Disrupting Time: Sermons, Prayers, and Sundries

by Stanley Hauerwas

Publisher:

Cascade

, 2004

Overview

These sermons, essays, and interviews reveal the keen theological insight, good humor, and provocative arguments that have made Stanley Hauerwas an esteemed author and theologian. Tackling topics such as marriage, death, prayer, and more, Hauerwas explains how all these things are changed because of the “disruption” of the coming of Jesus Christ.

Key Features

• Includes sermons, essays and interviews of an esteemed theologian
• Provides understanding into how Jesus impacts all parts of your life—from marriage to death and more
• Offers insight into the mind of theologian Stanley Hauerwas through a series of interviews

Contents

• Aldersgate Sermons
  • The Hastening that Waits
  • Like Those Who Dream
  • Jews and the Eucharist
  • God and the Fourth of July
  • Christ the King
  • Heirs, by Paula Gilbert
• From Bennettsville, South Carolina to Scotland and Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • Witnesses Against Ourselves
  • Providential Peace
  • Boasting in the Third Heaven
  • The Good Samaritan: An Expository Sermon
• Marriage Sermons
  • How the Virgin Birth Makes Marriage Possible
  • An Apocalyptic Marriage
  • Rightly Dressed
• The Ministry and Other Callings
  • For the Love of Ministry
  • Sacrificing Priests
  • On Milk and Jesus
• Two Remembrances: John Howard Yoder and Tommy Langford
• Hauerwas on Hauerwas: Interviews
  • With the Zion Herald (Stephen Sweeker)
  • With Duke Magazine (William Cavenaugh)
  • With Image (Brian Volck)
  • With Cross Currents (Michael Quirk)
• Sundries
  • On Being a Theologian
  • Explaining Why Willimon Never Explains
  • Confessions of a Mennonite Camp Follower

Praise for the Print Edition

Stanley Hauerwas is a man of many gifts. These include wide and deep learning, passion about the issues of the day, a pastoral heart, a love of the Lord Jesus, and a puckish humor that permeates everything he does.

—Walter Brueggemann, professor emeritus of Old Testament, Columbia Theological Seminary

This is a wonderfully fresh book.

—Ellen F. Davis, professor of Bible and practical theology, Duke Divinity School

Product Details

• Title: Disrupting Time: Sermons, Prayers, and Sundries
• Author: Stanley Hauerwas
• Publisher: Cascade
• Print Publication Date: 2004
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Pages: 252
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Hauerwas, Stanley, 1940-; Methodist Church › Sermons; Sermons, American
• ISBNs: 9781592449392, 1592449395
• Resource ID: LLS:DISRUPTINGTIME
• Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:19:12Z

About Stanley Hauerwas

Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University. Prior to that, he was a professor at the University of Notre Dame. In 2001, he was named “America’s Best Theologian” by TIME Magazine. Hauerwas is the author of numerous books, including Unsettling Arguments, Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir, Christian Existence Today, and Living Gently in a Violent World.