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  <name><![CDATA[Stanley Hauerwas]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Stanley Hauerwas (born July 24, 1940) is a Christian theologian and ethicist. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame and is currently the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School with a joint appointment at the Duke University School of Law.

Education and Influences
Hauerwas received a Ph.D. from Yale University and an honorary D.D. from the University of Edinburgh.

At Yale Divinity School, Hauerwas came under the influence of James Gustafson, one of the more well-known students of H. Richard Niebuhr. This contact distinctly colored his perception of Niebuhr, despite his dependence upon The Meaning of Revelation and The Responsible Self.

Later, while teaching at Notre Dame, Hauerwas discovered Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder's work, which critiques the work of Reinhold Niebuhr whom Hauerwas frequently criticizes. Hauerwas frequently has drawn upon Yoder to question the modern philosophical foundations for just war thinking. Yoder is perhaps Hauerwas' greatest influence and he notes that his reading of Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer's The Cost of Discipleship is probably the reason that Yoder's work so resonated with him.

Hauerwas has also been deeply influenced by Catholic philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who uses Thomist thought regarding virtue ethics to critique modern and postmodern culture.

Career
In his career, he has attempted to emphasize the importance of virtue and character within the Church. He has been an outspoken Christian pacifist and has vigorously promoted nonviolence. Hauerwas has also been an opponent of nationalism, particularly American patriotism, arguing that it has no place in the Church.

His theological writings occasionally veer into the area of paleo-orthodoxy, and he has also been associated with the narrative theology movement, which he learned in the 1960s at Yale Divinity School.

Honors
TIME Magazine in 2001 named him &quot;America's Best Theologian&quot;. He responded by saying &quot;Best is not a theological category.&quot;

That same year, he was invited to give the Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews in Scotland, which were published as With the Grain of the Universe, (ISBN 1-58743-016-9) a text in which Karl Barth's interpretation of St. Anselm's analogy of faith was featured. In 1997 he gave the Scottish Journal of Theology lectures at Aberdeen, published as Sanctify Them in Truth (1998).

He speaks frequently at churches throughout North America, and gave the Slater-Maguire Lecture at St. Margaret's Anglican Church in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 2006.

Religious affiliation
Hauerwas has been self-identified with the United Methodist Church for the bulk of his career. Yet in the introduction to Performing the Faith he notes that he now worships at The Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal Church in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Additionally, Hauerwas was influential in the formation of the Ekklesia Project, a multi-denominational Christian &quot;think tank&quot; and renewal group.
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  <title><![CDATA[Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Hauerwas Reader]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer In Christian Ethics]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations on the Seven Last Words]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[After Christendom? How the Church Is to Behave If Freedom, Justice, and a Christian Nation Are Bad Ideas]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Living Gently in a Violent World: The Prophetic Witness of Weakness]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Matthew]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Unleashing the Scripture: Freeing the Bible from Captivity to America]]></title>
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