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Discussing essays and sermons of Stanley Hauerwas

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Episode 7: Reflections on God and Mental Illness

April 8, 2020 Johanna Hartelius You're Not Accepted Comments Off on Episode 7: Reflections on God and Mental Illness

The gang discusses Stanley’s essay on mental illness and his memoir, Hannah’s Child:

“I refuse to attribute meaning to the despair that mental illness is, to believe that such despair can have meaning because, if all meaning is of God, the meaning would be of God. But if there were in fact a purpose or reason for such despair it would not be despair but something else. Mental illness is the lack of meaning just as evil is the lack or privation of the good.”

Here’s the essay:

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Dr. Johanna Hartelius is Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Rhetoric of Expertise (Lexington, 2011) and the forthcoming book The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons (University of California Press, 2020). When she's not explaining to Crackers and Grape Juice that rhetoric means something other than ornamentation and lies, she teaches graduate and undergraduate classes and tries to raise two little humans. Johanna is the host of You're Not Accepted.