Thurday Night with theologian Stanley Hauerwas

Jordon and Leighton pilgrimaged to Regina to hear Stanley Hauerwas, a theologian whom Time has called America’s Greatest Theologian who was in town to give the Luther Lecture. Jordon has some pretty good notes on Hauerwas’s lecture, The Sacrifice of War and the Christian Sacrifice.

From the Luther Lecture Website

Dr. Hauerwas is a graduate of Yale Divinity School (B.D. 1965) and Yale University Graduate School (M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., 196 and did his undergraduate work at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas. He taught for two years at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois before joining the faculty of the University of Notre Dame, where he taught from 1970-1984. He joined the faculty of Duke University in 1984. There he served as Director of Graduate Studies from 1985-1991. He is a member of the Society for Christian Ethics, the American Academy of Religion and the American Theological Society. He has received honourary degrees from DePaul University (198 as well as the University of Edinburgh (1991).

Dr. Hauerwas delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectureship at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland in 2001. He was named “America’s Best Theologian” by TIME in 2001 and appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show. He has written numerous books, articles, sermons and papers throughout his career. His book, A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic, was selected as one of the 100 most important books on religion of the 20th Century.