Stanley Hauerwas

American theologian.
Date of Humanities Series Lecture: 2 February 2006.

Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University.  Time described him as “America’s best theologian” (September 17, 2001).  A reviewer of  a collection of Hauerwas’s works wrote that “of all the great theologians, he seems to be having the most fun” (Stewart H. Webb, Reviews in Religion and Theology, February 2003). He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University and the D.D. from the University of Edinburgh. After 14 years on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame (1970-1984), he joined the faculty of Duke University in 1984.  As a scholar and theologian, he focused on the need for one’s faith to be a lived reality.  The book on display in the original exhibit was the published version of his Gifford Lectures which he delivered in 2001.  The prestigious Gifford Lectureships were established in 1888 to “promote and diffuse the study of Natural Theology in the widest sense of the term—in other words, the knowledge of God”. 

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