04 article | Theology and Ethics

Preaching As Though We Had Enemies (Hauerwas, 1995)

By Stanley Hauerwas 25 April, 2016 14 March, 2018

“Christians in modernity thought their task was to make the Gospel intelligible to the world rather than to help the world understand why it could not be intelligible without the Gospel.”

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Remembering John Howard Yoder (1927-1997), (Hauerwas, 1998)

By Stanley Hauerwas 25 April, 2016 14 March, 2018

“Yet like it or not John changed my life, and I think he ought to be held accountable for that. Reading Yoder made me a pacifist. It did so because John taught me that nonviolence was not just another “moral issue” but constitutes the heart of our worship of a crucified messiah.”

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Karl Barth, Dogmatics In Outline (1947) (Hauerwas, 2000)

By Stanley Hauerwas 25 April, 2016 14 March, 2018

“Barth understood that recovering Christian speech is work and it is a work that the world literally cannot live without. The heart of Barth’s theology is the presumption that if we get God wrong, we get everything wrong: our politics, our science, our art, our very lives”.

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Sept 11th: A Pacifist Response (Hauerwas, 2002)

By Stanley Hauerwas 25 April, 2016 14 March, 2018

“But what does a pacifist have to say in the face of the terror September 11, 2001, names? I vaguely knew when I first declared I was a pacifist that there might be some serious consequences. To be nonviolent might even change my life. But I do not really think I understood what that change might entail until September 11”.

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A Complex God (Hauerwas, 2001)

By Stanley Hauerwas 25 April, 2016 14 March, 2018

“Even if the culprit is Osama bin Laden, and we track him down, and we kill him and destroy his network, he’s won.
That’s because he is ready to die, and the people who support him are ready to die. Americans aren’t ready to die”.