Talk:Stanley Hauerwas

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The presentation of Hauerwas's thinking here is quite unbalanced. "Human experimentation" is not a theme in his thinking that could rival for example Christian non-violence, the church, "liberalism", mental disabilities, or the development of Christian ethics in America in importance. All these, and some more should have their own subheadings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Phagman (talk • contribs) 09:56, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

I'm changing the claim that he is now an Anglican because he does not identify himself as an Anglican, just that he now worships with the Anglicans. A subtle distinction to be sure but perhaps more accurate (unless there is another reference that I'm not aware of other than in the introduction to Performing the faith). Kevin Rector (talk) 20:34, 21 February 2009 (UTC)


 * I am a divinity student at Duke and I went to a lecture of his two weeks ago and he referred to himself as an Anglican. He of course grew up Methodist and teaches at a Methodist seminary.  You can get the lecture on Duke Divinity School's website.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.134.30.36 (talk) 03:48, 12 November 2009 (UTC)   The lecture is called "Being a Christian in Today's World."


 * Very well, if that's the case, and since the article belongs to the categories "American Episcopalians" and "Converts to Anglicanism", why doesn't it say when - or even that - he converted? yoyo (talk) 04:51, 6 August 2012 (UTC)

How can there be no discussion of Karl Barth or Yoder on here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.134.30.36 (talk) 20:52, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

"First American to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures in over forty years"
This claim seems to be grounded in the following citation from http://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives/062102/062102a.htm

"Last year, Hauerwas became the first U.S. theologian in 40 years to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures at Scotland’s St. Andrews University."

There are two problems with the Wikipedia article. First, it doesn't preserve the meaning of the original NatCath article. The NatCath article says Hauerwas is the first US Theologian to deliver the Gifford Lectures, the Wiki article says he is the first American (in other words, the theologian distinction drops out). But other Americans had given the lectures at St. Andrews within 40 years (in fact, within 10 years!) of Hauerwas, including Bob and Marilyn Adams (1999) and Nicholas Wolterstorff, in 1995. The NatCath article also specifies that Hauerwas was the first US theologian in 40 years to give the Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews but this distinction is also left out in the Wiki article. This is important because at least one other theologian gave Gifford Lectures at other locations within 40 years of Hauerwas: David Tracy (99/00 at Edinburgh). So, the first problem is that the Wiki article, by misinterpreting the claim made in the NatCath piece, commits itself to a factual error that the NatCath piece did not commit to.

The second problem is that the original NatCath source may itself be mistaken. This hinges on what is meant by "theologian." No doubt non-theologians have given the Gifford Lectures (Dawkins, Arendt, etc.), but some of the people who gave the Gifford Lectures at St. Andrews within 40 years of Hauerwas might properly be called theologians (and call themselves theologians!) even though the NatCath pieece may not recognize them. One thinks of Marilyn McCord Adams, who does work in philosophical theology, including Problem of Evil, and Nicholas Wolterstorff, who held an endowed chair of Philosophical Theology at Yale. Obviously the claim that Wolterstorff and Adams are theologians as well as philosophers is up for at least some debate (unlike the first set of factual errors I am pointing out), but to me it seems disingenous for the NatCath piece to suppose that Adams and Wolterstorff definitely aren't theologians, since much of their professional work was thoroughgoingly theological!

~O — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.221.107.237 (talk) 03:11, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

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Pacifism
Christian pacifism is one of the most basic of core beliefs of Stanley Hauerwas. Why is this not even mentioned in this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.182.203.122 (talk) 05:19, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Christian Ethics
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Lack of Citation
The human experimentation section and the sections beneath have far too few if any sources and unless these can be add I'm probably going to remove the sections. Bleighton12944 (talk) 19:34, 25 April 2023 (UTC)