Review Essay: Locating the Church in the World: Ethnography, Christian Ethics, and the Global Church
Two important church-and-the-world Catholic theological emphases have recently arisen: firstly, how ethnographic research affects moral theology and ecclesiology, and secondly, moral theology being done consciously within the “world church” context. Both
Christopher P. Vogt
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Balancing Value Bracketing with the Integration of Moral Values in Psychotherapy: Evaluation of a Clinical Practice from the Perspective of Catholic Moral Theology. [PDF]
McWhorter MR.
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Growing up otherwise: Situated ethics and pathways to non‐violence in Southern Brazil
Abstract This paper proposes a reframing of how young men become embroiled—or not—in the systemic violence that infuses their daily lives. Most frameworks in health and social policy tend to approach violence as rooted in psycho‐developmental problems and/or social and structural determinants.
Dominique P. Béhague +3 more
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The Politics of Pointing: Lessing's Fingerzeig and the Limits of Figural Reading
Abstract Lessing's Fingerzeig—a “pointer” that guides without determining judgment—has often been treated as a stylistic habit rather than a hermeneutic principle. This essay reconstructs it as an ethics of interpretation, a gesture that orients without completing and leaves judgment to whoever follows.
Matthew Thomas Stoltz
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Keeping the Command: Karl Barth's Moral Theology in Dialogue with Late Medieval Scholasticism
Due to its dogged persistence in using the language of “divine command,” Karl Barth’s moral theology has, until recent years, been accused of being overly “voluntarist.” Recent scholars of Barth’s work, however, have attempted to exonerate his work ...
Edwards, James Andrew
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From Occupational Stigma to Mukti: Liberation, Place, and Agency Among Sex Workers in Sonagachi
ABSTRACT This article examines how former sex workers in Sonagachi, Kolkata, India, navigate occupational and place‐based stigma through spiritual repertoires, of which mukti (liberation) is a central tool. Drawing on critical, embedded ethnography across three fieldwork periods (2001, 2011, and 2019) with long‐term engagement in the Freeset community,
Edwina Pio +3 more
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Toward a new paradigm for bioethics: ecological and theological contributions [PDF]
In this thesis it is argued that current conceptions of bioethics are inadequate in the light of today's global ecological and societal circumstances. An examination of the dominant contemporary model of bioethics as it is known and practiced in North ...
Rowell, Mary
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The Origins of R. G. Collingwood's Philosophy of History in his Philosophy of Religion, 1916–1943
Abstract This article argues that R.G. Collingwood's philosophy of history was deeply rooted in his early philosophy of religion as expounded in Religion and Philosophy (1916). Although scholars have tended to separate Collingwood's early religious ideas from his later writings, this study demonstrates that his theory of history was informed by his ...
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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Penal‐Reparative Atonement: A Synthesis of Penal Substitution and Satisfaction Models
Abstract I will argue that through Jesus Christ's life, death, resurrection, and ascension—considered as an organic whole—Christ presented his humanity before the Father as the visible instantiation of both God's condemnation of sin and God's delighted acceptation of the Son.
Sean Luke
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