You’re Not Accepted

Hosted ByDr. Johanna Hartelius

Discussing essays and sermons of Stanley Hauerwas

Episode 3 – You Are Not Accepted

Dr. Johanna, Jason, and Teer talk about Stanley Hauerwas’ essay whence the pod series name came, “You Are Not Accepted.” The piece is Stanley’s rejection of Paul Tillich’s famous sermon “You Are Accepted” and featured in his book, Unleashing the Scriptures. This provocative critique of the uses and abuses of Scripture in the American church shows how liberal (historical-critical) and fundamentalist (literal) approaches to biblical scholarship have corrupted our use of the Bible. Hauerwas argues that the Bible can only be understood in the midst of a disciplined community of people, where the story is actually lived out by dedicated practitioners.

About the Author
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.