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Book Review: Augustine’s Preached Theology: Living as the Body of Christ by J. Patout Burns Jr. Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Ryan Tinetti
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Book Review: Christian Ethics: A New Covenant Model by Hak Joon Lee Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Ryan Andrew Newson
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Book Review: Human Technological Enhancement and Theological Anthropology by Victoria Lorrimar Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Michael McCarthy
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Book Review: Common Callings and Ordinary Virtues: Christian Ethics for Everyday Life by Brent Waters Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Michael Banner
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Book Review: Schleiermacher’s Theology of Sin and Nature by Daniel J. Pederson Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Jared Michelson
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Book Review: Modern Virtue: Mary Wollstonecraft and a Tradition of Dissent by Emily Dumler-Winckler Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Eilidh Galbraith
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Book Review: From Inclusion to Justice: Disability, Ministry, and Congregational Leadership by Erin Raffety Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Talitha Cooreman-Guittin
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Book Review: Tomorrow’s Troubles: Risk, Uncertainty in an Age of Algorithmic Governance by Paul Scherz Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Matthew Prior
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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.). Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Kate Ott
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Book Review: A History of Catholic Theological Ethics by James F. Keenan, SJ Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Kevin Hargaden
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Book Review: Ransomed, Redeemed, and Forgiven: Money and the Atonement by David H. McIlroy Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Dan Bell
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Book Review: Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition by Mark Douglas Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Laurie Johnston
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Book Review: The Promise of Social Enterprise: A Theological Exploration of Faithful Economic Practice by Mark Sampson Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Matt Williams
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Book Review: Bioethics for Nurses: A Christian Moral Vision by Alisha N. Mack, Charles C. Camosy Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Holly Lear
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Book Review: The Ethics of Grace: Engaging Gerald McKenny by Michael Mawson and Paul Martens (eds.) Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Ashley Moyse
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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 Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Charles Pemberton
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Book Review: Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography by Émile Perreau-Saussine Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Shannon Dunn
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What Makes an Ethical Account a Natural Law Ethical Account? Contemporary Ethics, Metaethics, and Normative Ethics Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-11 John D. O’Connor
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
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Power, Possibility, and Personal Agency: What Should Ethics Know of Sin? Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Samuel Tranter
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’
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What Does Neoliberalism Mean for Christian Ethics? Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Kate Ward
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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Can Science Inform Christian Ethical Reflection on Gender Identity? Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Neil Messer
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
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Beyond Religion: A Bonhoefferian Discussion of Ecclesial Repentance in the Aftermath of Abuse Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Christopher Whyte
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
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Evangelical Ecotheology: How the Resurrection Entails Creation Care Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Martin Jakobsen
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:
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Race, Caste and Christian Ethics: A Decolonial Proposal Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Anderson Jeremiah
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
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Artificial Intelligence (and Christianity): Who? What? Where? When? Why? and How? Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-05-04 George M. Coghill
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a high-profile subject these days. In its brief history it has undergone several highs and lows and suffered from significant degrees of hype as well as antagonism a...
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Could a Conscious Machine Deliver Pastoral Care? Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Andrew Proudfoot
Could Artificial Intelligence (AI) play an active role in delivering pastoral care? The question rests not only on whether an AI could be considered an autonomous agent, but on whether such an agen...
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The Troubled Inheritance of Jean Vanier: Locating the Fatal Theological Mistakes Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Brian Brock
Jean Vanier's life and teaching bore good fruit, but what is good was wrapped up from the very beginning with manipulative and abusive behaviors justified in theological language. For those of us w...
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Ordering Reasons, Mediating Virtues: How and Why Thomas Aquinas Affirmed the Compatibility of Acquired and Infused Moral Virtue Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-04-11 David Decosimo
How should we conceive the interplay of nature and grace in Christian ethical life when it comes to the virtues? How did Thomas Aquinas conceive it? For Thomas, grace-given, infused moral virtues c...
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Toward Antifragility: Social Defeat Stress Enhances Learning and Memory in Young Mice Via Hippocampal Synaptosome Associated Protein 25 Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Liu Yang, Li-Jun Shi, Shi-Yu Shen, Jing-Yan Yang, Su-Su Lv, Zhe-Chen Wang, Qian Huang, Wen-Dong Xu, Jin Yu, Yu-Qiu Zhang
Social adversity not only causes severe psychological diseases but also may improve people’s ability to learn and grow. However, the beneficial effects of social adversity are often ignored. In thi...
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Hidden Pitches in Major League Baseball: What Are the Injury Implications of These Often Overlooked Pitches? Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Brandon J. Erickson, Paul Buchheit, Joseph Rauch, Rob Segedin, Michael G. Ciccotti, Steven B. Cohen
Background:Pitch counts are tightly monitored in Major League Baseball (MLB). Hidden pitches—including warm-up pitches before and between innings and pitches before the starting/relieving pitcher’s...
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The Black pill pipeline: A process-tracing analysis of the Incel’s continuum of violent radicalization Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Robert Green, Kurt Fowler, Allan Palombi
Incels represent a subculture born on the Internet and unified by their inability to establish and maintain sexual relationships with women. When new members enter, they are placed at the beginning...
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Experimental and numerical investigation of stringer’s 90° plies optimization of composite material stiffened panels Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Xiulu Zhang, Huihui Miao, Wenjun Song, Changyou Li, Guocheng Lv, Caiwen Fang
In this paper, the optimal design of I- and T-shaped stringer’s 90° plies is investigated to improve the performance of composite stiffened panel’s strength and curing deformation. A theoretical me...
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Awe Correlates With Resilience to COVID-19 Stressors Independent of Religiosity Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Jeanette M. Braswell, Eric C. Prichard
Awe is an emotion defined by an experience of vastness and cognitive accommodation that is unique among other positive emotions in that its cognitive effects are more similar to those of negative e...
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Queerly departed: Queer viral socialities and Caribbean migrant desires Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-04-11 David AB Murray
In this paper I explore the transnational journeys of a group of queer HIV positive (HIV+) Caribbean migrants moving between Canada and the Caribbean. I focus on queer orientations and viral status...
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Just Dead, Not Alive: Reconsidering Belief in Contradictory Conspiracy Theories Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Jan-Willem van Prooijen, Iris Wahring, Laura Mausolf, Nicole Mulas, Shayda Shwan
A well-established finding is that beliefs in contradictory conspiracy theories (e.g., Princess Diana was murdered vs. faked her own death) are positively correlated. This is commonly interpreted a...
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Triadic Differences and Theological Coherence: Oliver O’Donovan's Reflections on Friendship as a Locus for Comparing Resurrection and Moral Order and Ethics as Theology Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Aden Cotterill
This article leverages the theme of friendship in Oliver O’Donovan's Entering into Rest as a locus of comparison between his earlier Resurrection and Moral Order and the Ethics as Theology trilogy....
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For the Sake of Ourself: Eudaimonism, Friendship, and the Problem of Proprietary Beatitude Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Dominic Verner
In this article, I defend Thomistic eudaimonism against John Hare's Kantian charge of unacceptable self-regard, and argue that Hare's own Scotistic-Kantian double-source theory of motivation introd...
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Humility, Fear, and the Relationship between the Gifts and Infused Virtues in Thomas Aquinas Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Adam Eitel
In the Secunda secundae of his masterwork, the Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas contends that reverence (an affection elicited by the gift of fear) is both the principle and cause of humility (an i...
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A Theological Account of Artificial Moral Agency Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Ximian Xu
This article seeks to explore the idea of artificial moral agency from a theological perspective. By drawing on the Reformed theology of archetype-ectype, it will demonstrate that computational art...
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The Problem of Suffering: The Exemplarist Theodicy Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Joshua R. Sijuwade
This article aims to provide a response to the problem of suffering through an explication of a new theodicy termed the Exemplarist Theodicy. This specific theodicy will be formulated in light of t...
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Harms, Wrongs, and Medical Moral Injury Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Andrew Sloane
In this article I explore the contribution of ethical analysis and theological reflection to understanding and responding to moral injury of healthcare workers in light of the COVID pandemic. I beg...
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‘Spiritual Training’ and Growth in Infused Virtue: Aquinas’s Model in Historical Context Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-02-14 David Elliot
This article examines the important role and historical context of spiritual ‘training’ (exercitium) in St. Thomas Aquinas’s account of infused virtue growth. The traditional practice of spiritual ...
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Passion, Reason and the Virtues as Perfecting Habits Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Jean Porter
According to the spontaneity view of the role of the passions in moral deliberation, Aquinas holds that virtuous passions play an active role in moral deliberation, prior to the formation of moral ...
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Are the Actions of a Person Operating Out of the Gifts the Same as the Actions of That Person Operating Out of Infused Virtue? Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-01-12 William C. Mattison, III
Are the actions of a person operating out of the gifts of the Holy Spirit the same as the actions of that person operating out of infused virtue? Answering this question provides an opportunity to ...
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Habits, Triggers and Moral Formation Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Angela Knobel
This article examines moral change, primarily through the lens of Summa Theologiae I-II 49–50. I argue that the specific difference Aquinas asserts between habits and dispositions allows for the po...
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Led by God in Freedom: Lessons on Prudence and Moral Transformation from Aquinas’s Commentary on Romans Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Anton ten Klooster
Moral transformation is the process by which a person grows in holiness. The grace of the Holy Spirit enables this growth. This article explores how the notion of ‘prudence of the Spirit’ in Aquina...
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Calvin and Covenant Marriage: A Critical Genealogy Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Charles Guth, III
Many Christians treat marriage as a covenant. An influential group of contemporary Christians argues that covenant marriage provides a response to what they regard as the social ills of high divorc...
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A Thomistic Account of Virtue as Expertise Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Brandon Dahm
A healthy Thomism is one engaged with the discoveries and challenges of other traditions and disciplines. In this article I argue for one way of integrating Thomistic ethics and recent work in psyc...
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Cities of Refuge: An Exploration of Sanctuary and Restorative Culture in the Hebrew Bible1 Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2022-10-19 Jayme R. Reaves
The cities of refuge as detailed in the Deuteronomic witness in the Hebrew Bible have served as the inspiration and model for the practice of providing sanctuary for many throughout the centuries, ...
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Learning Race Theology: Four Recent Encounters Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Taido Chino
This article reviews four recently published books which help to deepen one’s understanding of the various ways white Christians (mostly in America) have often unknowingly propagated a form of Chri...
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Does the Gospel Require Self-Sacrifice? Paul and the Reconfiguration of the Self Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2022-10-13 John M.G. Barclay
Some modern Christian notions of ‘self-sacrifice’ and ‘cruciformity’ abstract an ethic of self-negation from its larger theological and teleological frame. A distinctively modern and Western trajec...
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Clarifying Core Elements of New Testament Normativity Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2022-10-12 Thomas Finegan
An intriguing though little noticed trend within moral theology over the last half century or so is the move towards re-conceptualising moral norms previously considered mandatory into ideals. The ...
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The Ethical Challenge of Decolonisation and the Future of New Testament Studies Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2022-10-12 David G. Horrell
The challenge to decolonise academic disciplines has been pertinent for many decades, but it has recently come to a new level of prominence, with vigorous discussion of what responding to this chal...
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Undocumented Prudent Immigrants: De-Centering Romans 13 and Rule of Law in Immigration Ethics Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2022-08-30 D. Glenn Butner, Jr.
Romans 13:1-7, which commands subjection to governing authorities, can be given too much weight in the moral analysis of undocumented immigrants. This article considers Romans 13 in the broader con...
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Intrapersonal Compromise and Ethical Deliberation Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Bradley Shingleton
Compromise is usually associated with concerns about expedience and feelings of regret. It is seen as requiring the surrender of principle in order to avoid a worse outcome. This article proposes a...
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‘Dirty Hands’: Guilt and Regret in Moral Reasoning Studies in Christian Ethics Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Dallas J. Gingles
Nigel Biggar argues against ‘dirty hands’ reasoning for two reasons. The first is that dirty hands reasoning is paradoxical. The second is that ‘dirt’ in dirty hands is often—and wrongly—conceived ...