Author: Stanley Hauerwas

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Reformation names the disunity in which we currently stand. We who remain in the Protestant tradition want to say that Reformation was a success.

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

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

- Stanley Hauerwas

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

- Stanley Hauerwas

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.

- Stanley Hauerwas

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

The desire for money may be an indication of greed, but I want to argue that greed is a much more subtle vice than simply the desire to be rich.

- Stanley Hauerwas

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

- Stanley Hauerwas

I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.

I do not want to convince Christians to work for the abolition of war, but rather I want us to live recognizing that in the cross of Christ, war has been abolished.

- Stanley Hauerwas

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

- Stanley Hauerwas

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