Stanley Hauerwas What can you tell me about him ?
Stanley Hauerwas What can you tell me about him ? The Good, the bad and the Ugly.
I know nothing about .Stanley Hauerwas
Is he worth reading? What would be good starter? What is his theology? So many questions.
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Hauerwas is definitely worth reading. Wikipedia is a good article on him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Hauerwas I tend to think of him as non-denominational in the sense that he draws from a variety of theological traditions. I first ran into his work through his work on narrative theology but he's probably best known for his work in ethics. In my opinion he's the best contemporary theologist dealing with contemporary issues of medical ethics. http://stanleyhauerwas.blogspot.com/ is a site that gives links to some of his work so you can get a sense of his thinking,
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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I've read some of him, but not comprehensively.
You might want to be aware that he swears. In my opinion he is rather leftist. He seems to put ecclesiology and social issues above everything else.It's no wonder, since he's an ethicist.
He is brutally honest about what he thinks (that might be why he swears). I am basically a similar personality type to him, and I confess that it's not necessarily a virtue.
He is quite popular nowadays, because his message, in my opinion sounds good to the postmodern ear. I used to be one of those who liked his kind of talk.
Personally, I object to his swearing the most. In my opinion it shows something about you if you swear. Ordinarily, I wouldn't mind. But his is a teacher, a lot of people listen to him, so I think I should use discernment. If I want to hear people swearing, I'll go down to the local bar. If I want to hear Christian teaching, I will find someone who can control themselves more than me, more mature than me in the use of the tongue and other things. Which is why the Lord always has me read James over and over....
Hauerwas fans: Please don't be angry with me. It's just an opinion. I hope we can agree to disagree amicably. [:)] In brotherly love.
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P A said:
I know nothing about .Stanley Hauerwas
Is he worth reading?
I'd say yes, he is. I read his classic "Resident Aliens" a while ago in a used paper copy (note it's not in the collection) and it really makes one think about our oftentimes complacent Christian life as opposed to a potential counter-culture living of followers of Jesus.
Some snippets that I marked up in my book, arbitrarily opened at pages 28/29 where he discusses the end of Contantinian Christendom:
"That which makes the Church 'radical' and forever 'new' is not that the church tends to lean toward the left on most social issues, but rather that the church knows Jesus wheras the world does not."
"In Barth we discovered the New Testament assertion that the purpose of theological endeavour is not to describe the world in terms that make sense, but rather to change lives .... God, not nations, rules the world"
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"the failure of the old answers, seen now more clearly by the glow of the furnaces of Dachau and the fires of Hiroshima, demanded new questions. The world had shifted. Mainline American Protestantism, as is often the case, plodded wearily along as if nothing had changed." (unlike Rob Bell, this is text within a paragrpah, not a paragraph per every five words or so)
Have joy in the Lord!
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Kendall Sholtess said:
Personally, I object to his swearing the most. In my opinion it shows something about you if you swear. Ordinarily, I wouldn't mind. But his is a teacher, a lot of people listen to him, so I think I should use discernment. If I want to hear people swearing, I'll go down to the local bar. If I want to hear Christian teaching, I will find someone who can control themselves more than me, more mature than me in the use of the tongue and other things. Which is why the Lord always has me read James over and over....
But that's where lots of Postmoderns have a Church service, in a bar![:^)]
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Kendall Sholtess said:
In my opinion he is rather leftist.
Wikipedia refers to him as a leftist Evangelical.[:D]
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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MJ. Smith said:Kendall Sholtess said:
In my opinion he is rather leftist.
Wikipedia refers to him as a leftist Evangelical.
[:D][:D]
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