Stanley Hauerwas

American theologian · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1940 · age 86

Stanley Martin Hauerwas is an American Protestant theologian, ethicist, and public intellectual.

Stanley Hauerwas is read about 80 times a day, in 16 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 22 June 2026

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2015“Ralph Wood argues quite persuasively that the Christian vision of the world is fundamentally comic.”In their wordsp. 217Read the whole statement

“Huebner observes that my use of laugher is my attempt to practice theology in a manner that refuses the attempt to manage the world.”In their wordsp. 217Read the whole statement

2006“John Howard Yoder makes the striking observation that after the Constantinian shift the meaning of the word "Christian" changes.”In their wordsp. 62Read the whole statement

“Jesus's poverty has made it possible for a people to exist who can live dispossessed of possessions.”In their wordsp. 62Read the whole statement

2001“We are willing to worship a God only if God makes us safe. Thus you get the silly question, How does a good God let bad things happen to good people?”In their words28 September 2001September 28Read the whole statement

1983“We must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire.”In their wordsFrom "The Servant Community: Christian Social Ethics" (1983) in The Hauerwas Reader (2001) eds. John Berkman and Michael CartwrightRead the whole statement

1940Born24 July 1940

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Stanley Hauerwas

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I do think, in spite of the considerable evidence to the contrary, that theology can and should be, in some of its modes, funny. Theology done right should make you laugh.
2015 · p. 217, Own words
The disciples ... are capable of peacemaking because they are sustained by the purity derived from having no other telos but to enact the kingdom embodied in Jesus.
2006 · pp. 62-63, Own words
Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians.
2001 · From "Why Gays (as a Group) are Morally Superior to Christians (as a Group)" in The Hauerwas Reader (2001) eds. John Berkman and Michael, Own words