HauerwasQuotes

This is a profile dedicated to sharing the words of Stanley Hauerwas, who was named "America's Best Theologian" 17 years ago.

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"Take what I've said and don't argue further." https://t.co/avDY5DsQ69

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"We are tempted to think of debts in terms of psychological exchanges, but the debts we owe and are owed us... are as real as the next meal we eat." @radvoco @IncarnationDFW @Epidallas @BishopCurry @JustinWelby #Reconciliation #RadVacate #Hauerwas https://t.co/umNz3KR3fP

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"The willingness to be forgiven, which may require that I have my “enemy” tell me who I am, is the only way that that reconciliation can begin." @radvoco @IncarnationDFW @Epidallas @BishopCurry @JustinWelby #Reconciliation #RadVacate #Hauerwas https://t.co/umNz3KR3fP

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"To forgive and to be forgiven is not some crude exchange bargain to 'get on with life'." @radvoco @IncarnationDFW @Epidallas @BishopCurry @JustinWelby #Reconciliation #RadVacate #Hauerwas https://t.co/umNz3KR3fP

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Jesus "tells us we are obligated to go and confront the person whom we believe has sinned against us." @radvoco @IncarnationDFW @Epidallas @BishopCurry @JustinWelby #Reconciliation #RadVacate #Hauerwas https://t.co/umNz3KR3fP

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The Church is "a community that cannot afford to overlook one another’s sins because so doing keeps the community from embodying the life of grace." @radvoco @IncarnationDFW @Epidallas @BishopCurry @JustinWelby #Reconciliation #RadVacate #Hauerwas https://t.co/umNz3KR3fP

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"Excommunication is a call to come home by undergoing the appropriate penance." @radvoco @IncarnationDFW @Epidallas @BishopCurry @JustinWelby #Reconciliation #RadVacate #Hauerwas https://t.co/umNz3KR3fP

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"Excommunication is... an attempt to help them see that they have become a stumbling block and are therefore already out of the church." @radvoco @IncarnationDFW @Epidallas @BishopCurry @JustinWelby #Reconciliation #RadVacate #Hauerwas https://t.co/umNz3KR3fP

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"If we fail to challenge one another in our sins, we in fact abandon one another to our sin." @radvoco @IncarnationDFW @Epidallas @BishopCurry @JustinWelby #Reconciliation #RadVacate #Hauerwas https://t.co/umNz3KR3fP

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"Jesus insists that those who would follow him cannot let sins go unchallenged." @radvoco @IncarnationDFW @Epidallas @BishopCurry @JustinWelby #Reconciliation #RadVacate #Hauerwas https://t.co/umNz3KR3fP

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"Jesus... assumes that conflict is not to be ignored or denied, but rather conflict, which may involve sin, is to be forced into the open." @radvoco @IncarnationDFW @Epidallas @BishopCurry @JustinWelby #Reconciliation #RadVacate #Hauerwas https://t.co/umNz3KR3fP