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Irene Oh
The Performativity of Motherhood:
Embodying Theology and Political Agency
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ANALYZED THROUGH THE WORK OF FEMINIST AND QUEER THEORIST JUDITH Butler, anthropologist Saba Mahmood, and philosopher Martha Nussbaum, motherhood complicates theories of performativity that separate sex from gender and that equate women's agency with progressive politics. Motherhood should be understood as performative, that is, entailing self-reflective agency but not entirely separable from women's bodies. While motherhood may be manipulated to support patriarchal institutions, experiences of motherhood also inspire fresh interpretations and critiques of anthropocentric Christian theology and Muslim religious texts. Given the political dimensions of motherhood, the appearance of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin as prominent politicians attests to the variety of performativity and the need to protect women's agency.
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Keun-joo Christine Pae
Western Princesses—A Missing Story:
A Christian Feminist Ethical Analysis of U.S. Military Prostitution in South Korea
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THE PRIMARY GOAL OF THIS ESSAY IS TO BRING PUBLIC AWARENESS OF MILitary prostitution sprung up around U.S. military bases across the globe. With a focus on the lived experiences of Korean military prostitutes for American soldiers in South Korea ("Western princesses"), this essay argues that military prostitution should be considered a human reality in the realm of international politics: the U.S. empire building at the expenses of women's bodies. This argument further aims to foster Christian feminist—social ethics that reconstructs a Christian realistic approach to globalized militarism, the relation between sensuality and sexuality, and transnational solidarity for peace.
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John Wall
The Equal-Regard Family and Its Friendly Critics: Don Browning and the Practical Theological Ethics of the Family; Conceiving Parenthood: American Protestantism and the Spirit of Reproduction
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Paul E. Capetz
Creative Exchange: A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience
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Joel Gereboff,
Keith Green,
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Maria Heim
The Nature of the Beast: Hatred in Cross-Traditional Religious and Philosophical Perspective
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HATRED IS A PHENOMENON OF TREMENDOUS ETHICAL SIGNIFICANCE, YET it is poorly understood today. This essay explores some of the ways in which hatred is conceptualized and evaluated within different philosophical and religious traditions. Attention is focused on the Hebrew Bible and on the writings of Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca, Aquinas, and Buddhaghosa. Subtle differences mark various tradition-rooted accounts of the nature, causes, and effects of hatred. These differences yield different judgments about hatred's value and imply different methods for addressing the problem of hatred.
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Katherine Burkholder
Anesthesia: A Brief Reflection on Contemporary Aesthetics
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Perry T. Hamalis
The Horrors We Bless: Rethinking the Just-War Legacy; War, Peace, and God: Rethinking the Just-War Tradition
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Toward the Great World House:
Hans Küng and Martin Luther King Jr. on Global Ethics
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IN A CRITICAL CONVERSATION WITH HANS KÜNG'S GLOBAL ETHIC, THIS ESsay studies the contribution of Martin Luther King Jr.'s communal-political ethics for the theory and praxis of global ethics. While Küng's global ethic, due to its quasi-Kantian method, reduces thick religious descriptions into minimal moral codes (ignoring the structural dynamics of globalization, reifying grassroots religious movements), King's ethics points us toward a constructive global ethics that consists of four synthetic components: vision (the world house), principles (human rights), virtue (love, justice, etc.), and transformative political method (nonviolence), which more adequately explains the dynamic relationship of global ethics and the grassroots movements of a global civil society.
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Mark J. Allman
Just War, Lasting Peace: What Christian Traditions Can Teach Us
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Thomas O'Brien
Following Jesus in a Culture of Fear; Love That Does Justice
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Brian D. Berry
Catholic Ethics in Today's World; Catholic Moral Theology in the United States: A History; Gathered for the Journey: Moral Theology in Catholic Perspective
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What the Torture Debate Reveals about American Evangelical Christianity
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THE DISCOVERY OF DETAINEE ABUSE AT ABU GHRAIB IN 2004 FOLLOWED by the gradual disclosure or release of government documents signaling that decisive policy shifts by the U.S. government led directly to such abuses contributed to a dispiriting national debate about the morality of torture—a debate that continues today. An ongoing fracture between competing social-political-ethical visions in the evangelical world has been revealed and further exacerbated by this debate over torture. Politically conservative evangelicals restrict their policy engagement to issues such as abortion and gay marriage and either steer clear of the torture issue or actually defend torture and attack antitorture efforts; centrist and progressive evangelicals favor a broader agenda that has included opposition to torture. Employing analytical categories derived from a study of Christian behavior in Nazi Europe as well as from personal experiences, this essay recounts and analyzes the torture debate as it occurred in the American evangelical community. The analysis yields the conclusion that white American evangelicalism has displayed structural theological-ethical weaknesses that make this community profoundly susceptible to state (or at least Republican) abuses of power. In response to this integrity-testing moment in evangelical life, this essay calls for a renewed evangelical commitment to a Christ-centered vision of the dignity and rights of every human being.
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Edward Collins Vacek
Vices and Virtues of Old-age Retirement
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AS BABY BOOMERS BEGIN TO REACH RETIREMENT AGE IN 2010, THEY ARE faced with the prospect of twenty to thirty postwork years. Should this period have any goals or purpose other than be a very long vacation? Four gerontological theories propose alternative priorities for this time: continuity, new start, disengagement, and completion. Each has a place within a full life. Careful consideration of each theory exposes how certain vices and virtues mutate during this "third age" of life: integrity and dissipation; self-gratification and generosity; repentance, humility, and denial; and trust and detachment.
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The Sanctity of Human Life
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Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship
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James M. Childs
Eschatology, Anthropology, and Sexuality:
Helmut Thielicke and the Orders of Creation Revisited
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IN MANY CHURCH-BODY DISPUTES OVER THE MORAL STATUS OF SAME-gender unions, the last line of defense against the affirmation of such unions is often an appeal to homosexual orientation as inherently "disordered," rendering same-gender unions unacceptable regardless of the loving and just qualities they may embody. On the basis of a biblical anthropology shaped by the eschatological orientation of the scriptures and further enhanced by contemporary Trinitarian discourse, this essay engages and challenges this traditional view as it has been developed in the theological ethics of Helmut Thielicke. In so doing, the essay raises a key metaethical question of the theological foundations that inform Christian sexual ethics in general.
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Ki Joo Choi
Virtue Reformed: Rereading Jonathan Edwards's Ethics
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Phil Muntzel
Christian Ethics and the Moral Psychologies; Spiritual Emotions: A Psychology of Christian Virtues
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Bonhoeffer and King: Speaking Truth to Power
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