Stanley Hauerwas Quotes
Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.
Hauerwas, Stanley. A Cross-Shattered Church: Reclaiming the Theological Heart of Preaching. Brazos Press, 2009.
Clement of Alexandia was the first of the Christian theologians to consider and write about the birthday of Jesus, There was no celebration of Christ's birthday in the early centuries of Christianity. Clement offered seven dates in whuch he thought there was evidence of Christ's birthday. None of these was December 25. Christian celebration of the birthday of Christ did not take place until about the beginning of the 4th century. See the related Quotes for more about Jesus' Birthday.
Stanley Martin Hauerwas (born 1940) is an American theologian, ethicist, and public intellectual. Hauerwas was a longtime professor at Duke University, serving as the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School with a joint appointment at the Duke University School of Law. In the fall of 2014, he also assumed a chair in theological ethics at the University of Aberdeen. Before moving to Duke and the University of Aberdeen, Hauerwas taught at the University of Notre Dame. 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. He was also the first American theologian to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland in over forty years. His work is frequently read and debated by scholars in fields outside of religion or ethics, such as political philosophy, sociology, history, and literary theory. Hauerwas has achieved notability outside of academia as a public intellectual, even appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
