Stanley Hauerwas Quotes

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

Stanley Hauerwas

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

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Delight
  • Controversy
  • Theologian