Submitted as a final paper April 29, 2013, to Luke Bretherton in partial fulfillment of Christian Theology 837: Christianity and Democracy (CT837). Stanley Hauerwas has been called “Best Theologian” by Time magazine, but it is a title he rejects outright. His polemic style of writing would lead one to presume

Submitted March 21, 2013, to Luke Bretherton in partial fulfillment of Christian Theology 837: Christianity and Democracy (CT837). Stanley Hauerwas grew up in Texas being groomed for bricklaying, about the farthest thing from the philosophical theology he ended up pursuing. Educated at Yale and associated with the post-liberal and