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Ethnography as Christian Theology and Ethics
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Good and Bad Ways to Think about Religion and Politics; The Way of Peace: Christian Life in the Face of Discord
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Nonviolence—A Brief History: The Warsaw Lectures
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Ressourcement Thomism: Sacred Doctrine, the Sacraments, & the Moral Life
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Stanley Hauerwas
Bearing Reality: A Christian Meditation
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In this essay I draw on the work of novelist J. M. Coetzee and philosophers Cora Diamond, Stanley Cavell, and Stephen Mulhall to reflect on what it might mean to do Christian ethics without denying the "difficulty of reality." I then turn to John Howard Yoder's 1987 SCE presidential address to show how his call to see history doxologically enables the Christian to acknowledge the "difficulty of reality" without succumbing to despair. To acknowledge humanity's limitations without falling into despair or hopeless skepticism is only possible because the community founded on the crucified and risen Lord means we never bear reality alone.
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From Sin to Amazing Grace: Discovering the Queer Christ
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Erotic Attunement: Parenthood and the Ethics of Sensuality between Unequals
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Gerald W. Schlabach
"Confessional" Nonviolence and the Unity of the Church:
Can Christians Square the Circle?
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Both within and among churches that have traditionally held to just war teaching, various formulas in the last fifty years have allowed for the recognition that Christian pacifism is a respectable tradition alongside just war. It is not obvious, however, how historic peace churches can officially reciprocate with the same kind of ecumenical generosity by recognizing the legitimacy of the just war tradition. To do so, after all, would seem to require giving up their very claim to the confessional status of nonviolence, thus undermining their very identities as historic peace churches. Glen Stassen's well-accepted exegesis of Jesus's Sermon on the Mount opens up an unexpected path out of this impasse. If he is right that the sermon is organized around a consistent succession of triads in which Jesus first named "traditional righteousness,'' then diagnosed a "vicious cycle," then presented a "transforming initiative" for escaping that cycle, then the relationship between just war and pacifism can be reconceived in entirely fresh ways.
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Compassionate Justice: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue with Two Gospel Parables on Law, Crime, and Restorative Justice
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Joshua Daniel
The Human Body and the Humility of Christian Ethics:
An Encounter with Avant-Garde Theatre
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This essay proposes two examples of avant-garde theatre, Jerzy Grotowski's poor theatre and Augusto Boal's theatre of the oppressed, as resources for Christian ethics. Both pursue theater as bodily copresent interaction whose moral labor is the liberation of the human body from conventional gestures for the sake of authentic encounter and from oppressive postures for the sake of social intervention. Focusing on the body in this way reveals that the place of narrative, while essential to Christian ethics, is ambiguous. The outcome of this argument is the possibility of combining the insights of monastic and liberation accounts of the moral life in order to release moral action in microsocial encounters, thus recovering the constitutive humility of Christian ethics.
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Ethical Theory and Responsibility Ethics: A Metaethical Study of Niebuhr and Levinas
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Peter Singer and Christian Ethics: Beyond Polarization
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Religion, Modernity, and Politics in Hegel
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Community, Authority, and Autonomy:
Jewish Resources for the Vaccine Wars
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What can the Jewish tradition contribute to the current public debate about vaccination? Much of the rhetoric surrounding vaccine refusal appeals to concepts of individual autonomy and fears of political and intellectual authority, claiming that the individual is the best expert on his or her own health and on whether to actively deny accepted medical consensus. Unlike many other health decisions, vaccine refusal has direct and measurable consequences for one's community. The Jewish tradition's emphasis on community and the well-being of the collective, as well as its tradition of respect for intellectual authority, can be a critical support to the medical community in encouraging wide-spread vaccination.
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Atmospheric Powers, Global Injustice, and Moral Incompetence:
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Problems that overwhelm moral agency challenge methods of ethics that prioritize social practices. This essay explains how climate change exceeds moral competencies, criticizes climate ethics for eliding the difficulties, and the attempts to vindicate a practice-based approach by arguing for the possibility of doing ethics from incompetent projects. However, because incompetence easily becomes the excuse of injustice, I illustrate the argument with an indigenous peoples' climate justice project that both exemplifies the creativity my approach needs and bears a strong critique of its method.
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Driven from Home: Protecting the Rights of Forced Migrants; Kinship across Borders: A Christian Ethic of Immigration
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War and the American Difference: Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity
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An Introduction to Christian Ethics: Goals, Duties, and Virtues; The Moral Disciple: An Introduction to Christian Ethics
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Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies
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