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Article: Can't we just argue?(ideas of Stanley Hauerwas)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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STANLEY HAUERWAS talks about Catholics like Jane Goodall talks about chimpanzees: he spent many years among them as an outsider, came to appreciate their strange practices and rituals, and grew to love them so much that he almost, but not quite, felt like one of them.
It was during his 14 years at Notre Dame that the set of practices called "church" became an important part of Hauerwas's vocabulary. Hauerwas became fascinated by a group of people who appeared to be so constituted by their relationships to one another. He relished the challenge to his Pietist upbringing posed by a sacramental sensibility that focused on the objective presence of God instead of the ...