Response: The Ground and Grammar of Personhood
Anderson explores the nature of personhood in the history of Christian theology. Relating this to his personal narrative of the death of his father, he challenges Hauerwas' suggestion that we should be willing to have our medical practices as fragmented as our moral lives. Taking on and enflesh...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2005
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Journal of religion, disability & health
Year: 2005, Volume: 8, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 121-125 |
| Further subjects: | B
Medicine
B Theology B Narrative B Person B Personhood |
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| Summary: | Anderson explores the nature of personhood in the history of Christian theology. Relating this to his personal narrative of the death of his father, he challenges Hauerwas' suggestion that we should be willing to have our medical practices as fragmented as our moral lives. Taking on and enfleshing some aspects of Hauerwas' argument, Anderson suggests that giving up the language of person, in favour of each community's story and character as the primary criteria for defining and caring for others and, in the end, ourselves, is a form of semantic solipsism, if not spiritual malpractice. |
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| ISSN: | 1522-9122 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion, disability & health
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1300/J095v08n03_14 |