Pub Date : 2023-04-08DOI: 10.5840/jsce2022/202342293
P. Haley
{"title":"Infidels and Empires in a New World Order: Early Modern Spanish Contributions to International Legal Thought by David M. Lantigua (review)","authors":"P. Haley","doi":"10.5840/jsce2022/202342293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce2022/202342293","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43321,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49485703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-08DOI: 10.5840/jsce2022/202342297
E. H. Breitenberg
{"title":"The Business of War: Theological and Ethical Reflections on the Military-Industrial Complex ed. by James Mccarty, Matthew Tapie, and Justin Bronson Barringer (review)","authors":"E. H. Breitenberg","doi":"10.5840/jsce2022/202342297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce2022/202342297","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43321,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41515246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:By examining the recent #ChurchToo movement in South Korea, this paper argues that treating clergy sexual abuse is not only a matter of seeking justice but also a matter of struggling for recognition. Understanding human subjectivity and agency as embedded in social recognition is key to examining the issue of sexual violence. To this end, this paper does two things. First, I show that Hegelian theories of recognition provide the Korean church with a useful tool through which they can analyze the current #ChurchToo movement occurring globally, and particularly in Korea. Second, given the role that the ethics of recognition plays in political activism, I suggest that the hashtag activism of #ChurchToo must transform into a political assembly in the street that helps the church break free from the grip of oppressive social norms, structures, and ritualized patterns that rend women and minority genders' bodily lives more precarious.
{"title":"Clergy Sexual Abuse and an Ethics of Recognition: An Example of the #ChurchToo Movement in South Korea","authors":"David Kwon","doi":"10.5840/jsce2022111874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce2022111874","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:By examining the recent #ChurchToo movement in South Korea, this paper argues that treating clergy sexual abuse is not only a matter of seeking justice but also a matter of struggling for recognition. Understanding human subjectivity and agency as embedded in social recognition is key to examining the issue of sexual violence. To this end, this paper does two things. First, I show that Hegelian theories of recognition provide the Korean church with a useful tool through which they can analyze the current #ChurchToo movement occurring globally, and particularly in Korea. Second, given the role that the ethics of recognition plays in political activism, I suggest that the hashtag activism of #ChurchToo must transform into a political assembly in the street that helps the church break free from the grip of oppressive social norms, structures, and ritualized patterns that rend women and minority genders' bodily lives more precarious.","PeriodicalId":43321,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49234675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic is critically analyzed as a social magnifying glass that exacerbates pre-existing unjust situations and contexts—locally, nationally, and internationally. Hence, to reflect ethically on these multiple challenges requires addressing the social and political determinants of health. The essay articulates a systemic approach that examines, first, unjust structural dimensions (i.e., poverty, gender, and racism); and second, local and global practices in healthcare, with privileged attention given to structural dynamics, professionals, decisions, and institutional leadership. As a result, the ethics of global public health stresses how health is a shared, interconnected, and inclusive good that should be carefully protected and urgently promoted.
{"title":"The Coronavirus Pandemic: Ethical Challenges in Global Public Health","authors":"A. Vicini","doi":"10.5840/jsce202271356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce202271356","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic is critically analyzed as a social magnifying glass that exacerbates pre-existing unjust situations and contexts—locally, nationally, and internationally. Hence, to reflect ethically on these multiple challenges requires addressing the social and political determinants of health. The essay articulates a systemic approach that examines, first, unjust structural dimensions (i.e., poverty, gender, and racism); and second, local and global practices in healthcare, with privileged attention given to structural dynamics, professionals, decisions, and institutional leadership. As a result, the ethics of global public health stresses how health is a shared, interconnected, and inclusive good that should be carefully protected and urgently promoted.","PeriodicalId":43321,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45905685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"We Carry the Fire: Family and Citizenship as Spiritual Calling by Richard A. Hoehn (review)","authors":"C. Myers","doi":"10.5840/jsce202242170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce202242170","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43321,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42672420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:Disability theology has been a small but growing field over the past thirty years. This paper reviews the current methods used in the discipline and proposes ways to move the field forward. Two intersections between disability studies and Christian theological ethics are explored in particular: bioethics and critical theory. Bioethics helps to address the material health and wellbeing concerns of people with disabilities and the discriminatory attitudes about disability that stem from the medical field. Critical theory on the other hand, examines disability through cultural productions that shape our ableist imaginary. Critical theory offers resources for countering or "disciplining" our imaginations. Both bioethics and critical theory offer unique entry points into disability, but each also contains limitations that reveal why disability theology must continue to engage multiple methods and discourses.
{"title":"Intersections and Methods in Disability Theology: Bioethics and Critical Studies as Dialogue Partners","authors":"D. Stahl, Leonard P. Curry","doi":"10.5840/jsce202281663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce202281663","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Disability theology has been a small but growing field over the past thirty years. This paper reviews the current methods used in the discipline and proposes ways to move the field forward. Two intersections between disability studies and Christian theological ethics are explored in particular: bioethics and critical theory. Bioethics helps to address the material health and wellbeing concerns of people with disabilities and the discriminatory attitudes about disability that stem from the medical field. Critical theory on the other hand, examines disability through cultural productions that shape our ableist imaginary. Critical theory offers resources for countering or \"disciplining\" our imaginations. Both bioethics and critical theory offer unique entry points into disability, but each also contains limitations that reveal why disability theology must continue to engage multiple methods and discourses.","PeriodicalId":43321,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46419124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:Sustained reflection on multiple expressions of Asian American experience directs us to the coercive logic of racial identities. Noticing this logic is critical to identifying the limitations of several strategies to resist and transcend racial injustice, including the demand for racial recognition. Rereading the Parable of the Good Samaritan as one about the perils of racial identity and then taking cues from the nonviolent practice of truth force provide a blueprint for reimagining the liberative role racial identities can play.
{"title":"Interrupting the Violence of Racial Identities: Lessons from Asian American Experience, the Parable of the Good Samaritan, and \"Truth Force\"","authors":"K. Choi","doi":"10.5840/jsce202281664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce202281664","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Sustained reflection on multiple expressions of Asian American experience directs us to the coercive logic of racial identities. Noticing this logic is critical to identifying the limitations of several strategies to resist and transcend racial injustice, including the demand for racial recognition. Rereading the Parable of the Good Samaritan as one about the perils of racial identity and then taking cues from the nonviolent practice of truth force provide a blueprint for reimagining the liberative role racial identities can play.","PeriodicalId":43321,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46747593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:This paper offers a Thomistic defense of gossip as a licit means of protecting third parties from harm by known offenders. After first clarifying what constitutes gossip, it draws from Thomas Aquinas to identify the narrow set of conditions under which gossip might be both permissible and obligatory. It concludes by specifying how the duty to gossip might work in Christian institutions, and especially within institutions where there are weak systems of formal accountability.
{"title":"(When) Is There a Christian Responsibility to Gossip?","authors":"M. Anderson","doi":"10.5840/jsce202271858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce202271858","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This paper offers a Thomistic defense of gossip as a licit means of protecting third parties from harm by known offenders. After first clarifying what constitutes gossip, it draws from Thomas Aquinas to identify the narrow set of conditions under which gossip might be both permissible and obligatory. It concludes by specifying how the duty to gossip might work in Christian institutions, and especially within institutions where there are weak systems of formal accountability.","PeriodicalId":43321,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46499484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
abstract:White evangelical habits of mind and idolatrous allegiances propped up a devastatingly irresponsible political administration; I argue that the COVID-19 pandemic should be viewed as an apocalypse: "a catastrophic revelation"—in this case, of Christian responsibility refused. I engage the works of Christian historians Mark Noll and Kristin Kobes Du Mez to interrogate how evangelical habits of mind and heart have nurtured anti-intellectualism, credulousness, and the uncritical adoption of neoliberal economic individualism before turning to a constructive Christian realist call for "nasty" (honest, embodied) thinking and genuine repentance which draws from Andrew DeCort's Bonhoeffer scholarship.
抽象:白人福音派的思想习惯和崇拜偶像的忠诚支撑了一个毁灭性的不负责任的政治政府;我认为,新冠肺炎大流行应该被视为一场灾难:“灾难性的启示”——在这种情况下,基督徒的责任被拒绝了。我引用了基督教历史学家Mark Noll和Kristin Kobes Du Mez的作品,来探究福音派的思想和心灵习惯是如何培养反智主义、轻信,以及在转向建设性的基督教现实主义呼吁“肮脏”(诚实、具体化)的思考和真正的忏悔之前,不加批判地采用了新自由主义的经济个人主义,这源于Andrew DeCort的Bonhoeffer奖学金。
{"title":"Know-Nothing Nihilism: Pandemic and the Scandal of White Evangelicalism","authors":"M. A. Harrington","doi":"10.5840/jsce202281662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce202281662","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:White evangelical habits of mind and idolatrous allegiances propped up a devastatingly irresponsible political administration; I argue that the COVID-19 pandemic should be viewed as an apocalypse: \"a catastrophic revelation\"—in this case, of Christian responsibility refused. I engage the works of Christian historians Mark Noll and Kristin Kobes Du Mez to interrogate how evangelical habits of mind and heart have nurtured anti-intellectualism, credulousness, and the uncritical adoption of neoliberal economic individualism before turning to a constructive Christian realist call for \"nasty\" (honest, embodied) thinking and genuine repentance which draws from Andrew DeCort's Bonhoeffer scholarship.","PeriodicalId":43321,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41476410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith by David Newheiser (review)","authors":"Dhinakaran Savariyar","doi":"10.5840/jsce202242175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce202242175","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":43321,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF THE SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48395827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}