American - Theologian | July 24, 1940 -
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
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Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very body destines us to death. We must be born and we must die.
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I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.
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The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.
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I have assumed my clear commitment to a Trinitarian orthodoxy was sufficient evidence that I have not intentionally ignored the role of the Holy Spirit. It may be true, however, that my work has been so Christ-centred, I may have given the impression that the Holy Spirit is an afterthought.
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I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian.
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At least one reason for trying to live lives that make a difference is that by so living, we hope we will not be forgotten by those who benefit from our trying to make a difference. Yet to try to insure we will not be forgotten too often results in desperate manipulative strategies that are doomed to fail.
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William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.
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It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to die as individuals or as a species. Such a God, moreover, does not invite us to presume we can comprehend God's creation.
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Whatever it means for us to exist, we do so as creatures created, as the universe has been created, to glorify God.
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To know God's name is to know God.
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God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt. There is no God but this God.
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