Karen V. Guth

Ethics of Tainted Legacies (eBook, ePUB)

Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What do we do when a beloved comedian known as "e;America's Dad"e; is convicted of sexual assault? Or when the man who wrote "e;all men are created equal"e; owned slaves? Or when priests are exposed as pedophiles? From the popular to the political to the profound, each day brings new revelations that respected people, traditions, and institutions are not what we thought they were. Despite the shock that these revelations produce, this state of affairs is anything but new. The problem of what to do when those we revere are shown to be compromised is a fundamental existential condition. In this book, Karen V. Guth identifies "e;tainted legacies"e; as a pressing contemporary moral problem and ethical challenge. Constructing a typology of responses to compromised thinkers, traditions, and institutions, she demonstrates the relevance of age-old debates in Christian theology for those who confront legacies tarnished by the traumas of slavery, racism, and sexual violence.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009121033
• Artikelnr.: 66176849

Autorenporträt

Karen V. Guth is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is the author of Christian Ethics at the Boundary: Feminism and Theologies of Public Life (Fortress, 2015) and numerous articles in publications including the Journal of Religious Ethics, the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, and the Christian Century.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Tainted legacies: morally injurious 'remainders' of traumatic pasts; 2.
Common responses to tainted legacies; 3. 'Biblical birthright' and the
#MeToo movement: feminist and womanist biblical scholarship on how to read
cultural texts of terror; 4. Heritage and hate: womanist ethics and the
confederate monuments debate; 5. Inheriting America's original sin: can our
alma maters make amends for slavery?; 6. Individual and institutional
responses to John Howard Yoder's tainted legacy: fostering flourishing from
a traumatic past.