A Quote by Stanley Hauerwas
I am not sure I can make clear what it means to say I come from the Catholic side of Protestantism, but at the very least, it means that I do not think Christianity began with the Reformation.
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My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.
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