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81. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1
Laura M. Hartman Consuming Christ: The Role of Jesus in Christian Food Ethics
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THIS ESSAY EXAMINES FEASTING AND FASTING IN LIGHT OF CHRISTIAN DEsires to eat as, with, and for Christ. Christ both fasted and feasted; Christians, in following his example, may embody him, encounter him, and eat in certain ways for his sake. In the Eucharist, Christians encounter and embody Christ, illuminating the ways that eating can be a holy practice. The Eucharist offers Christians transformative guidance and practical synthesis, allowing them to navigate the extremes of fasting and feasting. It encompasses and enshrines both, allowing both enjoyment and abstention to be transformed into a fulfilled practice of consumption. Consuming Christ in the Eucharist helps Christians find ways to sanctify their consumption in other areas of life.
82. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1
Darryl M. Trimiew Political Messiahs or Political Pariahs?: The Problem of Moral Leadership in the Twenty-first Century
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POLITICAL MORAL LEADERSHIP IS GENERATED, SUPPORTED, AND BLOCKED by the political morality of the people. Moral communities must accept the clay feet of their leaders but carefully monitor the moral qualities of their leader's public policy. Currently this proper approach has given way to a skewed commitment to superficial personal morality. In earlier times, leaders were held to standards of personal morality and public policy both alike and different from those expected of leaders today. In this essay, I consider those similarities and differences to suggest a new moral index for public leadership.
83. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1
William Joseph Buckley Honest Patriots: Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds; Prophetic Realism: Beyond Militarism and Pacifism in an Age of Terror
84. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1
William Carter Aikin Christianity, Democracy, and the Radical Ordinary: Conversations between a Radical Democrat and a Christian
85. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1
Christiana Z. Peppard Poetry, Ethics, and the Legacy of Pauli Murray
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PAULI MURRAY (D. 1985) WAS AN ACTIVIST, LAWYER, AND PRIEST WHOSE AVocation was writing. In this essay I first contextualize Murray's life and works, and I analyze her poetry and ethical vision (informed also by her prose). I focus on three themes in her poetry: race and interlocking oppressions, the "dream" of America and historiography, and the creative ethical power of productive anger. I engage womanist scholarship as a conversation partner throughout the essay. Moving inductively from my analysis of Murray's poetry, I offer several constructive suggestions about the role and heuristic of poetry in contemporary theological and social ethics.
86. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1
Patrick Clark Is Martyrdom Virtuous?: An Occasion for Rethinking the Relation of Christ and Virtue in Aquinas
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IN HIS NICOMACHEAN ETHICS, ARISTOTLE ARGUES THAT MOST DEATHS are contemptible and offer no opportunity for the exercise of virtue. Thomas Aquinas, on the other hand, considers the publicly shameful death of the martyr to be not only the highest exemplification of the virtue of courage but also the greatest proof of moral perfection more generally. What accounts for this substantial divergence from Aristotle on the possibility of virtuous action in death? This essay investigates the theologically informed metaphysical and anthropological framework within which Aquinas situates his claims and then explores the implications of these claims for his broader ethical appropriation of Aristotelian virtue theory. It ultimately intends to show the extent to which Aquinas's conception of virtue depends upon a theological and specifically Christological understanding of human perfection.
87. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1
Elizabeth Agnew Cochran Virtuous Assent and Christian Faith: Retrieving Stoic Virtue Theory for Christian Ethics
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ALTHOUGH STOIC THOUGHT HAS SHAPED THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION IN decisive ways, Christian ethicists largely overlook the insights Stoicism offers for contemporary Christian discussion of virtue. This essay expands and elaborates our retrieval of ancient ethics of virtue by exploring Stoic "assent" and its possible intersections with Christian ethics. Rather than being tragically fatalistic, Stoic assent functions as a response to divine providence that is compatible with theological commitments that find particular expression in historical Protestant traditions: the claim that salvation occurs by faith alone and a conviction that humans are both morally accountable and utterly dependent upon God. Stoic moral thought offers a framework for developing a morally rich account of the virtues that takes seriously these Christian beliefs.
88. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1
Contributors
89. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1
Joe Pettit A Defense of Unbounded (but Not Unlimited) Economic Growth: The Ethics of Creating Wealth and Reducing Poverty
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THIS ESSAY MAKES AN ETHICAL CASE FOR UNBOUNDED BUT NOT UNLIMited economic growth. The preliminary case for such growth is its correlation with significant reductions in global poverty and the wealth that is created by economic growth. The essay then seeks to show that opposition to growth often rests on controversial assumptions about the nature of markets and productivity. I challenge these assumptions by presenting two important developments in economic theory: new growth theory, especially as related to the work of economist Paul Romer, and evolutionary economics, a trajectory that has evolved into "complexity economics." An ethic of "creative abundance" is presented as a framework from within which to evaluate the prescriptive claims of the essay.
90. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1
Werner Wolbert Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice
91. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1
Mark S. Brocker Ecologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology; Sacramental Commons: Christian Ecological Ethics; Green Witness: Ecology, Ethics, and the Kingdom of God
92. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1
Craig Hovey Choosing Peace through Daily Practices; What about Hitler? Wrestling with Jesus's Call to Nonviolence in an Evil World
93. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1
Christopher P. Vogt Faith and Force: A Christian Debate about War; Just Policing, Not War: An Alternative Response to World Violence
94. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1
Adam Edward Hollowell Purposive Politics: Paul Ramsey, Repentance, and Political Judgment
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IN CHRISTIAN ETHICS AND THE SIT-IN AND WAR AND THE CHRISTIAN CONscience, Paul Ramsey describes politics as a realm of "deferred repentance." Despite several troubling implications of this phrase, I believe the concept of repentance in his work provides an illuminating point of entry into a theological discussion of political judgment. I begin with the question of what Ramsey means by "deferred repentance" and proceed to a wider discussion of his theology of repentance and call for creative political reconstruction. This involves recognition of his debts to H. R. Niebuhr's war articles from the 1930s and '40s and his use of repentance as the determinative motif for a Christian response to war. I also examine the significance of the concept in Ramsey's debates in the 1960s and '70s over how the Vietnam War might be justified. He uses repentance in each of these engagements to demonstrate the reliance of all political judgments on a prior theological account of certain features of human interaction, namely, the contingency and temporality of created existence.
95. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 1
Lloyd Steffen Liberating Jonah: Forming an Ethics of Reconciliation
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Preface
97. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 2
Ayesha S. Chaudhry The Ethics of Marital Discipline in Premodern Qur'anic Exegesis
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CONTEMPORARY MUSLIM SCHOLARS WHO SEEK TO RECONCILE GENDER egalitarian values with the premodern patriarchal Islamic tradition face a dilemma. Because the two values—gender egalitarianism and patriarchy—are fundamentally at odds with each other, scholars must choose one to privilege over the other. If the premodern Islamic tradition is privileged, then the ideal of gender egalitarianism is compromised. However, favoring gender egalitarian values at the expense of the premodern Islamic tradition leads to the loss of authority within the believing community. This essay explores the options available to Muslim scholars as they negotiate the egalitarian—authoritative dilemma in the context of the Qur'anic exegesis of the husbandly privilege to discipline wives in Qur'an 4:34.
98. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 2
Esther D. Reed Refugee Rights and State Sovereignty: Theological Perspectives on the Ethics of Territorial Borders
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THERE IS A RELATIVE DEARTH OF THEOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTION TO PRESENT-day discussion about the status of territorial borders. Secularist discourse tends to divide between "partialists" and "impartialists." Partialists work with an ideal of states as distinct cultural communities, which justifies priority for the interests of citizens over refugees. Impartialists work with an ideal of states as cosmopolitan agents, which takes into account equally the interests of citizens and refugees. The aim of this essay is to show how selected biblical texts help to rethink these categories and offer different, theologically informed ways of construing the meaning of borders. The need for an "ethic of answerability" is established and initial suggestions are given as to how this approach might be developed.
99. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 2
Emily J. Choge Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa
100. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics: Volume > 30 > Issue: 2
David A. Clairmont Theravāda Buddhist Abhidhamma and Moral Development: Lists and Narratives in the Practice of Religious Ethics
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THIS ESSAY EXAMINES THE RELEVANCE FOR RELIGIOUS ETHICS OF BUDDHIST Abhidhamma texts, those dealing with the analysis and systematization of mental states arising in and examined by meditation practice. Developing recent scholarship on the prevalence and significance of interlocking lists in Buddhist canonical texts and commentaries, the Buddhist use of lists in the Abhidhamma constitutes a kind of narrative expression of moral development through the sequential occurrence of carefully defined mental states. Attention to this narrative dimension of the moral life, while related to other recent proposals about the place of narrative in religious ethics, offers a way to employ this underexamined genre of religious literature (lists) drawn from a comparative context (Buddhist and Christian ethics), in service of a more nuanced account of moral development.