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| Hauerwas was born in 1940 and began work as a bricklayer for his father's business. His academic life was Yale, Augustana, Notre Dame, Duke. |
Jesus Changes Everything: A New World Made Possible (Plough Spiritual Guides) Paperback – March 11, 2025
A new Hauerwas book popped up this morning, so I decided to list a few coincidences. His first teaching job was at Augustana College in Rock Island, and I met him very briefly. He was fired (not re-hired after the initial three-year hitch) and went on to Notre Dame, where he was paid even less.
We talked in the windowless basement of the Notre Dame library some years later. My sister-in-law babysat his son - once - and that was the connection that led me into the Notre Dame PhD program in theology. 1975. Christina and I moved only an hour away from Notre Dame for a number of years to get that done.
Charles Caldwell and I were in the same Pastoral Theology program. He was a conservative Episcopalian who had a lot of quips about the far-Left Episcopalian priests. Caldwell was like one of those angel characters in movies, coming up with other-worldly commentary.
The Notre Dame theology department was rather small in those days. Some Protestants were teaching there - and married. Various denominations were well known and expected to produce books and articles.
For written finals (which would qualify us to start writing a dissertation) we were locked in small rooms and given a limited amount of time. I brought my electric typewriter and plugged it in - the only one. That was about 50 years ago.
Yes, we brought nickels to the library to copy journal articles from Xerox machines.
Now I set up Zoom broadcasts, blogging the post, sending a file around. The broadcast converts to a YouTube, and the YouTubes increase in number. Now the old guys beg the younger ones to explain the technology.
