{"title":"The Opening of the Protestant Mind: How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty, by Mark Valeri","authors":"Sarah A. Morgan Smith","doi":"10.54669/001c.115326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54669/001c.115326","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":259948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion, Culture & Democracy","volume":"18 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140375477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Faith in Democracy: Framing a Politics of Deep Diversity, by Jonathan Chaplin","authors":"Samuel Vandeputte","doi":"10.54669/001c.95014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54669/001c.95014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":259948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion, Culture & Democracy","volume":"49 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140229126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Theologians from various religious traditions have spoken out recently in favor of the just peace theory as a replacement for the traditional just war theory. This new theory severely limits the possibilities for nations to wage just wars. However, since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing conflict, the academic debate on just peace theory has fallen silent. The necessary self-defense of Ukraine shows how replacement of just war with just peace faces major problems. Besides pragmatic problems, the just peace theory has important theoretical problems from a Roman Catholic point of view. This essay deals with those problems and offers an alternative.
{"title":"How Ukraine’s Just War Challenges Just Peace Theory","authors":"Maurits Potappel","doi":"10.54669/001c.94254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54669/001c.94254","url":null,"abstract":"Theologians from various religious traditions have spoken out recently in favor of the just peace theory as a replacement for the traditional just war theory. This new theory severely limits the possibilities for nations to wage just wars. However, since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ensuing conflict, the academic debate on just peace theory has fallen silent. The necessary self-defense of Ukraine shows how replacement of just war with just peace faces major problems. Besides pragmatic problems, the just peace theory has important theoretical problems from a Roman Catholic point of view. This essay deals with those problems and offers an alternative.","PeriodicalId":259948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion, Culture & Democracy","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140253212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article uses a particular cultural-historical lens—Christian humanism—for reading C. S. Lewis’s three-part work The Abolition of Man. The argument (1) traces Christian humanism from its patristic roots to its modern resurgence; (2) outlines key themes of Christian humanism, acknowledging the breadth of manifestations and contested elements hidden in that term; (3) outlines Lewis’s Christian humanism; and (4) suggests elements of The Abolition of Man that indicate Lewis’s Christian humanism.
本文使用一个特殊的文化历史视角--基督教人文主义--来解读 C. S. 刘易斯的三部曲作品《废人》。论点(1)追溯了基督教人文主义从教父起源到现代复兴的历史；(2)概述了基督教人文主义的关键主题，承认了该术语所隐藏的广泛表现形式和有争议的要素；(3)概述了刘易斯的基督教人文主义；(4)提出了《废止人类》中表明刘易斯基督教人文主义的要素。
{"title":"The Christian Humanism of C. S. Lewis’s Abolition of Man","authors":"Chris R. Armstrong","doi":"10.54669/001c.90878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54669/001c.90878","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses a particular cultural-historical lens—Christian humanism—for reading C. S. Lewis’s three-part work The Abolition of Man. The argument (1) traces Christian humanism from its patristic roots to its modern resurgence; (2) outlines key themes of Christian humanism, acknowledging the breadth of manifestations and contested elements hidden in that term; (3) outlines Lewis’s Christian humanism; and (4) suggests elements of The Abolition of Man that indicate Lewis’s Christian humanism.","PeriodicalId":259948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion, Culture & Democracy","volume":" 30","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138964347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In The Abolition of Man and “Is Progress Possible?,” C. S. Lewis reflects on the nature of the human person, science, liberty, and the role of government. These topics were also debated during the 2019–2022 coronavirus pandemic. This article reflects upon the lessons we might learn from Lewis in respect of those aspects of the pandemic, especially as found in the United Kingdom and United States. In considering Lewis’s approach we find a depth of wisdom in balancing liberty, scientific expertise, social and economic concerns, and the role of government.
{"title":"Lewis and Liberty: Reflections on a Pandemic","authors":"Richard Turnbull","doi":"10.54669/001c.89187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54669/001c.89187","url":null,"abstract":"In The Abolition of Man and “Is Progress Possible?,” C. S. Lewis reflects on the nature of the human person, science, liberty, and the role of government. These topics were also debated during the 2019–2022 coronavirus pandemic. This article reflects upon the lessons we might learn from Lewis in respect of those aspects of the pandemic, especially as found in the United Kingdom and United States. In considering Lewis’s approach we find a depth of wisdom in balancing liberty, scientific expertise, social and economic concerns, and the role of government.","PeriodicalId":259948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion, Culture & Democracy","volume":"49 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139010277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines C. S. Lewis’s Abolition of Man from the perspective of economics. One of the principles of economics first taught by Adam Smith was that of specialization and division of labor. The overlap between the discipline of economics and the teaching of Lewis can be described as an application of this principle. Economics is a scholarly discipline that studies how choices are made. The division of labor that Lewis offers is the recognition that freedom of choice is not an end in itself.
本文从经济学的角度研究了 C. S. 刘易斯的《废人论》。亚当-斯密最早传授的经济学原则之一是专业化和劳动分工。经济学学科与刘易斯的教学之间的重叠可以说是这一原则的应用。经济学是一门研究如何做出选择的学术学科。刘易斯提出的分工是承认选择自由本身并不是目的。
{"title":"The Abolition of Man and the Dismal Science","authors":"K. Elzinga","doi":"10.54669/001c.89183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54669/001c.89183","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines C. S. Lewis’s Abolition of Man from the perspective of economics. One of the principles of economics first taught by Adam Smith was that of specialization and division of labor. The overlap between the discipline of economics and the teaching of Lewis can be described as an application of this principle. Economics is a scholarly discipline that studies how choices are made. The division of labor that Lewis offers is the recognition that freedom of choice is not an end in itself.","PeriodicalId":259948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion, Culture & Democracy","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138978626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The moral innovators whom C. S. Lewis criticized in The Abolition of Man supposed that they could draw imperatives out of their superior understanding of sentiment and instinct. They assumed that to know what human beings want to do is to know what human beings should do. But people want to do all sorts of things that are irrational, pointless, harmful, and even downright evil. And people want inconsistent things. So the innovators are incoherent. As Lewis correctly affirmed, no amount of knowledge about nature or the world is sufficient by itself to direct us to do what is good and right. “From propositions about fact alone no practical conclusion can ever be drawn,” Lewis stated. To reason well, expertise is not enough. We must also know what is good, and we must be capable of exercising right judgment.
{"title":"Is, Ought, and the Limited Competence of Experts","authors":"Adam J. MacLeod","doi":"10.54669/001c.89225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54669/001c.89225","url":null,"abstract":"The moral innovators whom C. S. Lewis criticized in The Abolition of Man supposed that they could draw imperatives out of their superior understanding of sentiment and instinct. They assumed that to know what human beings want to do is to know what human beings should do. But people want to do all sorts of things that are irrational, pointless, harmful, and even downright evil. And people want inconsistent things. So the innovators are incoherent. As Lewis correctly affirmed, no amount of knowledge about nature or the world is sufficient by itself to direct us to do what is good and right. “From propositions about fact alone no practical conclusion can ever be drawn,” Lewis stated. To reason well, expertise is not enough. We must also know what is good, and we must be capable of exercising right judgment.","PeriodicalId":259948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion, Culture & Democracy","volume":"60 30","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138595110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Democracy seems shaky in the contemporary United States. In recent polls, an overwhelming 70 percent of Americans say that democracy is under threat, in crisis, and at risk of failing. Conventional wisdom tends to lay the blame for those findings—and the underlying fragility of democracy in America—at the feet of discrete political actors or at growing “polarization” in the electorate. But in The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis gives us reason to look deeper—at the difficult relationship, in practice, between modern democracy and enduring values. This essay shows how Lewis helps us better understand the crisis of democracy in America (including the crisis of faith in democracy in America) today.
{"title":"The Abolition of Democracy","authors":"Susan McWilliams Barndt","doi":"10.54669/001c.89395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54669/001c.89395","url":null,"abstract":"Democracy seems shaky in the contemporary United States. In recent polls, an overwhelming 70 percent of Americans say that democracy is under threat, in crisis, and at risk of failing. Conventional wisdom tends to lay the blame for those findings—and the underlying fragility of democracy in America—at the feet of discrete political actors or at growing “polarization” in the electorate. But in The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis gives us reason to look deeper—at the difficult relationship, in practice, between modern democracy and enduring values. This essay shows how Lewis helps us better understand the crisis of democracy in America (including the crisis of faith in democracy in America) today.","PeriodicalId":259948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion, Culture & Democracy","volume":"58 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138595431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Place to Stand against the Abolition of Man","authors":"Jordan J. Ballor, Micah Watson","doi":"10.54669/001c.89185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54669/001c.89185","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":259948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion, Culture & Democracy","volume":"11 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138603453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land, by Mark David Hall","authors":"Joseph M. Knippenberg","doi":"10.54669/001c.87625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54669/001c.87625","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":259948,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion, Culture & Democracy","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127462086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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