You're Not Accepted: Recent Episodes
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The gang wrap up this series on Stan the Man by discussing Stanley's Advent sermon, "Facing God, Facing Nothingness," in his book, Without Apology.
From his forthcoming book, Becoming Human, Johanna and Jason discuss Stan's essay (on Karl Barth) "The Christian Message, the Work of Theology, and the New Humanism."
Jason thinks this is a very good episode.
For the latest in our series of conversations about the work of Stanley Hauerwas, Johanna, Jason, and Teer talk about prayer and Stanley's book "Prayers Plainly Spoken."
Johanna, Jason, and Teer discuss Stanley's essay, 'Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. Remembering: A Response to Christopher Beem.' This essay was first featured in The Journal of Religious Ethics, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Spring, 1995).
The abstract:
"The question of the relation of my work to that of Martin Luther King Jr. cannot be resolved with the theoretical tools Christopher Beem brings to the task. Stanley Fish has written that "those who detach King's words from the history that produced them erase the fact of that history from the slate, and they do so, paradoxically, in order to prevent that history from being truly and deeply altered." The vice of liberalism is not selfishness so much as a forgetfulness that spreads like a blight from the habit of abstraction. Martin Luther King Jr. remembered his people, his savior, and his church, and he called the rest of us to share those memories. Therein lay his strength."
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In this episode, the podcast posse discuss an essay by a frequent interlocutor of Stanley's, The God of the Theologians and the God of Jesus Christ by James McClendon.
"Moralistic liberalism and individual pietism are mirror evils that have made the church understood as the distinctive Body of Christ virtually invisible in America." In this episode, the podcast posse discusses an essay Stanley wrote with Ralph Wood, "How the Church became Invisible: A Christian Reading of American Literature," along with Flannery O' Connor's short story "The Displaced Person."
Johanna, Jason, and Teer discuss 'Jesus the Story of the Kingdom,' one of the concluding chapters from 'The Peaceable Kingdom' (1983).
Christian ethics is about being schooled in the narrative of Jesus and discipleship. It is not about what you would do in a hypothetical situation, it is about forming people who will act in a particular way when those situations come up.
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"The Gospel is not an answer to questions produced by human anxiety but a proclamation of a fact."
In the latest installment of YANA, we discuss Stanley's essay, "Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Political Theology," from his book "Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence."
Johanna and the boys sat down to talk about 'Practicing Patience: How Christians Should Be Sick,' co-authored by Stanley Hauerwas and Charles Pinches. The essay was originally published in Christian Bioethics (1996, Vol. 2, No.2,).
During COVID-19 all of us have had to practice patience and while maybe not being a patient. Throughout the conversation, the crew explores, as the authors put it, "our ability to take the time to enjoy God's world, when we are well as when we are sick, depends on our recognition that it is indeed God's world."
The gang discusses Stanley’s essay on mental illness and his memoir, Hannah’s Child:
“I refuse to attribute meaning to the despair that mental illness is, to believe that such despair can have meaning because, if all meaning is of God, the meaning would be of God. But if there were in fact a purpose or reason for such despair it would not be despair but something else. Mental illness is the lack of meaning just as evil is the lack or privation of the good.”
Here’s the essay:
"If we ask the elderly to commit suicide in order to shore up the economy for their grandchildren, then their grandchildren won't have lives worth living."
In the latest installment of You Are Not Accepted, Jason and Taylor have a quick conversation with Stanley Hauerwas about the Coronavirus pandemic and what it means for the church.
“ Jesus is the heart from which the truth must be spoken. Thus the truth that must be spoken is known only through witness. Because he is the truth we can speak the truth. That speaking the truth takes the form of witness means we are confronted with this truth in a manner that does not allow us to distance ourselves from him. Any attempt to sunder truth from this the true witness, to make truth an idea about the relation between God and man, cannot be the truth. If the truth is thought to be but a symbol, no matter how exalted, it is but a falsehood. The true witness is this man of Gethsemane and Golgotha.
Because the truth is this person, the one who endured Gethsemane and Golgotha, it is a truth that cannot resort to coercion to secure its status. The truth that is Christ, the truth that can only be known by witness, is a truth that must make its way in the world by refusing to use the desperate means of the world to force others to acknowledge what is claimed to be true. There can be nothing desperate about the witness that is Christ because what God has done through the Son cannot be undone. That is why the truth that is Christ is so compelling. It is compelling because those possessed by this truth are filled with joy.”
Here’s the link to the original address: https://ssw.edu/sermon/dr-stanley-hauerwas-sermon-for-2012-commencement-2/
“God is using this time to remind the Church that Christianity is unintelligible without enemies. Indeed, the whole point of Christianity is to produce the right kind of enemies. We have been beguiled by our established status to forget that to be a Christian is to be made part of an army against armies. It has been suggested that satisfaction theories of the Atonement and the correlative understanding of the Christian life as a life of interiority became the rule during the long process we call the Constantinian settlement. When Caesar becomes a member of the Church the enemy becomes internalized. The problem is no longer that the Church is seen as a threat to the political order, but that now my desires are disordered. The name for such an internalization in modernity is pietism and the theological expression of that practice is called Protestant liberalism. “
In the latest installment of You Are Not Accepted, Johanna gets hot and bothered over Stanley’s address, “Preaching as Though We Had Enemies.” Originally delivered to the homiletics guild, this address is found in his collection, Sanctify Them in the Truth: Holiness Exemplified, and also at First Things: https://www.firstthings.com/article/1995/05/preaching-as-though-we-had-enemies
Dr. Johanna, Jason, and Teer talk about Stanley Hauerwas’ essay whence the pod series name came, “You Are Not Accepted.” The piece is Stanley’s rejection of Paul Tillich’s famous sermon “You Are Accepted” and featured in his book, Unleashing the Scriptures. This provocative critique of the uses and abuses of Scripture in the American church shows how liberal (historical-critical) and fundamentalist (literal) approaches to biblical scholarship have corrupted our use of the Bible. Hauerwas argues that the Bible can only be understood in the midst of a disciplined community of people, where the story is actually lived out by dedicated practitioners.
For Episode #2 of You Are Not Accepted, Stan the Man joins Johanna, Jason, and Teer to discuss the theology of preaching— and why dumbing things down for people just makes for dumb people— from his book Without Apology.
On each episode of 'You're Not Accepted,' we will discuss a different essay from the one and only Stanley Hauerwas. That’s right, the Hauerwas Mafia is going full Hauerwas! Stan the man will join us periodically and we will do our best to contain Jason the fanboy.
So, that is what you need to know about today’s episode. Enjoy.
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Dr. Johanna Hartelius, host of Hemeneutics, is hosting a new podcast series for Crackers and Grape Juice called “You Are Not Accepted: Engaging Hauerwas on Holiness.” Every other Wednesday Johanna, Jason Micheli, and Teer Hardy will discuss a writing by the theologian Stanley Hauerwas and oftentimes with Stanley Hauerwas. For our first episode, we talked with Stanley about his essay in Minding the Web entitled “Preaching in the Ruins.”
Get ready for the Hauerwas Mafia to do what it does best. We're going full Hauerwas on you.
On each episode of You're Not Accepted we will discuss a different essay from the one and only Stanley Hauerwas. Stan the man will join us periodically and we will do our best to contain Jason the fanboy.
Go ahead and order yourself a copy of Resident Aliens and prepare to be Hauerwas'd.