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    The Ecstasy of Desire: Some Notes on Asceticism and the Church of England's Living in Love and Faith.Maikki Aakko - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):753-786.
    Recently the General Synod of the Church of England agreed to approve liturgical resources— Prayers of Love and Faith—for blessing same-sex couples. This decision was the result of a long process of discernment concerning matters of sexuality and identity called Living in Love and Faith. This article aims to critique some of the background ethical and theological assumptions at work in the Living in Love and Faith resources, specifically the way the role of asceticism is conceived in them. I argue (...)
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  2. Book Review: Becoming Human: The Holy Spirit and the Rhetoric of Race by Luke A. Powery. [REVIEW]Calida Chu - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):926-928.
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  3. Book Review: Theology in the Capitalocene by Joerg Rieger. [REVIEW]Mark Douglas - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):928-932.
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  4. Book Review: A Political Theology of Vulnerability by Sturla J. Stålsett. [REVIEW]Siobhán Garrigan - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):932-935.
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  5. Book Review: Saving the Protestant Ethic: Creative Class Evangelicalism and the Crisis of Work by Andrew Lynn. [REVIEW]Kevin Hargaden - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):923-926.
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    Being with Others and the Practice of Theodicy.Stuart Jesson - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):787-805.
    In this article I aim to highlight one aspect of what it is like to address the problem of evil. The discussion aims to show that the suffering of others comes to matter, in part, because of the way in which we are with others, and they with us. Through a sustained discussion of the film 12 Years a Slave, and drawing on the idea of joint attention, I suggest that the possibility of sharing attitudes with others is central to (...)
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    Unknowing (the End of) the World: Negative Eschatology and Political Theology.Jenny Leith, Peter Leith & King-Ho Leung - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):806-824.
    This article elucidates the significance of eschatology—particularly what may be called negative eschatology—for the task of political life. Through tracing some of the appeals to eschatological notions in recent political thinking and movements, we demonstrate some of the dangers of eschatology as a resource for political theology. The article then engages with the version of negative eschatology rendered by Vincent Lloyd, which holds out the possibility of experiencing a foretaste of the eschaton in moments of struggle against domination. The form (...)
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  8. The Ethics of Local Belonging: A Theology of Naming Place.Hannah Malcolm - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):825-843.
    This article offers a theological description of one practice necessary for good local belonging: the creative practice of naming local creatures, both human and non-human. I explore the practice of naming as forming local belonging in dialogue with new nature writers in the British Isles and Jean-Louis Chrétien. I offer a brief review of the scope of theologies of place in the United Kingdom before turning to the themes of displacement and naming in new British nature writing. Finally, I use (...)
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  9. Book Review: The Artifice of Intelligence: Divine and Human Relationship in a Robotic Age by Noreen Herzfeld. [REVIEW]Nathan Mladin - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):913-916.
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  10. ‘Who Can Forgive Sins but God Alone?’ Third-Party Forgiveness and Christian Practice.Andrew J. Peterson - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):844-866.
    In recent years, third-party forgiveness has received renewed attention, much of it negative. While a few have undertaken important attempts to defend or expound accounts of third-party forgiveness, many suspect that it is incoherent, vicious, or both. If true, this would be bad news for Christians, for Christians rely on notions of third-party forgiveness for their accounts of salvation and pastoral authority. I think there is reason to think that some notions of third-party forgiveness can overcome the critics’ worries. In (...)
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  11. Book Review: Our Hearts Are Restless: The Art of Spiritual Memoir by Richard Lischer. [REVIEW]Salvador Ryan - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):919-923.
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  12. Book Review: Ethics Lost in Modernity: Reflections on Wittgenstein and Bioethics by Matthew Vest. [REVIEW]Devan Stahl - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):938-941.
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    How Can Early Christian Thought Inform Doughnut Economics?David Stuart - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):867-889.
    Doughnut Economics is an economic model designed to overcome the negative impact that the crude use of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) can have on both society and the environment. As the model becomes more widely adopted it is important to explore the model from a theological perspective. Early Christian economic thought provides a way of exploring and challenging many of the fundamental ideas and conceptualisations of the DE model. DE has much to learn from early Christian thinkers. Firstly, a non-absolutist (...)
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  14. Book Review: Theology Without Borders: Essays in Honor of Peter C. Phan by Leo D. Lefebure (ed.). [REVIEW]Gerard Whelan - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):917-919.
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  15. Book Review: Deliver Us from Evil: A Call for Christians to Take Evil Seriously by John Swinton. [REVIEW]Niamh White - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):935-938.
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  16. Book Review: Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love—Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga by Peter Admirand. [REVIEW]Paul Wilson - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):910-913.
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  17. The Dynamics of Interiority and its Moral Significance in Augustine and Iris Murdoch.Abraham S.-C. Wu - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (4):890-909.
    In this article, I explore the moral significance of human interiority, examining how one's inner life has moral import vis-à-vis external, observable, or public behaviour. Contrary to views that problematize interiority or introspection, pitting them against truthful self-understanding, sociality, or public moral behaviour, I will draw on Augustine and Iris Murdoch as resources for reconsidering interiority's role in moral growth. First, I will show how both depict objective, ‘public’ moral behaviour as being fundamentally contingent upon subjective, ‘personal’ judgement, deliberation, and (...)
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    The Function of the Church in a Time of War: The Resolute Voices of Donald MacKinnon and Elizabeth Anscombe.John Berkman - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):619-642.
    It has been argued that Elizabeth Anscombe's writings on killing and just war in the 1950s and early 1960s were highly influential, not only on just war theorists (such as Michael Walzer and Thomas Nagel), but also on the recovery of just war thinking among the US and British military. In researching the sources for Anscombe's thought, it became clear that Donald MacKinnon's unknown early writings on social ethics and war inspired and influenced Anscombe's earliest thought on justice in war. (...)
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    Inhabiting the Kingdom: Theologies of Nonviolence in the Catholic Worker Movement.Anna Blackman - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):606-618.
    This article considers understandings of nonviolence within the Catholic Worker movement and their embodiment. The aim is to make the Worker's position theologically understandable, demonstrating how this drives their methods for action. The article argues that a particular ethic of nonviolence can be found within the movement, grounded within the aims of its founders and the current practices of the movement today, drawing on the example of the Jubilee Ploughshares 2000 from which the London Catholic Worker was founded to illustrate (...)
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    Reading the ‘Signs of the Time’: Just War Statecraft and the ‘Immorality’ of Nuclear Weapons.Christian Nikolaus Braun - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):538-549.
    This article grapples with the justifiability of nuclear deterrence in the aftermath of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. Disillusioned about the failed promise of nuclear disarmament, as well as other ethical issues inherent to nuclear weapons, Pope Francis has attached the immorality label not just to the use of the Bomb but also to its very possession. This step, which his predecessors hesitated to take during the Cold War and the quarter of a century after the fall of the (...)
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    Introduction to the Special Issue: Just War or Just Peace? The Future of Catholic Thinking on War and Peace.Christian Nikolaus Braun & Bernhard Koch - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):453-455.
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    Book Review: Apocalyptic Theopolitics: Essays and Sermons on Eschatology, Ethics, and Politics by Elizabeth Phillips. [REVIEW]Eric Bugyis - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):741-744.
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    Just War as a Theory, Just Peace as a Virtue.Lisa Sowle Cahill - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):456-470.
    Pope Francis both grants the right to use armed force in self-defense and regards all war as ‘a defeat for humanity’. This seeming paradox can be explained by the fact that what is a theoretically just use of force (according to the criteria of just war theory) inevitably results in unjust violence when carried out in practice. The undertaking, processes and practices of war are highly susceptible to what Augustine called the libido dominandi. The theory of just war is carried (...)
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    Catholic Ethics of War: On the Plausibility of Christian Pacifism.Adam Cebula - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):507-526.
    This article proposes three responses to the anti-war statements made recently by Pope Francis. The first one recapitulates the very foundations of the prevalent legal and ethical approaches to the issue of war—laid by the most influential Christian thinkers of all times, revisited on several occasions by their followers, and ultimately confirmed in the fairly recent documents articulating Catholic war ethics. The second discusses the specific mode of Francis's apparent repudiation of the doctrine of just war, implying the essential equalisation (...)
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    Book Review: Another Kind of Normal: Ethical Life II by Graham Ward. [REVIEW]Andrew Clark-Howard - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):747-749.
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    Book Review: Imagination in an Age of Crisis: Soundings from the Arts and Theology by Jason Goroncy and Rod Pattenden (eds.). [REVIEW]Joy Clarkson - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):731-733.
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    Book Review: The Early Barth: Lectures and Shorter Works. Volume 1: 1905–1909 by Karl Barth. [REVIEW]Benedict Coulter - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):710-713.
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  28. Book Review: Disciples and Friends: Investigations in Disability, Dementia, and Mental Health: Essays in Honor of John Swinton by Brian R. Brock and Armond Leon van Ommen (eds.). [REVIEW]Keith Dow - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):716-718.
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    Just War and Judgment in Fratelli Tutti.Joseph E. Capizzi - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):471-483.
    For decades the papal tradition has renounced the term ‘war’ as something around which to build an ethical approach. One can sympathize with this: resort to war seems the consequence of ethical failure and brings in its train a host of brutalities including rape, torture, and murder that harm both victims and perpetrators. But that view of ‘war’ is an incomplete representation of the possibilities of the uses of force to secure legitimate political goods. Thus the popes have struggled to (...)
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    Book Review: Lying and Truthfulness: A Thomistic Perspective by Stewart Clem. [REVIEW]Megan E. Heeder - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):721-724.
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    Incoherences and Incompatibilities: Just Peace and Just War in Contemporary German Protestantism.Therese Feiler - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):643-656.
    This article revisits some of the main tenets and problems of the Just Peace concept as developed in the German Protestant Church, showing how it is beset by incoherences, ironical returns of expanded violence, as well as the problem of abstraction: once the Just Peace concept is applied to concrete problems, it runs dry. The article then examines some recent contributions made under the wider umbrella of ‘peace ethics’, showing that attempts to combine the Just Peace and bellum iustum are (...)
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  32. Book Review: The Revolutionary Gospel: Paul Lehmann and the Direction of Theology Today by Nancy J. Duff, Ry O. Siggelkow and Brandon K. Watson (eds.). [REVIEW]Kevin Hargaden - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):729-731.
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    Book Review: Natural Philosophy: On Retrieving a Lost Disciplinary Imaginary by Alister E. McGrath. [REVIEW]Noreen Herzfeld - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):739-741.
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    Book Review: The Logic of Love: Christian Ethics and Moral Psychology by Andrew Cameron. [REVIEW]Conor M. Kelly - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):718-721.
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    Book Review: Nature and Command: On the Metaphysical Foundations of Morality by J. Caleb Clanton and Kraig Martin. [REVIEW]Elisabeth Rain Kincaid - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):713-715.
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    Just War or Just Peace: Some Observations on the Debate in Germany.Bernhard Koch - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):587-605.
    In the debate on peace ethics in Germany, it is constantly argued that the ‘doctrine of just war’ must be replaced by a ‘doctrine of just peace’. The criteriology of just war can at best be preserved within a doctrine of just peace. However, it is often overlooked that—although the word ‘peace’ may sound nicer than ‘war’—a doctrine of just peace is also fraught with great difficulties in terms of content. The concept of peace can be interpreted in different ways; (...)
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    Conclusion: Christian Traditions of War and Peace.Anthony F. Lang Jr - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):704-709.
    This article provides an overview of the contributions to this special issue. It organizes the contributions through three conceptual lenses: the person, the state, and the church.
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    Book Review: Participation and Atonement: An Analytic and Constructive Account by Oliver D. Crisp. [REVIEW]David McIlroy - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):728-729.
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    Book Review: The Reign of God: A Critical Engagement with Oliver O’Donovan’s Theology of Political Authority by Jonathan Cole. [REVIEW]Jeff Morgan - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):724-728.
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    Book Review: Test All Things: The Bible, Faith, and Science by Gijsbert van den Brink. [REVIEW]Michael Agerbo Mørch - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):744-747.
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    Between Pacifism and Just War: Oikonomia and Eastern Orthodox Political Theology.Vassilios Paipais - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):657-668.
    Scholars have often focused on the doctrinal and canonical reasons for the lack of a just war tradition in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The consensus seems to be that the Eastern Orthodox Church, for historical as well as theological reasons, has never developed a doctrine for the justification or the containment of war but was rather orientated to the question of peace (albeit without being pacifist) and the theological imperative of deification. There is, however, another reason why just war concerns (...)
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    Book Review: On Paul Holmer: A Philosophy and a Theology by Tim Labron (ed.). [REVIEW]Martin D. Phillips - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):735-739.
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    On Limited Force: Prudence Below the Threshold of War.Esther D. Reed - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):550-569.
    This article asks how military ethics should respond to adversaries deliberately conducting hostilities below the threshold of war. Three options are considered: a novel, limited force paradigm; an expanded hostilities paradigm, i.e., within the law of armed conflict; and an international law enforcement paradigm derived primarily from human rights law. None is problem-free. Mindful of under-deployed classic just war reasoning arguments for discrimination between vices opposed to peace, this article argues against an expanded hostilities paradigm and shows that the retributive, (...)
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    The Doctrinal Status of Just War in the Contemporary Teaching of the Catholic Magisterium.Gregory M. Reichberg - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):484-506.
    This article examines the doctrinal status of just war in the contemporary teaching of the Catholic magisterium. Some passages from Pope Francis’s 2020 encyclical Fratelli tutti, On Fraternity and Social Friendship appear to exclude the just war idea from the social doctrine of the Catholic Church. To gauge whether this is so, the article establishes a baseline comparison to the seminal teaching of Thomas Aquinas on peace and just war. Both St. Thomas and Pope Francis proceed from the assumption that (...)
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    Book Review: Discipleship and Unity: Bonhoeffer’s Ecumenical Theology by Cole Jodon. [REVIEW]Andrew Root - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):733-735.
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    Renewing the Challenge of Peace through the Promise of Active Nonviolence.Anna Floerke Scheid - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):570-586.
    In 1983 the US bishops issued a deeply influential pastoral letter, The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response, which addressed moral questions of warfare, particularly in the context of the Cold War. Four decades later, it is clear that the challenge to build just and peaceful societies is still with us in the US and throughout the world. This article supports the development of new documents—whether episcopal or papal—to center nonviolence in Catholic teaching, to demonstrate the value and (...)
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    The War in Ukraine: Challenges to Just War Doctrines in Eastern Orthodoxy.Yuri Stoyanov - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):669-692.
    The sequence and escalation of Russian–Ukrainian political and military conflicts since 2014, culminating in Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, have reopened interest in and debates on just war theory and practice in general and specifically in historic and modern Eastern Orthodox cultures and Orthodox-majority states. These debates have significant repercussions in areas like church–state and church–military relations in these cultures; ecclesial involvement in these conflicts has varied from war-justification rhetoric (in the case of the Russian Orthodox Church) to (...)
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    No Peace without Justice, Just War as a Moral Frame of Reference.Fred van Iersel & Bart van Dijk - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):527-537.
    This article discusses the question of the possibility of moral and ethical grounds for the justification of the use of violence in modern times international conflicts. And specifically, how does the tradition of just war fit into this discussion? For this, a closer look at what just war thinking means is necessary. In this respect we would describe just war thinking more as a just war tradition than a just war theory, as there is no encompassing theory on just war. (...)
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    Eastern Churches in the Face of Fratricidal War during Russia's Invasion of Ukraine.Robert Wawer - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (3):693-703.
    Eastern Churches in Russia and Ukraine are facing the fratricidal war caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. These Churches maintain closeness in faith and liturgy. The similarities of these Churches’ teachings on war are juxtaposed with actual manifestations of their hierarchs’ hostility. The analysis will be carried out from the perspective of the Roman Catholic Church, which is in close unity with the Eastern Churches and understands the context of faith but is not a party to the conflict, which makes (...)
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    Does Idolatry Harm Your Neighbor? A Veblenian Approach to the Ethics of the Prophets.Andrew Blosser - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):205-227.
    Biblical prophetic writings display an unexplained interweaving of anti-idolatry themes with social justice themes. This article offers a link between these ethical foci by appealing to Thorstein Veblen's philosophical economics. Veblen and his more recent followers such as Fred Hirsch argue that upper classes glorify valueless expenditures and activities (conspicuous consumption and leisure) as a means of signaling predatory status. Veblen further theorizes that this process can manifest itself in religious practices and language, appearing when a deity is honored through (...)
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    Book Review: Christian Social Ethics by Elmar Nass. [REVIEW]Daniel Canning - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):422-425.
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    Book Review: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theology of Representation: God, Drama, and Salvation by Jacob Lett. [REVIEW]Guido de Graaff - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):417-420.
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    Book Review: Recovering Christian Character: The Psychological Wisdom of Søren Kierkegaard by Robert C. Roberts. [REVIEW]Aaron P. Edwards - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):429-432.
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    Book Review: On the Eighth Day: A Catholic Theology of Sport by Matt Hoven, J.J. Carney and Max T. Engel. [REVIEW]Robert Ellis - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):412-414.
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    Book Review: Beyond Establishment: Resetting Church–State Relations in England by Jonathan Chaplin. [REVIEW]Joseph Forde - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):400-402.
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    Book Review: On the Nature, Limits, Meaning, and End of Work by Zachary Thomas Settle. [REVIEW]Kevin Hargaden - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):436-438.
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  57. Evangelical Ecotheology: How the Resurrection Entails Creation Care.Martin Jakobsen - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):228-247.
    This article advocates evangelical environmental care by grounding an ethic of nature at the centre of evangelical theology, namely, in Christ and his resurrection. As Paul points out in 1 Corinthians 15, the continuity between our earthly bodies and our resurrected bodies entails that we should take care of our bodies. Drawing on Romans 8, I argue that the same line of reasoning applies to nature: the continuity between creation and the new creation entails that we should take care of (...)
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    Book Review: On Signs, Christ, Truth and the Interpretation of Scripture by Susannah Ticciati. [REVIEW]E. S. Kempson - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):438-442.
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    Book Review: Liberation for the Earth: Climate, Race and Cross by A. M. Ranawana. [REVIEW]Keunwoo Kwon - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):432-436.
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    In Search of Common Ground: How Can Eastern Orthodox Theology Develop a Natural Law Theory?Angelos Mavropoulos - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):248-263.
    While natural law theory plays an important role for Catholic moral theology, it is true that Orthodox ethics has not endeavoured to develop its own theory of natural law. This article demonstrates the existence of the concept of natural law in Eastern Orthodox theology and argues that the main reason for this neglect is Eastern Christianity's traditional focus on faith rather than reason. In addition, the author, based on biblical and patristic grounds, highlights the necessity for a balance between the (...)
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    Can Science Inform Christian Ethical Reflection on Gender Identity?Neil Messer - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):264-283.
    This article explores whether and how research into biological influences on gender identity can and should inform Christian ethical reflection on gender diversity and gender nonconformity. First, the current state of genetic and neuroscientific research on gender identity is surveyed. While the scientific findings are as yet preliminary, tentative, and sometimes contradictory, researchers argue that they already give grounds for thinking that many biological factors have some influence on gender identity through complex interactions with many social and environmental factors. Next, (...)
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    The Political Limits and Possibilities of the Eucharist: A Theatrical Intervention.Liam Miller - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):284-302.
    In this article I build on recent critiques of theological accounts of the eucharistic which overextend the practice's potential to form a Christian ethic and alternative polis. In analysing these critiques, often drawing on historical and contemporary cases of Christian malformation and its basis in liturgical practice, I suggest a greater distinction is needed between the practice's ability to raise political consciousness and the necessity of separate material political action. I approach this reconfiguration through appeal to debates on the political (...)
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    Book Review: The Destruction of the Canaanites: God, Genocide and Biblical Interpretation by Charlie Trimm. [REVIEW]Neil J. Morrison - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):442-446.
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    Book Review: Systematic Theology as a Rationally Justified Public Discourse about God by Michael Agerbo Mørch. [REVIEW]Benjamin Murphy - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):397-399.
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    What Makes an Ethical Account a Natural Law Ethical Account? Contemporary Ethics, Metaethics, and Normative Ethics.John D. O’Connor - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):303-326.
    What makes ethical accounts natural law ethical is, I argue, commonly misrepresented in teaching within much of the philosophical academy. Yet those immersed in the field of natural law and ethics rarely give definitions/brief characterisations of what makes ethical accounts natural law ethical. I suggest theoretical reasons for the lack. I argue that bringing natural law into ethics is best understood as leading to theoretically unitary accounts, not simply collections of positions detachable from each other: an overlooked and significant point (...)
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    Book Review: Tragic Dilemmas in Christian Ethics by Kate Jackson-Meyer. [REVIEW]Daniel Rhodes - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):414-416.
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    Book Review: Christianity and the Nation-State: A Study in Political Theology by Gary Chartier. [REVIEW]Patrick Riordan - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):402-405.
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    Book Review: Otherness and Identity in the Gospel of John by Sung Uk Lim. [REVIEW]Iii Rodolfo Galvan Estrada - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):446-449.
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    Scripture's Authorisation of Concepts in Oliver O’Donovan's Ethics and Theology.Euntaek David Shin - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):327-343.
    A key aspect of Oliver O’Donovan's approach to ethics and theology is the notion of Scripture's ‘authorisation’ of concepts. Authorisation is an organic process of concepts and Scripture illuminating each other, where Scripture has ultimate authority over concepts. That is, while concepts from various disciplines can illuminate biblical texts, the biblical texts in return shape those concepts. Here concepts are formed organically guided by the Spirit. Such a notion of authorisation lies dormant in O’Donovan's earlier political theology, The Desire of (...)
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    Book Review: The Ethics of Tainted Legacies: Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts by Karen V. Guth. [REVIEW]Sarah Shin - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):408-412.
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    Power, Possibility, and Personal Agency: What Should Ethics Know of Sin?Samuel Tranter - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):344-366.
    One striking feature of apocalyptic readings of Paul—and the Protestant dogmatics that follows after such a Paulinism—is the ‘widescreen’ portrayal of Sin as Power. This account stresses the ‘three-agent drama’ of salvation and the bondage of human persons to anti-God forces. It resists moralising interpretations of human sins in favour of a starker moral cosmology. In this way, it seems to leave ‘ethics’ and ‘freedom’ in suspension. Contrast the approach of the moral theologian Oliver O’Donovan. Here, sin is a case (...)
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    Book Review: A Supreme Love: The Music of Jazz and the Hope of the Gospel by William Edgar. [REVIEW]Maeve Heaney Vdmf - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):406-408.
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    Book Review: Women and the Gender of God by Amy Peeler. [REVIEW]Alison Walker - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):425-429.
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    What Does Neoliberalism Mean for Christian Ethics?Kate Ward - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):383-396.
    This article reviews three new books analysing the phenomenon of neoliberalism through religious lenses and comments on how Christian ethics should navigate among various distinct uses of the term ‘neoliberalism’ and the solutions a Christian ethical approach proposes to the ways in which neoliberalism harms humans and societies.
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    Beyond Religion: A Bonhoefferian Discussion of Ecclesial Repentance in the Aftermath of Abuse.Christopher Whyte - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):367-382.
    Abuse, when committed by spiritual authority figures, can have far-reaching consequences for church communities well after perpetrators have been removed and held accountable. In attending to survivors, a host of issues may come to light, including but not limited to, organizational complicity in abuse, institutional marginalization of the vulnerable, and the revelation that worship spaces can be traumatically triggering. The work of scholars like Michelle Panchuk, Elaine Heath, and Katharina von Kellenbach all point to the challenging reality that ecclesial repentance­ (...)
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    Book Review: Karl Barth’s Moral Thought by Gerald McKenny. [REVIEW]Luke Zerra - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (2):420-422.
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    Book Review: Common Callings and Ordinary Virtues: Christian Ethics for Everyday Life by Brent Waters. [REVIEW]Michael Banner - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):201-202.
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    Book Review: Ransomed, Redeemed, and Forgiven: Money and the Atonement by David H. McIlroy. [REVIEW]Dan Bell - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):167-170.
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    Book Review: From Inclusion to Justice: Disability, Ministry, and Congregational Leadership by Erin Raffety. [REVIEW]Talitha Cooreman-Guittin - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):188-191.
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    Decolonial Homophobia: Is Decolonisation Incompatible with LGBT+ Affirmation in Christian Ethics?Caleb M. Day - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):71-92.
    I evaluate the argument advanced in politics and Christian ethics that I term ‘decolonial homophobia’: that decolonisation and LGBT+ affirmation are contradictory because LGBT+ rights are a global Northern phenomenon that is imperialistically imposed on the global South. I suggest one premise of the argument is valid—neo-colonial imposition of LGBT+ rights does happen and should be opposed. However, the overall argument fails because it erases or distorts diverse views and complexities of pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial history, and it tacitly supports (...)
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    Book Review: Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography by Émile Perreau-Saussine. [REVIEW]Shannon Dunn - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):186-188.
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    ‘Forgive Us Our Trespasses’: The Critical Role, Responsibility and Rights of Ethics in Confronting the Enlightenment's Pride and Prejudice.Stacey M. Floyd-Thomas - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):54-65.
    While postmodernists have claimed that the failure of the Enlightenment was a failure of philosophical courage, this plenary address explores how its greatest shortcoming actually was its hubris. Paying attention to how Western scholars have centered pride in their elitist purview was their ultimate worldview, this article examines ‘pride’ as the doctrinal dimension of the good life in contemporary Western society and culture. Furthermore, it implores postmodern Christian social ethicists to reform their stewardship to the telos of the field's highest (...)
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    Book Review: Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent by Emily Dumler-Winckler. [REVIEW]Eilidh Galbraith - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):143-145.
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    Book Review: A History of Catholic Theological Ethics by James F. Keenan, SJ. [REVIEW]Kevin Hargaden - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):155-158.
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    Teaching Christian Ethics Beyond Europe and North America: From a Postgraduate Research Seminar to a Theology of Listening.Robert W. Heimburger, Samuel Efraín Murillo Torres & James Wesly Sam - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):93-110.
    This article explores the process of teaching Christian theological ethics beyond the common focus on European and North American sources. In conversation with moves to decolonise university curricula, the article proposes a theology of listening, an example of a research seminar for master’s and doctoral students at the University of Aberdeen on Christian ethics beyond Europe and North America, and an exploration of broader challenges for the formation of the theologian. The article asks, what can we learn when we give (...)
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    Book Review: Reforming a Theology of Gender: Constructive Reflections on Judith Butler and Queer Theory by Daniel R. Patterson. [REVIEW]Brianne Jacobs - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):178-181.
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    Race, Caste and Christian Ethics: A Decolonial Proposal.Anderson Jeremiah - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):19-35.
    Christian ethical imagination was always tempered by various social prejudices prevalent in local contexts. Particularly during modernity and subsequently through colonial expansion, the role of race and caste became central to the expansion of Christianity through missionary activity. A closer scrutiny of colonial missionary Christianity clearly suggests the significance of racialised worldview shaping theological and ethical paradigms. In particular contexts, such racialised imagination underpinned and gave credence to other forms of social prejudices, such as caste in South Asia. Through a (...)
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    Book Review: Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition by Mark Douglas. [REVIEW]Laurie Johnston - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):142-143.
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    Book Review: Discipleship in a World Full of Nazis: Recovering the True Legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Mark Thiessen Nation. [REVIEW]JinHyok Kim - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):197-201.
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    Book Review: Bioethics for Nurses: A Christian Moral Vision by Alisha N. Mack, Charles C. Camosy. [REVIEW]Holly Lear - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):161-164.
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    Book Review: After Science and Religion: Fresh Perspectives from Theology and Philosophy by Peter Harrison, John Milbank, and Paul Tyson (eds). [REVIEW]Joanna Leidenhag - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):147-152.
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    Book Review: Human Technological Enhancement and Theological Anthropology by Victoria Lorrimar. [REVIEW]Michael McCarthy - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):158-161.
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    Book Review: Schleiermacher’s Theology of Sin and Nature by Daniel J. Pederson. [REVIEW]Jared Michelson - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):181-185.
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    Book Review: The Ethics of Grace: Engaging Gerald McKenny by Michael Mawson and Paul Martens (eds.). [REVIEW]Ashley Moyse - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):164-167.
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    Book Review: Christian Ethics: A New Covenant Model by Hak Joon Lee. [REVIEW]Ryan Andrew Newson - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):152-155.
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    Book Review: Theology and Technology, Volume 1: Essays in Christian Analysis by Carl Mitcham, Jim Grote, Levi Checketts (eds.). Theology and Technology, Volume 2: Essays in Christian Exegesis and Historical Theology by Carl Mitcham, Jim Grote, Levi Checketts (eds.). [REVIEW]Kate Ott - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):170-173.
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    Book Review: Before and Beyond the ‘Big Society’: John Milbank and the Church of England’s Approach to Welfare by Joseph Forde. [REVIEW]Charles Pemberton - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):145-147.
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    A Response to the Question of Pride and Prejudice in Stacey Floyd-Thomas's ‘Forgive Us Our Trespasses’.Victoria Phillips - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):66-70.
    Dr. Floyd-Thomas’s paper brings nuance to the discussion of pride and the hubris brought by the Westernized Enlightenment across disciplines. As much as I have the impulse to throttle others or shout or spit with the onslaught of mis-truths and ‘alternative facts’, this would not be a wise moment to conclude inquiry as an oral historian, or a Christian ethicist. I ask, can we decolonize ourselves, our syllabi, the canon, and thus our students with grace, understanding, even forgiveness so as (...)
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    Book Review: Bearing Witness: Intersectional Perspectives on Trauma Theology by Karen O’Donnell and Katie Cross (eds.). [REVIEW]Maria Power - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):173-176.
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    Book Review: Tomorrow’s Troubles: Risk, Uncertainty and Prudence in an Age of Algorithmic Governance by Paul Scherz. [REVIEW]Matthew Prior - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):195-197.
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    From Black Theology to Black Lives Matter and Back Again.Anthony G. Reddie - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):39-48.
    This article is written by a descendant of enslaved Africans and explores the theological significance of Black bodies. Black bodies have been commodified, controlled and coerced by White hegemony, often lacking agency and self-determination. Using personal experience and contextual analysis, this article, drawing on Black theology inspired reflections, argues that we need to rethink how we conceive of Black bodies ethically, if Black lives are to really matter. The rehabilitation of Black bodies is achieved through a theological reappraisal of holiness (...)
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    Lament, Liturgy, and the Shape of Theological Repentance: A Response to Anthony Reddie.Sarah Shin - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):49-53.
    In this reflection, I respond to Anthony Reddie's reflections and assertions about the sacramentality of black flesh in a world shaped by white supremacy. I locate myself as Korean American and refer to my experience of ministering to university students during the rise of Black Lives Matter in the US. Instead of offering cognate claims for the sacramentality of Asian flesh, I ask what theological repentance should look like in light of the historical profaning of the black body. Using the (...)
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    The Ethics of Perfection: Exploring the Ethical Implications of Wesley's Doctrine of Perfection.Michael D. Simants - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):111-121.
    If one were to prioritise the most important contributions of John Wesley, within that list would be the contribution of his Doctrine of Christian Perfection. The development of this doctrine was a life-long project for Wesley, who always held the core belief that the telos of perfection was love for God and one's neighbour. Wesley's Doctrine of Christian Perfection found its most comprehensive outline in his 1743 manuscript, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection. This article will argue that Wesley's ethics, (...)
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    Can Christian Ethics be Saved? Colonialism, Racial Justice and the Task of Decolonising Christian Theology.Selina Stone - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):3-18.
    Christian ethical practice has historically fallen short, when we consider the histories of European colonial violence from the sixteenth century and the transatlantic slave trade in Africans. Today, Christian ethics can fail to uphold a standard of resistance to contemporary evils, including racial injustice. To what extent can Christian ethics break with this history and be saved? This article considers the ongoing colonial tendencies of Christian ethics and theological education in Britain, before considering the centrality of decolonisation, primarily ‘of the (...)
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    Book Review: Augustine’s Preached Theology: Living as the Body of Christ by J. Patout Burns Jr. [REVIEW]Ryan Tinetti - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):176-178.
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    A Critical Response to ‘Race, Caste and Christian Ethics: A Decolonial Proposal’.Christopher Wadibia - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):36-38.
    The colonial period of Christian expansion was plagued by practices and systems that exploited non-European indigenous populations for the endgame interests of enriching the treasuries of European imperial powers and promoting Eurocentrism. Anderson Jeremiah has written an important paper that explains how the concepts of race and the caste system in South Asia functioned in the context of colonial Christian expansion, and argues that postcolonial Christian actors should prioritise intentionally replacing dehumanising forms of missional activity with the four ethically decolonising (...)
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    Resisting the Building Project of Whiteness: A Theological Reflection on Land Ownership in the Church of England.Alison Walker - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):122-141.
    Willie James Jennings contends that the goal of whiteness is the creation and preservation of segregated space. For Jennings, whiteness, as well as upholding perceived notions of white normativity, is a way of being in the world, an imagined reality made real by our movement in physical space which destroys the identity-forming connections between communities and land. In this article I bring together Pope Francis’s reflections on the globalised economy in Laudato Si’ with the critiques of James H. Cone and (...)
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    Book Review: The Promise of Social Enterprise: A Theological Exploration of Faithful Economic Practice by Mark Sampson. [REVIEW]Matt Williams - 2024 - Studies in Christian Ethics 37 (1):191-195.
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