28 Facts About Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas is considered by many to be one of the world's most influential living theologians and was named "America's Best Theologian" by Time magazine in 2001.

Stanley Hauerwas was the first American theologian to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews in Scotland in over forty years.

Stanley Hauerwas's work is frequently read and debated by scholars in fields outside of religion or ethics, such as political philosophy, sociology, history, and literary theory.

Stanley Hauerwas has achieved notability outside of academia as a public intellectual, even appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Stanley Hauerwas is known for his fierce criticism of liberal democracy, capitalism, and militarism.

Stanley Hauerwas is a critic of both Christian fundamentalism and liberal Christianity.

Stanley Hauerwas is commonly cited as a member of the evangelical left.

Stanley Hauerwas was born in Dallas, Texas, on July 24,1940, and was raised in nearby Pleasant Grove, in a working-class family.

Stanley Hauerwas's family attended Pleasant Mound Methodist Church, where he experienced baptism, confirmation, and communion.

Stanley Hauerwas received a Bachelor of Arts degree there in 1962.

Stanley Hauerwas was a member of Phi Delta Theta while at Southwestern University.

Stanley Hauerwas went on to earn Bachelor of Divinity, Master of Arts, Master of Philosophy, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Yale University.

Stanley Hauerwas was later invited to assume a faculty position at the Divinity School of Duke University in 1983, where he taught in the area of theological ethics until his retirement in 2013, though he continues to write and speak at Duke as a senior research fellow.

In 2001 Stanley Hauerwas was invited to give the Gifford Lectures at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, which were published as With the Grain of the Universe, a text in which Stanley Hauerwas argued that Karl Barth was the foremost "natural theologian" of the Gifford Lectures.

For Stanley Hauerwas Barth argued that Christian convictions about the world describe God's good creation as it is while emphasizing that such convictions cannot be understood apart from Christian witness.

This, according to Stanley Hauerwas, is what makes Barth a proper natural theologian in comparison to Reinhold Niebuhr and William James, who were featured in the lectures.

Stanley Hauerwas has long been associated with narrative theology and postliberal theology.

Stanley Hauerwas's Reforming Christian Social Ethics: Ten Theses, published in 1981, serves to summarize the key presuppositions of his alternative to what was the dominant account in Christian ethics at that time.

Stanley Hauerwas collaborated with William H Willimon in 1989 to offer an accessible version of his vision of the Christian life in the book Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony.

Stanley Hauerwas is known as an ardent critic of liberal democracy.

In recent years Stanley Hauerwas has become conversant with the tradition of radical democracy.

In January 2017, Stanley Hauerwas wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post in which he argues that US President Donald Trump is an exemplar of American civil religion and distorted theology.

Stanley Hauerwas frequently discusses the work of both Niebuhr brothers, mentioning them in some form in most of his books.

In particular, Stanley Hauerwas argues that Reinhold Niebuhr was deeply influenced by William James, accepting a pragmatist epistemology.

Stanley Hauerwas continues his argument, stating that in this era, moral behavior became secondary to theological belief.

Stanley Hauerwas believes that this was the original point in which theology and ethics diverged.

One of the common messages that Stanley Hauerwas always seems to return to is the importance of the Church, some often calling his views ecclesiological.

Stanley Hauerwas believes that there is a difference between the concept of death and the criteria for death.