Prophetic Pragmatism and Descending to Matters of Detail
This article names the three most urgent issues today in ethics: first, climate crisis and its impact on the poor and marginalized; second, the tragic banality of contemporary political leadership; and third, racism and antiblackness. Examining this last injustice reveals our failure in moral agency...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage Publ.
[2018]
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Theological studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 79, Issue: 1, Pages: 128-145 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Catholic church
/ Moral theology
/ Climatic change
/ Political leadership
/ Racism
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| IxTheo Classification: | KDB Roman Catholic Church NBE Anthropology NCC Social ethics NCD Political ethics NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Climatology
B Nationalism B POOR people B Abuse of B Crises B Social aspects B Moral Agency B Political leadership B Authoritarianism B moral incompetency B Climate Change B Sustainability B White Supremacy B antiblackness B Conscience B VALUES (Ethics) B Racism |
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| Summary: | This article names the three most urgent issues today in ethics: first, climate crisis and its impact on the poor and marginalized; second, the tragic banality of contemporary political leadership; and third, racism and antiblackness. Examining this last injustice reveals our failure in moral agency, for the first two crises derive from the incapacity of the American conscience, which has never acknowledged how racist and privileged our conscience has become. While arguing for conversion, the article also offers ways for imagining a more responsible expression of moral agency to rectify each present moral failure. |
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| ISSN: | 2169-1304 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040563917744654 |