In an address on why he does what he does [WM audio/video], and in answer to the question, “In the context of theological education, what does patience look like?” Stanley Hauerwas said:
It means that in a world as unjust as this one, when people are dying of starvation at this moment, when cruelty exists that is unimaginable, we think we can take the time to read books, in the hope that reading those books well will make us a people capable of standing against the hunger and the cruelty that exists. How to do that, without it becoming ideology and false conciousness… there is no guarantee to avoid that, other than having people call us to account.
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