We are who we think we were : Christian history and Christian ethics / Aaron D. Conley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conley, Aaron D.

Series:

Emerging scholars

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian ethics.

Theology.

Physical Description:

vii, 185 pages.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, 2013.

Summary:

Toward a self-critical understanding of our own past-We Are Who We Think We Were calls into question the outdated historical methodologies in use in Christian social ethics and outlines the consequences stemming from them.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, Aaron D. Conley calls ethicists to learn to read for the gaps, silences, and uncertainties that exist both in historical texts and the histories represented by these texts. 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Landscapes of historiography in Christian social ethics

A critical self-reflexive historiography for Christian ethics

Metanarrative habits are hard to break

Reevaluating Tertullian and the virtue of patience

Continuity, discontinuity, and the quest for justice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781451469318

1451469314

OCLC:

837147326

Publisher Number:

99955176395