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41. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 1
Caroline Anglim Intersectionality as a Critical Framework for Medical Ethics Education
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Medical ethics educators have a responsibility to assess the dominant ped­agogical methods and textbooks we utilize to advance our students’ knowledge about cultural differences and health disparities. In this essay, I argue that intersectional theory functions as an effective tool for the assessment and correction of diversity, equity, and inclusion training models for medical students. I critique, in particular, the additive conceptions of identity and diversity that dominate the literature. Intersectional theorists also provide helpful directives for how to train students to be suspicious of social categories and their relations to power structures. Their ideas can be used to create parameters for case-based learning so as not to undertheorize the culture of medicine and to add depth to core concepts like autonomy and privacy through much-needed investigations of identity formation and expression. Ultimately, intersectional theory pushes medical ethicists to educate their students to understand difference, diversity, and inequity within a wider moral frame.
42. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 1
Nicholas Hayes-Mota An Accountable Church?: Broad-Based Community Organizing and Ecclesial Ethics
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Accountability is a quality often demanded of the church and its leaders today, and especially so within the Roman Catholic Church. But how should accountability itself be understood, and how might a more accountable church be achieved? This essay explores these questions from a new angle by offering a detailed ethical analysis of how accountability operates within broad-based community organizing (BBCO), a form of democratic politics with a highly developed theory and practice of accountability in which many churches already participate. In dialogue with BBCO, the essay develops a constructive framework for conceptualizing accountability. It makes a case for understanding accountability principally as a property of reciprocal relationships between persons, and stresses the need to proactively cultivate and sustain relationships of accountability through ongoing democratic practices of accountability. It also highlights the role played by moral authority, power, and virtue in these relationships and practices. The essay concludes by using this framework to propose a new interpretation of the Catholic Church’s accountability crisis. It suggests a more accountable church may only be achieved when the whole people of God begin organizing themselves to build it.
43. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 43 > Issue: 1
James W. McCarty “Hope is a Discipline”: Practicing Moral Imagination in Transformative Justice
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Rather than “embracing hopelessness,” many marginalized communities understand their practices of political resistance as exercises in hope. One space of contemporary activism where this is evident is in transformative justice movements. Utilizing the idea of moral imagination as articulated in peacebuilding and conflict transformation literature, and the idea of hope as a social practice as articulated by Keri Day, I argue that a close examination of transformative justice organizing reveals hope as a social practice of embodied moral imagination practiced by communities on the margins.
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Quan Li Karl Barth, Mou Zongsan, and the Political Responsibility of the Chinese Protestant Church
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How can dogmatic teachings inform the political witness of the Chinese Protestant church and its calling among the moral crises of the past four decades? This essay responds to this urgent need by examining the political legacies of Karl Barth and Mou Zongsan, two dogmatic thinkers of Protestant Christianity and New Confucianism. A contextual and constructive comparison of the two figures allows us to reconfigure the notion of political responsibility as a praxis theory of neighbor love with several critical elements: it grounds the political responsibility of the church in the imperative of safeguarding fellow humanity and the forming of responsible humanity, and this imperative must be self-critical and forward-looking in practice. It thus contributes to Christian ethics by articulating the legacy of Barth’s dogmatic theology for democratic ethics through interfaith dialogue and a praxis theory of neighbor love for the Chinese Protestant church under the neoliberal regime.
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Marie-Claire Klassen Mary, Our Lady Who Brings Down Walls: Encountering Mary in Fratelli Tutti and Israel-Palestine Today
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In Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis writes that Mary “wants to give birth to a new world . . . where there is room for all those whom our societies discard, where justice and peace are resplendent.” This essay explores the significance of Mary for a Christian vision of peace and justice through ethnographic research on the role of Mary in the lives of Palestinian Christian women and in popular religion in Palestine more broadly. Utilizing the methodology of theological ethnography, this essay centers the personal experiences of Palestinian Christians and considers the implication their understanding of Mary has for Fratelli Tutti and Christian ethics.
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Ogonna Hilary Nwainya African Palaver Ethics, the Common Good, and Nonrecognition of Women
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This essay argues that African palaver ethics makes a vital contribution to the common good tradition in Catholic social ethics. It highlights the significance of solidarity in both Bénézet Bujo’s account of palaver ethics and David Hollenbach’s account of the common good. Yet it concedes that palaver ethics is not perfect as it does not adequately address the missing voices of women. Therefore, it calls for the ethical conversion of the palaver so as to duly recognize the voices of African women and their various contributions to the common good.
book reviews
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Laurie Cassidy Agrarian Spirit: Cultivating Faith, Community, and the Land, by Norman Wirzba
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Trevor Bechtel The Art of Cycling, Living, & Dying: Moral Theology from Everyday Life, by D. Stephen Long
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Luke Zerra Becoming the Baptized Body: Disability and the Practice of Christian Community, by Sarah Jean Barton
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Taylor J. Ott Beyond Biology: Rethinking Parenthood in the Catholic Tradition, by Jacob M. Kohlhaas
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Anne-Marie Ellithorpe Bivocational and Beyond: Educating for Thriving Multivocational Ministry, edited by Darryl W. Stephens
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Joseph J. Kotva Jr. Disability’s Challenge to Theology: Genes, Eugenics, and the Metaphysics of Modern Medicine, by Devan Stahl
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Catherine Yanko Environmental Guilt and Shame: Signals of Individual and Collective Responsibility and the Need for Ritual Responses, by Sarah E. Fredericks
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Beth Quick Ethics and Advocacy: Bridges and Boundaries, edited by Harlan Beckley, Douglas F. Ottati, Matthew R. Petrusek, and William Schweiker
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Melanie Dzugan Human Becoming in an Age of Science, Technology, and Faith, by Philip Hefner, Edited By Jason P. Roberts and Mladen Turk
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Amos Winarto Living as the Living Jesus: A Broader Jesus Ethic, by Kenneth W.M. Wozniak
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Adam Tietje Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition, by Mark Douglas
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Marcus Mescher Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics: A Feminist Christian Account, by Karen Peterson-Iyer
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Matthew Webber Space Ethics, by Brian Patrick Green
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Joshua Beckett The Split Economy: Saint Paul Goes to Wall Street, by Nimi Wariboko
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