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Kristopher Norris
Toxic Masculinity and the Quest for Ecclesial Legitimation
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This essay analyzes masculinity as an ecclesial strategy for maintaining cultural and political power. It begins by examining the masculine theology promoted by the German Christian Movement that gave religious justification for Nazism’s violence against those who did not conform to their masculine norms. Drawing on conceptions of ‘legitimation crisis’ and masculinities studies, it argues that the masculine theology of the German Christians, predicated on a desire for social and political relevancy, shares a similar logic with current American evangelical masculinity. In conclusion, it turns to Dietrich Bonhoeffer for resources of ecclesial resistance to these masculine temptations for cultural relevancy and political power.
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Karen Ross, Megan K. McCabe, Sara Wilhelm Garbers
Christian Sexual Ethics and the #MeToo Movement:
Three Moments of Reflection on Sexual Violence and Women’s Bodies
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These three reflections look at the theological and ethical implications of sexual violence in light of the attention brought by #MeToo. The first explores ethnographic interviews which indicate that Church leaders, teachers, and parents contribute to rape culture by leaving sexual violence unaddressed in Christian sexual education, arguing that it must be reconstructed to eliminate the Church’s participation in a culture that promotes gender-based violence. The second notes that feminist scholarship has made the case that rape and “unjust sex” are associated with what is considered acceptable heterosexuality, require the category of “cultural sin” to account for the social responsibility of persons. Finally, the third explores how a feminist political theological ethics of “dangerous memory” is required to critique of the structures and systems that violate women’s selves and bodies.
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Elizabeth Sweeny Block
White Privilege and the Erroneous Conscience:
Rethinking Moral Culpability and Ignorance
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This paper considers the problems that unconscious racial bias and social sin more broadly pose for moral theology’s concepts of the erroneous conscience and ignorance. It argues that systemic racism prompts us to reimagine the erroneous conscience and individual culpability for ignorance. I argue that the erroneous conscience is useful in protecting human dignity in the face of error and in acknowledging the many ways we err but also problematic because it equates error with concrete action and conscious decisions and does not account for responsibility for social sin. This paper asserts that people of privilege and white persons cannot be morally innocent, but the erroneous conscience as it has been understood in the theological tradition often implies that innocence is the goal of the moral life and only holds us accountable for conscious moral actions.
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Karen V. Guth
Sacred Emblems of Faith:
Womanist Contributions to the Confederate Monuments Debate
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This paper explores the power of womanist ethics to illuminate the Confederate monuments debate. First, I draw on Emilie Townes’s analysis of the “cultural production of evil” to construe Confederate monuments as products of the “fantastic hegemonic imagination” that render visible for whites the invisibility of “whiteness.” Second, I argue that Angela Sims’s work on lynching provides a vivid example of how “countermemory” functions as an antidote to the fantastic hegemonic imagination. Finally, I argue that Delores Williams’s re-evaluation of the cross as a sacred symbol enables a reading of Confederate monuments as realist symbols of violence that require displacement from the center to the periphery of national sacred space. I conclude that although the debate on Confederate monuments is important, womanist analysis warns against an overly-narrow focus on this issue, lest we neglect the already obscured gendered, classist, homophobic, and xenophobic dimensions of structural injustice that the monuments represent.
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James F. Keenan, S.J.
College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics: The Lives and Longings of Emerging Adults; and Faith with Benefits: Hookup Culture on Catholic Campuses. By Jason King
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Jon Kara Shields
Radical Friendship: The Politics of Communal Discernment. By Ryan Andrew Newson
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Daniel P. Scheid
From Nature to Creation: A Christian Vision for Understanding and Loving Our World. By Norman Wirzba
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Eun Young Hwang
Hegel’s Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation. By Molly Farneth
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Rubén Rosario Rodríguez
Still Christian: Following Jesus out of American Evangelicalism. By David P. Gushee
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Erin Dufault-Hunter
Pilgrimage as Moral and Aesthetic Formation in Augustine’s Thought. By Sarah Stewart-Kroeker
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Andriette Jordan-Fields
The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, and Religious Diversity in America. By Jeannie Hill Fletcher
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Néstor A. Gómez
Mercy in Action: The Social Teachings of Pope Francis. By Thomas Massaro, SJ.
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Andrew Stone Porter
Just Debt: Theology, Ethics, and Neoliberalism. By Ilsup Ahn
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Mary M. Doyle Roche
The Evolution of Human Wisdom. Edited by Celia Deane-Drummond and Agustín Fuentes
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The Peril and Promise of Christian Liberty: Richard Hooker, the Puritans, and Protestant Political Theology. By W. Bradford Littlejohn
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Joshua Mauldin
Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine. By Joseph Clair
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Protestant Social Ethics: Foundations in Scripture, History, and Practice. By Brian Matz
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Lucila Crena
Building the Good Life for All: Transforming Income Inequality in Our Communities. By L. Shannon Jung
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Antonio Gramsci and the Question of Religion: Ideology, Ethics, and Hegemony. By Bruce Grelle
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Kathryn D. Blanchard
Trust Women: A Progressive Christian Argument for Reproductive Justice. By Rebecca Todd Peters
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