We are who we think we were
Subtitle: Christian history and Christian ethics
By: Aaron D. Conley
Series: Emerging scholars; Emerging scholars
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9781451469318
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Christian ethics; Theology
Description: Conley calls into question the outdated historical methodologies in use in Christian social ethics and outlines the consequences stemming from them. By adopting the postmodern post-structuralist position of historian Elizabeth Clark, Conley calls ethicists to learn to read for the gaps, silences, and aporias existent in historical texts as well as in the histories represented by them. The book calls ethicists to a critical self-reflexive historiography. This self-criticism allows the ability to construct new histories and formulate new ethical norms for the world in which we now live.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Landscapes of historiography in Christian social ethics; title: A critical self-reflexive historiography for Christian ethics; title: Metanarrative habits are hard to break; title: Reevaluating Tertullian and the virtue of patience; title: Continuity, discontinuity, and the quest for justice.