Embodiment
Grace and Nature
Politics & Human Destiny
Response to Papers by Meilaender
Tag: 05 moral theology
The Ethicist as Theologian (Hauerwas, 1975)
“I did not become an ethicist because my primary interest was social change or particular moral “issues.” Rather, I became an ethicist because I was (and am) interested in the intellectual issues associated with the truthfulness of Christian discourse.”
The Testament of Friends (Hauerwas, 1990)
“I am genuinely unsure how my mind has changed over the 22 years I have been teaching and writing.”
Discipleship As A Craft, Church As A Disciplined Community (Hauerwas, 1991)
“The church seems caught in an irresolvable tension today. Insofar as we are able to maintain any presence in modern society we do so by being communities of care. Any attempt to be a disciplined and disciplining community seems antithetical to being a community of care. As a result the care the church gives, while often quite impressive and compassionate, lacks the rationale to build the church as a community capable of standing against the powers we confront”.
When The Politics of Jesus Makes A Difference (Hauerwas, 1993)
“Yoder may well help us to use the remaining resources of that tradition to help Christians rediscover ways to serve our non-Christian brothers and sisters by being unwavering in our commitment to the politics of Jesus”.
A Theologian For These Times? Review of Hauerwas, With the Grain of the Universe (Marsh, 2002)
“So fierce is Hauerwas’s protest against Niebuhr that any concession on pacifism is taken as an offense against the nonviolent God of Jesus Christ”.
Confessions of A Mennonite Camp Follower (Hauerwas, 2000)
“When I described myself as a “high church Mennonite” many years ago I was not kidding.”
The Virtues of Alasdair MacIntyre (Hauerwas, 2007)
“MacIntyre has sought, within the world we necessarily inhabit, to help us recover resources to enable us to act intelligibly. From beginning to end, he has attempted to help us locate those forms of life that can sustain lives well lived.”