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America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity.

From Stanley Hauerwas

The British, I have discovered, assume that Americans are more religious than they are.

From Stanley Hauerwas

I am not convinced that the U.S. is more religious than Britain. Even if more people go to church in America, I think the U.S. is a much more secular country than Britain.

From Stanley Hauerwas

In Britain, when someone says they do not believe in God, they stop going to church. In the U.S., many who may have doubts about Christian orthodoxy may continue to go to church. They do so because they assume that a vague god vaguely prayed to is the god that is needed to support family and nation.

From Stanley Hauerwas

I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.

From Stanley Hauerwas

I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.

From Stanley Hauerwas

I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods.

From Stanley Hauerwas

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

From Stanley Hauerwas

From my perspective, 'postmodernism' merely names an interesting set of developments in the social order that is based on the presumption that God does not matter.

From Stanley Hauerwas

Liberal Christianity, of course, has enemies, but they are everyone's enemies - sexism, racism, homophobia. But liberal versions of Christianity, which can be both theologically and politically conservative, assume that what it means to be Christian qua Christian is to have no enemies peculiar to being Christian.

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