The Limit of Responsibility by Esther D Reed
This volume frames the question of responsibility as a problem of agency in relation to the systems and structures of globalization. According to Ricoeur responsibility is a “shattered concept” when considered too narrowly as a problem of act, agency and individual freedom.
To examine this Esther Reed develops a short genealogy of modern liberal and post-liberal concepts of responsibility in order to understand better the relationship dominant modern framings of the meanings of responsibility. Reed engages with writings by major modern (Schleiermacher, Hegel, Marx, Weber) and post-liberal (Buber, Levinas, Derrida, Badiou, Butler, Young, Critchley) theorists to illustrate the shift from an ethnic responsibility built on notions of accountability and attributions to an ethic responsibility that starts variously from the ‘other’. Reed sees Dietrich Bonhoeffer as the most promising partner of this theological dialogue, as his learning of responsibility from the risen Christ present now in the (global) church is a welcome provocation to new thinking about the meaning of responsibility learned from land, distant neighbour, (global) church and the bible.
Bonhoeffer’s reflections on the centre, boundaries and limits of responsibility remain helpful to Christian people struggling with an increasingly exhausted concept of accountability.
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Church Leadership in the Age of Human Resource Management
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The Iconic Self
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The Spirit of the Corporation
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The Sovereign Human Being
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Addiction and the Captive Will
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The Polity of Christ
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The Promise of Martin Luther's Political Theology
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Emotions, Moral Formation, and Christian Politics
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Christians and Violence
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Oliver O'Donovan's Moral Theology
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The Single Individual and the Searcher of Hearts
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Responsive Becoming: Moral Formation in Theological, Evolutionary, and Developmental Perspective
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Longing for the Good Life: Virtue Ethics after Protestantism
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Transfigured not Conformed
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Hans Joachim Iwand on Church and Society
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Christian Kinship
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Communities of Restoration
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Theological Neuroethics
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The Ethics of Grace
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Protestant Virtue and Stoic Ethics
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Sabbath Rest as Vocation
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Every Good Path
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Love Does Not Seek Its Own
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Absolute Person and Moral Experience
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Logics of War
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Beginnings: Interrogating Hauerwas
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The Reign of God
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Confidence in Life
Esther D. Reed is Professor at the University of Exeter, and President-elect of the
UK Society for the Study of Christian Ethics, UK.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780567679345 |
| ISBN 10 | 0567679349 |
| Title | The Limit of Responsibility |
| Author | Esther D Reed |
| Series | T And T Clark Enquiries In Theological Ethics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2018-08-23 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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