#hauerwas

[theinwardlight]

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.

Stanley Hauerwas, Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

[theinwardlight]

We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God's kingdom transcend those of Caesar, and that the main political task of the church is the formation of people who see clearly the cost of discipleship and are willing to pay the price.

Stanley Hauerwas & William H. Willimon, Resident Aliens

[digitaldion]

'This distance between how we live and what we know to be true is painful and tempts us to change the truth rather than change our lives.’

- Hauerwas, Stanley. The Character of Virtue: Letters to a Godson.

[jkoessler]

Other Words: Four More Cries from the Cross

The last word my mother ever spoke to me was “No.” She spoke it repeatedly as she lay in a hospital bed. Her cry was a spontaneous act of resistance, an expression of outrage against the impending dissolution of death. The last thing my father said to me was, “I love you.” He, too, was in a hospital bed, and his words were also a reflex of sorts. Despite his discomfort, it was an automatic…

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[digitaldion]

‘As [Jonathan] Tran memorably states, because Christians have learned to tell time doxologically they are not allowed to do nothing but rather they believe they can do anything. In particular Tran argues that the Eucharistic memory that shapes all Christian worship “makes possible the impossibility of forgiveness and that presages a politics of memory revolutionary in a world fixed on revenge/forgetting.”.’

- Stanley Hauerwas, ‘How to tell time theologically’ (in ‘The work of theology’, 2015:100)

[digitaldion]

‘To be kind in a violent world is very dangerous, but fortunately you will discover you were destined to be kind... Our gentle God created our kind to be kind by making it impossible for us to exist without caring for those both like and unlike us.’

- Stanley Hauerwas, The Character of Virtue

[digitaldion]

“...to be a hopeful person means you rightly will want the world in which you find yourself to be a better one... But you’ll have to be patient, courageous, and imaginative for that hope to be more than a fantasy.”

- Stanley Hauerwas, On the virtue of Hope in, ‘The character of virtue’

[digitaldion]

All the time in the world

'End of All Our Beginnings, Lord of time, who alone makes time a gift, remind us we are creatures with a beginning. We confess we often forget we are your timeful creatures. We fear the forgetfulness our death beckons. We are driven frantically to work, thinking we can ensure we will not be forgotten, ensure our own place in time. How silly we must look to you, ants building anthills to no purpose. Help us take joy and rest in your time, eucharistic time, a time redeemed through Jesus’ resurrection, that we can rest easy in our dying. You have given us all the time in the world. May we take pleasure in it. AMEN.'

- Stanley Hauerwas, (2003). Prayers Plainly Spoken (p. 31). Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers.