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Stanley Hauerwas
Stanley Hauerwas teaches theological ethics at Duke University. His forthcoming book is Fully Alive: The Apocalyptic Humanism of Karl Barth (University of Virginia Press).
The dangers of providing pastoral care
Woundedness is the predictable price we pay for being sent on outrageous assignments by Jesus.
July 27, 2021
Do politics belong in church?
11 pastors and theologians weigh in
September 24, 2018
Books about living well
Insights from three scholars and one shepherd
November 20, 2017
A reply: Resident Aliens at 25
We gather that some of our readers still don't want to talk Christology with us. But it's because of Jesus that the church has trouble in the world.
September 22, 2014
Untamed Jesus
In these short talks, Gerhard Lohfink revisits themes from Jesus and Community. His account of Jesus is determinatively eschatological.
August 12, 2014
The Sacredness of Human Life, by David P. Gushee
David Gushee’s attempt to define and defend the concept of the sacredness of life is a welcome reminder of why it is so important that we not take for granted the protections that surround our live...
April 22, 2013
What war does to warriors
Karl Marlantes's new book is not fiction, but it develops the idea of his novel Matterhorn: that war provides a
sense of transcendence that can be found nowhere else.
December 19, 2011
Knowledge through suffering
It takes a lifetime, as well as a remarkable life, to write a book like Eleonore Stump's Wandering in Darkness.
October 17, 2011
A review of Defending Constantine
Asking me to write a review of Peter Leithart's defense of Emperor Constantine may seem like asking the fox to inspect the henhouse....
October 12, 2010
Stanley Hauerwas: 5 picks
We posed this question to eight theologians: Suppose someone told you they haven’t been keeping up with theology for the past 25 years. Now they want to read the most important books in theology that were written during that time. What five titles would you suggest?
October 3, 2010
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Learning from others: The formation of a theologian
I started to write when I was teaching at Augustana College, but after moving to the University of Notre Dame in 1970 I really began to put words on paper....
May 18, 2010

The Eucharist and Ecumenism: Let Us Keep the Feast
We Christians are a people divided by what unites us....
October 20, 2009


A place for God?
Had I been able to read Larry Witham’s book before I delivered ...
February 20, 2006