Stanley Hauerwas
Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics
Duke University
Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics
at the Divinity School of Duke University. He holds a joint appointment
in Duke Law School. A graduate of Yale Divinity School (B.D. 1965)
and Yale University Graduate School (M.A., M. Phil, Ph.D. 1968), Hauerwas
did his work at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas. He taught
at Augustana College and the University of Notre Dame before he joined
the faculty of Duke University in 1984. He has delivered many lectures
across the U.S. as well as overseas, and delivered the Gifford Lectures
at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland in the year 2000-2001.
Though he is often identified as an ethicist, his work is more properly
described as theology. His primary intent is to show in what way
theological convictions make no sense unless they are actually embodied
in our lives. To that end, his work draws on a great range of literatures
-- from classical, philosophical, and theological texts to contemporary
political theory. He also works in medical ethics, issues of war
and peace, and the care of the mentally handicapped. He was named
"America's Best Theologian" by Time in 2001. His book, A
Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic,
was selected as one of the 100 most important books on religion of the
20th century. Most recently he published With the Grain of the
Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural Theology (Brazos, 2001),
edited Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after September 11 (Duke
University Press, 2003), and authored Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer
and the Practice of Nonviolence (Brazos, 2004).
Professor Hauerwas has been an invited speaker for our "Culture of Life" and "From Death to Life" conferences. He also delivered the J. Philip Clarke Family Lecture on Medical Ethics for the annual Notre Dame Medical Ethics Conference in 1997.
