{"title":"The Nature of Human Persons: Metaphysics and Bioethics by Jason Eberl (review)","authors":"James T. Bretzke","doi":"10.5840/jsce202242167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce202242167","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":"47902023","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":"Formative Political Grief","authors":"C. Snarr","doi":"10.5840/jsce20224213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce20224213","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":"45143359","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":"Wealth, Virtue, and Moral Luck: Christian Ethics in an Age of Inequality by Kate Ward (review)","authors":"Cara E. Curtis","doi":"10.5840/jsce202242181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce202242181","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":"43974535","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:Judgments of moral culpability play a crucial role in our lives, providing a basis for practices of accountability that are essential to a just society. Yet when they exceed their proper limits, such judgments can breed resentment and mistrust, thereby undermining the social bonds that they are meant to preserve. In this essay, I explore this tension in cases where the person being judged is sincerely ignorant of having done anything wrong. Drawing upon Aquinas's discussion of negligence as a cause of sin, I argue that individuals can sometimes be accountable for sins of which they are completely unaware, but only when this ignorance is of something that they could and should have known. Such a perspective, I suggest, offers a helpful way of addressing contemporary concerns regarding social sin and systemic injustice from within the Thomistic tradition.
{"title":"\"You Should Have Known\": Aquinas on Negligence and Moral Culpability","authors":"Nick T. Ogle","doi":"10.5840/jsce202281661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce202281661","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Judgments of moral culpability play a crucial role in our lives, providing a basis for practices of accountability that are essential to a just society. Yet when they exceed their proper limits, such judgments can breed resentment and mistrust, thereby undermining the social bonds that they are meant to preserve. In this essay, I explore this tension in cases where the person being judged is sincerely ignorant of having done anything wrong. Drawing upon Aquinas's discussion of negligence as a cause of sin, I argue that individuals can sometimes be accountable for sins of which they are completely unaware, but only when this ignorance is of something that they could and should have known. Such a perspective, I suggest, offers a helpful way of addressing contemporary concerns regarding social sin and systemic injustice from within the Thomistic tradition.","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":"48381252","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":"Virtue and Theological Ethics: Toward a Renewed Ethical Method by Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler (review)","authors":"Ramón Luzárraga","doi":"10.5840/jsce202242177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce202242177","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":"47275171","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":"Politics after Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World by David Vandrunen (review)","authors":"K. Choi","doi":"10.5840/jsce202242180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce202242180","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":"42939204","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 essay asks: How do the realities of embodied trauma inflicted by racism interface with virtue theory? This question illuminates two lacunae in virtue theory. The first is attention to race. We argue that the contemporary academic virtue literature performs largely as a White space, failing to address virtue theory's role in the social construction of race, ignoring the rich and vibrant resources on virtue ethics alive within the Black theological tradition that long antedates Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue, and segregating the emerging literature on race and virtue from the broader discourse. The second is lack of attention to embodiment. More precisely, contemporary virtue theory, informed largely by Aristotle, Aquinas, and MacIntyre, has no conceptual space to theorize the body's role acquiring and deploying virtue and vice. To explore this nexus, we draw on racial trauma therapist Resmaa Menakem, Katie Walker Grimes, and Howard Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited to challenge contemporary virtue theory and open new possibilities for a robustly corporate, enfleshed theological virtue ethic.
{"title":"Vicious Trauma: Race, Bodies and the Confounding of Virtue Ethics","authors":"M. T. Lysaught, Cory D. Mitchell","doi":"10.5840/jsce202281660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce202281660","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This essay asks: How do the realities of embodied trauma inflicted by racism interface with virtue theory? This question illuminates two lacunae in virtue theory. The first is attention to race. We argue that the contemporary academic virtue literature performs largely as a White space, failing to address virtue theory's role in the social construction of race, ignoring the rich and vibrant resources on virtue ethics alive within the Black theological tradition that long antedates Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue, and segregating the emerging literature on race and virtue from the broader discourse. The second is lack of attention to embodiment. More precisely, contemporary virtue theory, informed largely by Aristotle, Aquinas, and MacIntyre, has no conceptual space to theorize the body's role acquiring and deploying virtue and vice. To explore this nexus, we draw on racial trauma therapist Resmaa Menakem, Katie Walker Grimes, and Howard Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited to challenge contemporary virtue theory and open new possibilities for a robustly corporate, enfleshed theological virtue ethic.","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":"44266747","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":"Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Ascetism by Alda Balthrop-Lewis (review)","authors":"L. Cassidy","doi":"10.5840/jsce202242165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce202242165","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":"42737304","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":"Do We Change Our Minds in Public Life? On Christianity and the Possibility of Political Conversion","authors":"N. M. Flores","doi":"10.5840/jsce20224215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce20224215","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":"49276452","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":"Politics of Abuse, Abuse of Politics","authors":"V. Lloyd","doi":"10.5840/jsce20224216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/jsce20224216","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":"47361224","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}