Stanley Hauerwas

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Stanley Hauerwas is an influential American theologian and ethicist known for his work on virtue ethics, the role of the church as an alternative community, and the critique of liberalism within Christian moral theology.

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instanceOf Christian ethicist
academic
person
theologian
academicDegree Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Divinity
PhD in theology
awardReceived Gifford Lectures (delivered 2001–2002)
linked to: Gifford Lectures

Named "America’s best theologian" by Time magazine in 2001
coAuthorWith William H. Willimon
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1940-07-24
doctrine Christian pacifism
nonviolence as central to Christian ethics
educatedAt Southwestern University
Yale Divinity School
Yale University
employer Duke University
University of Notre Dame
fieldOfWork Christian ethics
moral philosophy
political theology
theology
virtue ethics
fullName Stanley Martin Hauerwas
linked to: Stanley Hauerwas
influenced contemporary Christian ethics
ecclesiology
political theology
influencedBy Alasdair MacIntyre
Aristotle
John Howard Yoder
Karl Barth
Reinhold Niebuhr
knownFor critique of liberalism in Christian ethics
emphasis on the church as an alternative community
narrative theology
pacifist Christian ethics
virtue ethics in Christian moral theology
language English
notableWork A Community of Character
After Christendom?
Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir
Resident Aliens
The Peaceable Kingdom
With the Grain of the Universe
placeOfBirth Dallas, Texas, United States
linked to: Dallas, Texas
positionHeld Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School
linked to: Stanley Hauerwas

Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law
Professor of Theology and Ethics at the University of Notre Dame
religion Christianity
theologicalTradition Methodist
linked to: Methodism
view Christian ethics is grounded in the narrative of Jesus and the church
liberal individualism is incompatible with Christian discipleship
the church should be a distinct, alternative polis

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Christian pacifism historicalProponent Stanley Hauerwas
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