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41. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
Kevin Carnahan Ethics, Nationalism and Just War: Medieval and Contemporary Perspectives; Arguing the Just War in Islam
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Eric Mount Child Poverty: Love, Justice, and Social Responsibility; Attending Children: A Doctor's Education
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Laura M. Hartman Environmental Stewardship: Critical Perspectives—Past and Present; Theology That Matters: Ecology, Economy, and God
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Brett Wilmot Scriptural Reasoning and the Problem of Metaphysics: Insights for Argument in Liberal Democracy
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THIS ESSAY PRESENTS AN EXTENDED MEDITATION ON THE DEVELOPING practice of scriptural reasoning insofar as it may contribute to our thinking about political discourse in the context of late-modern liberal democracies. Concerns are raised about the account of argument and practical reason expressed by practitioners of scriptural reasoning, particularly with respect to an antimetaphysical bias. Following Franklin Gamwell, I suggest that a coherent theoretical account of democracy should be open to the critical assessment of metaphysical claims. I conclude that scriptural reasoning does provide a helpful resource for thinking about argument across religious traditions in a democratic context but requires a clearer position on metaphysics to make a truly distinctive contribution to reforming our understanding of democratic politics in the context of religious pluralism.
45. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
John P. Crossley Jr. Moral Discernment in the Christian Life: Essays in Theological Ethics; "The Responsibility of the Church for Society" and Other Essays
46. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
Patrick McCormick Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of Natural Law
47. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 29 > Issue: 1
Elizabeth A. Barre Within Reason: The Epistemic Foundations of Catholic and Muslim Arguments for Political Liberalism
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THIS ESSAY ARGUES THAT JUDGMENTS ABOUT THE NATURE AND function of human reason play analogous (though not identical) roles in Catholic and Muslim arguments for political liberalism. Focusing on the works of John Courtney Murray and three contemporary Muslim reformers, I note three similarities. First, thinkers in both traditions argue that it is humankind's unique ability to reason about the moral law that constitutes our dignity and provides the foundation for the right to religious liberty. Second, this ability to reason is what allows us to provide the publicly accessible justifications that the liberal principle of reciprocity seems to require. Finally, all four authors argue that their attempts to reform or develop their traditions are dependent upon and required by the dictates of human reason.
48. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 29 > Issue: 2
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Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar Christian Love, Material Needs, and Dependent Care: A Feminist Critique of the Debate on Agape and "Special Relations"
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THE RECENT CONVERSATION WITHIN CHRISTIAN ETHICS ABOUT THE RELAtionship between universal obligations and particular, intensive relations—between agape and "special relations"—largely accepts Gene Outka's formulation that these are separate and competing moral claims that must be balanced within the Christian moral life. I examine the relationship between agape and special relations through the lens of dependency and dependent-care relations. Attention to dependent care and the material needs addressed within them raises questions about the sharp division between universal and particular obligations. Drawing on the work of feminist philosopher Eva Feder Kittay, I argue that an adequate understanding of Christian love must take account of both our fundamental human equality and the pervasiveness of dependency in human life. Such an understanding of Christian love reveals that agape is a matter of personal and social ethics.
50. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 29 > Issue: 2
Mary M. Veeneman Reviving Evangelical Ethics: The Promises and Pitfalls of Classic Models of Morality
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Cristina L. H. Traina Children and Moral Agency
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CHILDREN ARE INCONSISTENTLY LABELED MORAL AGENTS IN SOME HIGHLY charged situations and denied that status in others. This essay draws on the writings of Nomy Arpaly, Lisa Tessman, and legal theorists to argue that both children and adults should nearly always be considered moral agents. But agency does not imply autonomy, ability to articulate rational reasons, or legal liability for either adults or children. Rather, all agents are dependent and conditioned. This quality divides them from a strict Augustinian vision in which adults and children are fully and solely responsible for their actions. The subtext of Augustine's Confessions suggests that Augustine's biography can as easily be interpreted according to the present framework as according to his own thematic of concupiscence.
52. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 29 > Issue: 2
Elizabeth M. Bucar Reading More than "Lolita" in Tehran: Ethical Genre in the Digital Age
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THE TITLE OF THIS ESSAY, "READING MORE THAN LOLITA IN TEHRAN," IS meant to invoke Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, a memoir documenting how Western literary classics have the ability to change and improve the lives of people living under theocratic rule. In 1995, after resigning from her job as a professor at a university in Tehran, Nafisi invited seven of her best women students to attend a weekly study of Vladimir Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, and other authors she believed would provide the women with examples of how to successfully assert their autonomy despite great odds.
53. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 29 > Issue: 2
Jeff B. Pool The Way That Leads There: Augustinian Reflections on the Christian Life; Ethics in the Community of Promise: Faith, Formation, and Decision
54. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 29 > Issue: 2
Sharon M. Tan Less Than Two Dollars a Day: A Christian View of World Poverty and the Free Market; John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption
55. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 29 > Issue: 2
Darryl Trimiew Mining the Mother Lode: Methods in Womanist Ethics
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Clarke E. Cochran United States Welfare Policy: A Catholic Response
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Sandra Sullivan-Dunbar Can a Health Care Market Be Moral? A Catholic Vision
58. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 29 > Issue: 2
John Perry Are Christians the "Aliens Who Live in Your Midst"?: Torah and the Origins of Christian Ethics in Acts 10—15
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RECENT JEWISH—CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE HAS UNCOVERED THAT THE EARLY church's ethics were firmly rooted in Jewish halakhic thinking. This essay explores the topic through a study of the church's moral reasoning in Acts 10—15. We see the church readily employing distinctions that are now rarely invoked by Christian ethicists, such as between universal and particular moral law. These distinctions allowed the church to understand the ethical significance of the Torah not by imposing external categories on it (ceremonial versus moral) but through the Torah's own, internal distinctions. Thus, the church's understanding of the Torah can best be understood through the image of geirei toshav (aliens who live in the midst of the people). This image could help Christian ethicists understand their relation to pluralistic contexts because it was precisely the increased pluralism of gentile inclusion that prompted the church in Acts. I briefly consider the implications for a concrete case: the Episcopal-Anglican Communion's debate about homosexuality, which employs the Acts 10—15 narrative.
59. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 29 > Issue: 2
Terrence L. Johnson Rethinking Justice from the Margins: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Limits of Political Liberalism
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IN THIS ESSAY I USE W. E. B. DU BOIS AND HIS CATEGORY OF TRAGIC SOUL-life in an attempt to expand John Rawls's notion of public reason. As it stands, the divide between religion and politics within Rawlsian political liberalism inadequately attends to the role of moral beliefs, especially those used to justify and reinforce antiblack racism, in forming and fashioning political commitments. By introducing tragic soul-life and Du Bois's category of second sight, I plan to show how a reflective model of deliberation based on Du Boisian themes will allow social actors to interrogate the overlap between political and comprehensive beliefs without necessarily compromising democratic traditions on which rest political conceptions of justice.
60. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 29 > Issue: 2
Angela D. Sims Nooses in Public Spaces: A Womanist Critique of Lynching—A Twenty-first Century Ethical Dilemma
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LYNCHING, A MORAL PROBLEM THAT PROVIDES INSIGHT INTO AMERICA'S past and present, is more than "a rope and a bundle of sticks." Lynching was always intended as a metaphor to understand race relations in the United States. How, then, might we interpret the proliferation of nooses in various American locales in 2006 and 2007? In this essay I examine whether responses to a cultural symbol—the noose—can result in ethical possibilities that contribute to the common good.