Prophecy, Ethical Constraints, and Unjust Silence
Cathleen Kaveny's Prophecy Without Contempt seeks to reorient the conversation among religious ethicists and political theorists about religion in public life. Rather than focus on religious speech in general, Kaveny distinguishes deliberation and indictment as forms of discourse, and she subje...
| Published in: | Journal of religious ethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2018]
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Journal of religious ethics
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| Review of: | Prophecy without contempt (Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016) (Balthrop-Lewis, Alda)
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| Further subjects: | B
Justice
B Book review B Political Theory B Social Ethics B jeremiad B Silence B Climate Change B Moral Discourse B Democracy B Cathleen Kaveny B Just War Theory B Religion And Politics B Prophecy |
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| Summary: | Cathleen Kaveny's Prophecy Without Contempt seeks to reorient the conversation among religious ethicists and political theorists about religion in public life. Rather than focus on religious speech in general, Kaveny distinguishes deliberation and indictment as forms of discourse, and she subjects indictment to ethical evaluation. She aims to constrain the public exercise of inordinate indictment, while encouraging prophetic indictment that meets the demands of justice. While the book is a much-needed corrective, Kaveny's focus on the powerful rhetoric of prophetic indictment omits the harms that can come to the body politic from unjust silence. Such silence deserves more moral attention. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "Response to Critics (2018)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jore.12210 |