Stanley Hauerwas: More Life, Fewer Explanations

Everything Happens with Kate Bowler

Kate Bowler

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Theologian Stanley Hauerwas has written some of the most influential books on religion in the 20th century. But behind closed doors, he was suffering more than most of us knew. Here, Kate and Stanley talk candidly about his rollercoaster highs and lows of being married to someone with severe mental illness. And why doesn’t God fix our pain? They have some spicy opinions about that. In this episode, Kate and Stanley discuss: Why Christians are not exempt from difficult circumstances Why people need fewer explanations (and why Stanley is suspicious of anyone who demands them) Stanley’s advice for going through something difficult CW: bipolar, mental illness *** Looking for the transcript or show notes? Click here. Find Kate on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Subscribe to our weekly email for blessings. No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) is now available in PAPERBACK. Order your copy, today. Looking for some short spiritual reflections and blessings? Check out GOOD ENOUGH: 40ish Devotionals for a Life of Imperfection. Available wherever books are sold. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Oh, hello there.
0:05.0	Today is one of those very special days where I get to introduce you to one of my real
0:10.1	life friends.
0:12.2	My name is Kate Boehler and this is Everything Happens.
0:16.7	And when I'm not here in this studio talking with all of you, I'm a professor at Duke
0:21.4	Divinity School and one of my colleagues is here with me today.
0:26.0	His name is Stanley Howerwas and his reputation probably precedes him.
0:32.3	He has written some of the most influential books on religion in the 20th century.
0:37.8	But behind closed doors, he was suffering more than most of us knew.
0:42.9	In a marriage shaped by his wife's severe mental illness.
0:46.7	It is out of this lived experience.
0:50.0	He writes and thinks about some of the questions of faith we all wonder.
0:54.6	Why doesn't God fix our pain?
0:56.7	Why does God allow terrible things to happen to us?
1:01.0	Stanley is exactly the person I wanted to talk to about this topic because his responses
1:06.6	are so hard one.
1:09.2	But before we get there, let me tell you a little bit about my friend Stanley.
1:14.4	Stanley is a renowned theologian, ethicist and public intellectual.
1:18.4	In fact, he was named America's Best Theologian by Time Magazine, an honor to which he responded,
1:23.9	and the best is not a theological category.
1:27.3	Stanley taught at Augustana and the University of Notre Dame before joining the faculty at
1:31.7	Duct de Vennany School.
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