{"id":307,"date":"2004-06-02T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2004\/06\/02\/stanley-hauerwas\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T21:21:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T21:21:05","slug":"stanley-hauerwas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2004\/06\/02\/stanley-hauerwas\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Hauerwas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Interesting blog on <a href=\"http:\/\/pontifications.classicalanglican.net\/index.php?p=34\">Hauerwas and the Bible Gestapo<\/a>. After reading Hauerwas in seminary and in the process acquiring a critical dislike for the contents of his writing, this critique comes as a breath of fresh air. The inconsistencies of Hauerwas are equally invisible to his disciples and obvious to his critics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hauerwas is an advocate of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drury.edu\/ess\/Reason\/Aristotle.html\">Virtue Ethics<\/a>. While this system has much to commend it, it is also not without problems. The interesting quote in the blog is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>I do not believe, in the Church\u2019s current circumstance, that each person in the Church thereby is given the right to interpret the Scripture<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>For Hauerwas, only those who have developed the virtues are capable of understanding the Bible rightly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This begs a question in the case of Hauerwas. To make such a claim and have the claim not self-stultify, Hauerwas must be making the claim that he, himself, has the necessary virtue to make this argument. At the very least, wouldn&#8217;t the virtue that he lacks then be humility?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gospel is simple enough that a child can believe.<br>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting blog on Hauerwas and the Bible Gestapo. After reading Hauerwas in seminary and in the process acquiring a critical dislike for the contents of his writing, this critique comes as a breath of fresh air. The inconsistencies of Hauerwas are equally invisible to his disciples and obvious to his critics. Hauerwas is an advocate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":725,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}