American - Theologian | July 24, 1940 -
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
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The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.
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'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.
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When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that.
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To be a Christian means you become a part of the most significant story the world has ever heard. You don't become part of that without an ongoing questioning of what it means to become part of that.
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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.
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I'm a happy and productive person. I'm very fortunate; I was born with happy genes. I've got a lot of energy.
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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.
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I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.
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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, it's very hard not to use it.
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One of the problems we currently have is there hasn't been in the population any serious engagement with the ethics of war because we have an all-volunteer army. I would think the return to the draft would be an intervention that would require discussion that might be more helpful in terms of our ability to limit war.
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Jesus made the final sacrifice for all, and we need not make it again.
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