Stanley Hauerwas

Reminiscere (Lent 2) – Mt. 15.21-28

March 8, 2009

  Our prayers are too nice. In fact, they are so polite, they are rude. What else do you call it when our prayer before meals is rattled off like an auctioneer, the Lord’s Prayer said with the enthusiasm of a funeral director reading the phone book, and our private prayers too often employed like [...]

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Invocabit 2009 – Mt. 4.1-11

March 7, 2009

  Dearly beloved, we are constantly in danger of forgetting that we are God’s dearly beloved, or even succumbing to the horrible thought that God does not love us. This is the root of temptation – no longer believing that what God says is true, no longer believing that God has our best interest at [...]

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Jesus the superior exegete

February 27, 2009

Stanley Hauerwas on the Gospel for Invocabit, the temptation of Jesus in Matthew 4: “Jesus is to be subjected to Israel’s testing in the wilderness, a testing in which Israel proved her inability to live faithfully despite God’s good gifts. The Son, however, will be obedient, but we cannot overlook the cost of his obedience. [...]

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