198 Quotes by Stanley Hauerwas

We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get the kind of god we need; that is, a god after our own likeness.

Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that.

War is America's central liturgical act necessary to renew our sense that we are a nation unlike other nations.

Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection.

Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that threatened to consume her. Israel, who would be tempted by the idolatrous presumption she possessed God's name, rightly never forgot she could not say God's name.

I should like to think how we write as theologians would reflect our confidence in the One who makes that writing possible. That is one of the reasons, moreover, that the scriptures remain paradigmatic for how we are to write.

The very fact that we find it hard to conceive of an alternative to limitless economic growth is an indication of our spiritual condition.