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Stanley Hauerwas

A collection of 8 posts

MTS-07: Hauerwas on Bell

MTS-07: Hauerwas on Bell

Discussed on May 6, 2013, with Stanley Hauerwas as part of my MTS Thesis Proposal. Source: Daniel Bell, Just War as Christian Discipleship (Brazos, 2009) Discussion Prompt Daniel Bell's book[1] is an important work that attempts to re-center the tradition of just war on the church

"A Rationally Disorganized Temporary Witness: Stanley Hauerwas (on Politics, Theology, and Democracy)"

"A Rationally Disorganized Temporary Witness: Stanley Hauerwas (on Politics, Theology, and Democracy)"

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

"That You May See What You Are: Rhetorical Characters in the Letters of Augustine of Hippo and Sulpicius Severus"

"That You May See What You Are: Rhetorical Characters in the Letters of Augustine of Hippo and Sulpicius Severus"

Submitted on April 23, 2013, to Stanley Hauerwas and Sean Larsen in partial fulfillment of Philosophical Theology 958 (CT958): Truthfulness, Rhetoric, and Irony. Over the course of this class, we have explored truthfulness in relation to classical rhetoric. Through a variety of writers, we have learned about the forensic, ceremonial,

"One Violent Son of A Bitch: Hauerwasian Ecclesiology as Radically Finite Democracy"

"One Violent Son of A Bitch: Hauerwasian Ecclesiology as Radically Finite Democracy"

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

MTS-05: Hauerwas on McClendon

MTS-05: Hauerwas on McClendon

Discussed on January 24, 2013, with Stanley Hauerwas as part of my MTS Thesis Proposal. Source: James McClendon, Biography as Theology (Wipf and Stock, 2002) Discussion Prompt James McClendon's central claim throughout his Biography as Theology is that "The truth of faith is made good in the

MTS-03: Hauerwas on York

MTS-03: Hauerwas on York

Discussed on October 17, 2012, with Stanley Hauerwas as part of my MTS Thesis Proposal. Source: Tripp York, The Purple Crown (Wipf & Stock, 2020) Discussion Prompt Tripp York suggests that martyrdom "is the political act because it represents the ultimate imitation of Christ."[1] It is easily

MTS-01: Hauerwas on Yoder

MTS-01: Hauerwas on Yoder

Discussed on September 25, 2012, with Stanley Hauerwas as part of my MTS Thesis Proposal. Sources: John Howard Yoder; * The Christian Witness to the State (Herald, 2007) * Body Politics (Herald, 1992) Prompt for Discussion John Howard Yoder's The Christian Witness to the State (1964) and Body Politics (1992)

MTS Thesis Proposal

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MTS Thesis Proposal

*Originally developed with Stanley Hauerwas and J. Warren Smith in September 2012, including seven recorded discussions. By Vow and Virtue Alike: A Narrative Challenge to Just War Propositions War in Western Christian traditions was thought to be understood as a moral quandary, answered by applying various criteria from what is