The Scholarship of Thomas L. Shaffer: A Retrospective and Response
My assignment is to respond, from the perspective of the discipline of Christian ethics, to my broad and vague picture of the oeuvre of my old friend and cross-campus colleague Tom Shaffer. It is not easy to focus a pointed critique within a larger context of considerable agreement.My assignment cal...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1993
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 1993, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 331-337 |
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| Summary: | My assignment is to respond, from the perspective of the discipline of Christian ethics, to my broad and vague picture of the oeuvre of my old friend and cross-campus colleague Tom Shaffer. It is not easy to focus a pointed critique within a larger context of considerable agreement.My assignment calls for me to pass by other important dimensions of Tom's work. I begin with a quite representative characterization, which happens to be in the words of Robert Coles.The author has no interest in providing us with "principles and propositions" in this book. He knows that we each live through a series of events,… in a journey of sorts. He is interested in stories rather than theories, how we try to make sense of things through narration. His heroes, naturally, are the story-tellers of the past and the present. …" |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1051138 |