Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross. Stanley Hauerwas More Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas More Quotes From Stanley Hauerwas 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. Stanley Hauerwas roles may commitment Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen. Stanley Hauerwas empowering creation citizens I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism. Stanley Hauerwas postmodernism controversy delight 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. Stanley Hauerwas church christian people Christians are nonviolent not, therefore, because we believe that nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but because nonviolence is constitutive of what it means to be a disciple to Jesus. Stanley Hauerwas strategy war believe world I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it. Stanley Hauerwas you fake morning night 'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work. Stanley Hauerwas finished cry done work I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.' Stanley Hauerwas mother-and-father born mother father 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 understand reflection faith ideas 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. Stanley Hauerwas live will try hope A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape. Stanley Hauerwas never go death way We Protestants automatically assume that the Pharisees are the Catholics. They are the self-righteous people who have made Christianity a form of legalistic religion, thereby destroying the free grace of the Gospel. We Protestants are the tax collectors, knowing that we are sinners and that our lives depend upon God's free grace. Stanley Hauerwas grace god people religion 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. Stanley Hauerwas story you christian world 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. Stanley Hauerwas name person just think Undergraduate life on college campuses tends in the direction of neopagan excess. Stanley Hauerwas direction excess college life The idea is that Jesus overcame death through the Resurrection. What that does is fail to appreciate the fact that the resurrected Christ is the crucified Christ. It's not like, 'Oh, that was just a mistake, now it's over.' Jesus continues to suffer from our sins. Stanley Hauerwas like appreciate mistake death One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love. Stanley Hauerwas problems law love-is love 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. Stanley Hauerwas war believe way world I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my early teens. Stanley Hauerwas old i-am being worry When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection. Stanley Hauerwas no-sense sense love death
