Prophecy Without Contempt: Metaphors, Imagination, and Evaluative Criteria
While greatly appreciative of Kaveny's important study of a neglected form of religious/moral discourse in the public square, this essay critically examines her metaphors for prophetic indictments and finds the metaphor of moral chemotherapy particularly problematic and the metaphor of warfare,...
| 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) (Childress, James F.)
Prophecy without contempt (Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016) (Childress, James F.) |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Imagination B indictment B Cathleen Kaveny B Metaphor B Prophecy |
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| Summary: | While greatly appreciative of Kaveny's important study of a neglected form of religious/moral discourse in the public square, this essay critically examines her metaphors for prophetic indictments and finds the metaphor of moral chemotherapy particularly problematic and the metaphor of warfare, connected with the just-war tradition, more promising. It stresses the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of avoiding contempt in prophetic indictments, as Kaveny conceives them, and finds her proposed solutions to this problemstanding with the people and expressing empathy and compassion toward theminadequate to the task. It further argues that attending to prophetic imagination, in addition to prophetic denunciation, can broaden the scope of practical deliberation and, at the same time, increase possible prophetic contributions to moral and political discourse. |
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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.12211 |