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.”
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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”.
Abortion, Theologically Understood, Taskforce of United Methodists (Hauerwas, 1991)
“I wanted to read that sermon because I suspect that most of you ministers have not preached about abortion. You have not preached about abortion because you have not had the slightest idea about how to do it in a way that would not make everyone in your congregation mad. And the reason that you have not known how to preach a sermon on abortion is that you thought that you would have to take up the terms that are given by the wider society.”
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.”
War, Peace & Jean Bethke Elshtain (Hauerwas, 2003, with Paul J. Griffiths)
“Jean Bethke Elshtain is rightly admired for her courage, for her trenchant critiques of peculiarly American pathologies, and for the wisdom of her political judgment. We think, however, that her current attempt morally to justify the Bush presidency’s “war against terrorism” along with its entire National Security Strategy”in Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World (Basic, 2003)”is nothing more than an uncritical justification of the ideology of America as empire. It is itself a deeply ideological work rather than one of careful and critical thought.”
The Importance of Being Catholic: A Protestant View (Hauerwas, 1990)
“Catholicism is more than “doctrine” and theological reflection on doctrine. Rather it is habits and practices that take a lifetime to understand.”
The Splendor of Truth: A Symposium [with David Burrell] (Hauerwas, 1994)
“The Pope’s manner of argument promises to shift the character of the discussion for those more interested in extending it than in defending themselves. And it does so by being—despite its length—an inspiring text. (When that can be said of moral theology we are indeed on the threshold of something new.) What makes it new is the method employed: begin with Scripture, show how rational argument contributes to faith seeking understanding, and return to a church life and practice informed by Scripture. Jesus, not “natural law,” is the paradigm throughout”