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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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Stanley Hauerwas
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 24
Ethicist
Peace Activist
Philosopher
Theologian
Dallas
Texas
Stanley Martin Hauerwas
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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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Christians know that Christianity is simply extended training in dying early. That is what we have always been about.
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Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one's body shaped, one's habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.
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To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.
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The narratives of Scripture were not meant to describe our world ... but to change the world, including the one in which we now live.
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I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
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Gentleness is given to those who have learned that God will not have his kingdom triumph through the violence of the world, for such a triumph came through the meekness of a cross.
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I have come to think that the challenge confronting Christians is not that we do not believe what we say, though that can be a problem, but that what we say we believe does not seem to make any difference for either the church or the world.
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The lives of the saints are the hermeneutical key to Scripture.
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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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I simply cannot get over what a surprising and wonderful life God has given me.
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Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.
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It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.
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The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never achieve through social coercion or governmental action. We serve the world by showing it something that it is not, namely, a place where God is forming a family out of strangers.
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