tweetmeme_url = " tweetmeme_source = "tweetmeme"; The Work of the People has recently released snippets of their forthcoming film on Stanley Hauerwas.  Here two of those snippets on our fear of dying alone and on sentimentality: Aloneness from The Work Of The People on Vimeo. Sentimentality from The Work Of The People on Vimeo. There also are two other excellent ...

... Theologian's Memoir (Eerdmans). Dr. Hauerwas is Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics ... Preaching (Brazos Press, 2009). Stanley Hauerwas & Jean Vanier: Living Gently ... Reconciliation) (InterVarsity Press, 2008). Stanley Hauerwas and Romand Coles: Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical ...

There has been little time this week to offer something on the website here. I found this helpful from The Work of the People. Hauerwas gives his thoughts on worship, liturgy and the church growth movement. I hope to have the Friday photo up tomorrow and may still get to a podcast on the Scriptures for Sunday. Also working on an interaction with Mohler’s recent review of John Franke’s ...

I’ve been preparing for Advent both in my ministry and in my personal life, and as I was doing some cursory studying, I came across this video of theologian Stanley Hauerwas ruminating on the nature of Advent. Enjoy. “Learning how to wait as a people of nonviolence in a world of war, you’ll know what Advent is. Advent is patience. It’s how God has made us a people of ...

... from understanding how deeply we are captured by its account of existence." (From his essay, "Reforming Christian Social Ethics: Ten Theses", 1981) It goes without saying that Hauerwas here is not contrasting the "liberalism" of the Democrats with the supposed "conservatism" of the Republicans. Rather, he is assuming that both parties and most Christians have ...

Contentious Lord, God know you must love a good argument. How else are we to explain the people of your promise, the Jews? Moreover, you have told us that our salvation come from those argumentative people, a people threatened by the world, yet refusing to be distracted from their arguments with you and one another

It is by no means the first time since it was first preached in 1995 that this sermon for Reformation Sunday, by Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School, has been posted online. However, just now, as Anglicans of various hue are considering whether and how to respond positively to Anglicanorum coetibus, I would suggest that it provides helpful

you absolutely must go to this link, to see the most amazing painting ever. actually it makes me throw up a little in my mouth. "'Communal allegiance to Christ and his Kingdom is the indispensable check upon the pretentions of the modern state. Because Christ is Lord, Caesar is not Lord. By humbling all secular claims to sovereignty, the Church makes its most important political ...

Read Danny Kam's review of A Peaceable Kingdom by Stanley Hauerwas. "The basic thesis of Hauerwas’ book is the possibility of the church being a social ethic (rather than 'having' a social ethic) through an understanding of Israel ... suggest the book highly enough to people of all theological traditions. Hauerwas has made one of the classical arguments for Christian non- ...

... I grant is a sad and lamentable truism, in many respects.) Anyway. I've always been attracted to what Stanley Hauerwas once said about Protestantism - that it is a 'protest movement within the church catholic' (hence what the word ... s not to say we all are destined to return to Rome some day (in the same breath Hauerwas says 'don't run off to Rome; there's no Rome to run to&# ...

... the question, "Is nationalism good, or bad?" And from respected sources such as C.S. Lewis and Stanley Hauerwas (Dietrich Bonhoeffer probably being closer to Hauerwas than Lewis) you will again get varying answers. Of course all recognize that any nation-state can demand of its citizens or subjects that which only God can demand of them, and ...

Here are some beautiful reflections on advent from Stanley Hauerwas. I found this video to be very moving, and a wonderful beginning to my own personal preparation for the season of Advent. Enjoy. more about “The Work of ... pastor Rhett Smith, who found it on Jake Bouma’s blog. Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Advent, Christianity, Jesus, Nonviolence, pacifism, peace, Stanley Hauerwas

In listening to a message by Stanley Hauerwas the other day, he used a similar phrase over and over again. He was emphasizing the call of Christians and the Church to stand out...to live ... of the world toward the direction of Christ. He mentioned several ways this can be done. Obviously, since the talk was not only from Hauerwas, but about Bonhoeffer & Yoder; Pacifism & non-violence were ...

Quotation of the Week: Q: So every Christian is called to be a pacifist? A: Yes, absolutely. Q: So how do you respond to people who say that’s unrealistic? A: Try lifelong monogamous fidelity in marriage. Do you think that’s realistic? Yet we do it. I’m not terribly cowed by the charge of being unrealistic. From an RNS interview with Stanley Hauerwas

... century theology.  What little I know about modern theology, for the most part, I've had to learn on my own...after seminary of all things.  Names like Bultmann, Yoder, Moltmann, Hauerwas, Tillich, Forsyth, Ellul, Rahner, and even Wright are names and work I've really only become familiar with post-seminary.  I am somewhat familiar with Barth - I mean any seminary not at ...