Stanley M. Hauerwas

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America's Best Theologian according to Time Magazine (2001), though he rejected the title saying, "Best is not a theological category."

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Average rating: 4.07 · 1,881 ratings · 165 reviews · 65 distinct works

	Resident Aliens: Life in Christian Colony by Stanley M. Hauerwas, William H. Willimon 4.04 avg rating — 526 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Hauerwas Reader by Stanley M. Hauerwas, Michael G. Cartwright (Editor), John Berkman (Editor) 4.34 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir 4.21 avg rating — 144 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer In Christian Ethics 4.06 avg rating — 140 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Community Of Character: Philosophy 4.22 avg rating — 86 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness by Stanley M. Hauerwas, Jean Vanier 4.00 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations on the Seven Last Words 3.85 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Matthew 4.19 avg rating — 64 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	After Christendom? How the Church Is to Behave If Freedom, Justice, and a Christian Nation Are Bad Ideas 3.92 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence 3.73 avg rating — 48 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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“The courageous have fears that cowards never know.”
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“Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.”
― Stanley M. Hauerwas

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“Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.”
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