdeutlicht er den Anspruch einer kompromisslosen Nachfolge Christi, während er wegen seiner Schärfe gegen die liberale Gesellschaft und seines unkritischen Umgangs mit den Missbrauchstaten seines Mentors John Howard Yoder umstritten bleibt.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Church & Congregation, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Discipleship, Freedom & Truth, Peace & Rest, Faith & Trust, Humility & Pride, Ethical Questions
Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas
Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.
Stanley Hauerwas
My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.
Stanley Hauerwas
Peace is a deeper reality than violence.
Stanley Hauerwas
The courageous have fears that cowards never know.
Stanley Hauerwas
The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.
Stanley Hauerwas
I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.
Stanley Hauerwas
No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control.
Stanley Hauerwas
Whatever it means to be a Christian, it at least involves the discovery of friends you did not know you had.
Stanley Hauerwas
As long as it is assumed that war is always an available option, we will not be forced to imagine any alternative to war.
Stanley Hauerwas
Jesus is Lord is not my personal opinion. I take it to be a determinative political claim.
Stanley Hauerwas
The church occupies the space he has made so that the world may see what a people look like who are not determined by the destructive fantasy that we can secure our lives through violence.
Stanley Hauerwas
Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.
Stanley Hauerwas
The church is constituted as a new people who have been gathered from the nations to remind the world that we are in fact one people. Gathering, therefore, is an eschatological act as it is the foretaste of the unity of the communion of the saints.
Stanley Hauerwas
You learn who you are only by making yourself accountable to the judgment of others.
Stanley Hauerwas
The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.
Stanley Hauerwas
We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God's kingdom transcend those of Caesar, and that the main political task of the church is the formation of people who see clearly the cost of discipleship and are willing to pay the price.
Stanley Hauerwas
The church does not exist to provide an ethos for democracy or any other form of social organization, but stands as a political alternative to every nation, witnessing to the kind of social life possible for those that have been formed by the story of Christ.
Stanley Hauerwas
Sources: giffordarchives.org, livedtheology.org, providencemag.com, bu.edu
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