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Stanley Hauerwas, born on July 24, 1940, is an American theologian known for his work in Christian ethics, social theory, and political philosophy. His research focuses on the intersection of these fields, and he is renowned for his emphasis on Christian pacifism and embodiment. Hauerwas's work has had a profound impact on contemporary theology and social theory.

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“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.”

People Stories Community Habit Saint Preserves Unfaithful

Book:Critical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' Theology of Disability: Disabling Society, Enabling Theology

Source: Critical Reflections on Stanley Hauerwas' Theology of Disability: Disabling Society, Enabling Theology

“A social order bent on producing wealth as an end in itself cannot avoid the creation of a people whose souls are superficial and whose daily life is captured by sentimentalities. They will ask questions like “why does a good God let bad things happen to good people ” such people cannot imagine that a people once existed who produced and sang the psalms. If we learn to say “God ” we will do so with the prayer “My God my God why have you forsaken me?”

Source: Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

“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.”

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Book:In Good Company: The Church as Polis

Source: In Good Company: The Church as Polis

“Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you.”

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Book:The Hauerwas Reader

Source: The Hauerwas Reader

“The movement that Jesus begins is constituted by people who believe that they have all the time in the world, made possible by God’s patience, to challenge the world’s impatient violence by cross and resurrection.”

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Book:Matthew (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)

Source: Matthew (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)

“Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.”

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Author:Stanley Hauerwas

“Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.”

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Author:Stanley Hauerwas