"I regard the Religious Right as a representative of a truncated if not idolatrous form of Christianity. Indeed, I think that the Religious Right is a desperate attempt of Protestantism to make sense of itself as a form of civil religion for America. That it why the Christianity represented by the Religious Right is one so strident and pathetic."Thanks to Dan Greeson for the link to this lecture that Dr. Hauerwas gave last year at Boston College. If you have an hour free, give it a listen.
--Stanley Hauerwas
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10.24.2007
theology | Hauerwas On The End of Religious Pluralism
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4 comments:
Dan,
What an enjoyable hour it was! Totally worth listening to for sure.
Cheers!
Thanks for the comment. I thoroughly enjoyed the lecture. I'm a big Hauerwas fan. Hopefully I will be at Duke in the M.Div. program this time next year.
Peace.
yay hauerwas.
So, basically to be a pacifist, you have to never have been born. Actually, I can get behind that. That's why I don't call myself a pacifist.
Also, Zizek has a similar point of tolerance and acceptance making religions into just beliefs:
NYTimes "How China Got Religion"
Sounds like Hauerwas needs to read polycultural writers (Rey Chow, Robin Kelley, Vijay Prashad). But, then again, they might be too post-structuralist for him.
Thanks for an entertaining hour!
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