Add to ORKGOver many years, American political theorist William E. Connolly has offered a sustained critique of the “politics of morality.” Connolly made his case initially by attacking themes in the theological writings of Augustine of Hippo. In response to Connolly’s initial challenge, this essay promotes a conception of Christian ethics that reflects other Augustinian themes than those Connolly resisted. Drawing on the work of H. Richard Niebuhr and Sam Wells, I show how Christian ethicists have developed accounts of improvised responsibility. The essay concludes that such accounts are congruent with Connolly’s vision of politics as critical pluralism based on agonistic respect
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Some systems of authoritarian, Christian ethics present a very straightforward, unambiguous, concise...
Largely rejecting Christian faith and every other recognition of human dependence upon transcendent ...
The idea that men and women are morally responsible outside of particular social practices and conv...
This thesis examines the challenges to Christian ethics posed by the model of round table dialogue....
How do practices contribute to the formation of the mind of Christ in community such that the commun...
Through the evaluation and comparison of Machiavellian, Nietzschean, and Christian political thought...
This paper examines how the ancient Greek and Hellenistic notions of political ethics were incorpora...
Using Alasdair MacIntyre\u27s work as a methodological guide for doing ethics in the Christian tradi...
I argue that anarchist ideas for organising human communities could be a useful practical resource f...
Some theorists are suspicious of normative political theology because they believe it undermines cri...
This article addresses Connolly's project in democratic theory against the background of Aristotle's...
Building upon the tradition of the New Political Theology and Iiberation, decolonial, and feminist t...
In lieu of an abstract, below is the essay\u27s first paragraph. From an ethical standpoint, Jesus’...
Ought we conceive of theological ethics as an activity that draws from a community\u27s vision of hu...
Summary This paper examines contemporary virtue ethics and the claim that Christian ethic...
Some systems of authoritarian, Christian ethics present a very straightforward, unambiguous, concise...
Largely rejecting Christian faith and every other recognition of human dependence upon transcendent ...
The idea that men and women are morally responsible outside of particular social practices and conv...
This thesis examines the challenges to Christian ethics posed by the model of round table dialogue....
How do practices contribute to the formation of the mind of Christ in community such that the commun...