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• 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.

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  Order, Names, Interesting

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• No powers determine our lives more completely than those we think we have under our control. I

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  Thinking, Determine, Our Lives

  Stanley Hauerwas (2004). “Naming the Silences”, p.11, A&C Black

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• [W]e must first experience the kingdom if we are even to know what kind of freedom and what kind of equality we should desire. Christian freedom lies in service, Christian equality is equality before God, and neither can be achieved through the coercive efforts of liberal idealists who would transform the world into their image.

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  Christian, Lying, Effort

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• To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.

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  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Skills

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.302, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• 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.

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  Sentimental, Belief, Christ

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• I fear that much of the Christianity that surrounds us assumes our task is to save appearances by protecting God from Job-like anguish. But if God is the God of Jesus Christ, then God does not need our protection. What God demands is not protection, but truth.

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  Jesus, Jobs, Doe

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.73, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

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  Reflection, Complaining, Economic

  "Can Greed Be a Good?". www.abc.net.au. June 09, 2010.

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• Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.

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  Christian, Training, Dying

  "Abortion: Theologically Understood". lifewatch.org. February 1991.

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• If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism.

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  Thinking, Names, United States

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• Saints cannot exist without a community

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  Community, Saint

  Stanley Hauerwas (2010). “Christian Existence Today: Essays on Church, World, and Living in Between”, p.103, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• 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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  Jesus, Believe, People

  Stanley Hauerwas (2007). “Matthew (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible)”, p.37, Brazos Press

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• My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.

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  Jobs, Father, Use

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.46, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.

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  War, Mean, Land

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• Civil religion is the attempt to empower religion, not for the good of religion, but for the creation of the citizen.

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  Empowering, Citizens, Creation

  Stanley Hauerwas (2014). “Approaching the End: Eschatological Reflection on Church, Politics and Life”, p.69, SCM Press

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• From the perspective of the one committing suicide, his or her act can be one of the most perverse forms of moral manipulation, as it abandons those left behind to their shame, guilt, and grief. Suicide is something like a metaphysical "I gotcha!" It is often an attempt to kill or wound others.

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  Suicide, Grief, Perspective

  Stanley Hauerwas (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.591, Duke University Press

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• 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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  Christian, People, Church

  Stanley Hauerwas (2001). “The Hauerwas Reader”, p.521, Duke University Press

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• I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

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  Catholic, Church, Sensibility

  Stanley Hauerwas (2013). “Approaching the End: Eschatological Reflections on Church, Politics, and Life”, p.98, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• 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.

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  Commitment, Roles, May

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• I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

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  Delight, Postmodernism, Controversy

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• I am often criticized, or at least questions are raised, about what appears to be the absence of the Holy Spirit in my work.

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  Spirit, Absence, Holy

  Stanley Hauerwas (2015). “The Work of Theology”, p.32, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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