dc.contributor.author | Smith, Ted A., 1968- | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-05-13T18:40:45Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-05-13T18:40:45Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2007 | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Smith, Ted A. "The Price of Respectable Equality: Eschatological Memories of Actually Existing Democracy." Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 27.1 (2007): 137-156. | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/2984 | |
dc.description.abstract | I engage two conversations: one about the relationship between history and ethics, and another about the relationship of Christianity and democracy in the United States. In the first half of the essay I suggest two shifts in the ways ethicists engage history. I argue that ethicists should be concerned not only with ideas, but also with lived religion. I then propose "eschatological memory" as a genre for using historical studies for normative work. I develop it through contrast with MacIntyre's notion of tradition and through conversation with Benjamin's philosophy of history. In the second half of the paper I offer a long exemplum, an eschatological memory of the equality promised by Oberlin College. I recall the suppressed memory of a lynching, a memory that reveals the antinomies of equality and gives rise to a politics of piecemeal reform in the light of eschatological hope. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Smith, Ted A. "The Price of Respectable Equality: Eschatological Memories of Actually Existing Democracy." Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 27.1 (2007): 137-156 originally published by Georgetown University Press of Washington, D.C. Used by permission of the Society of Christian Ethics (U.S.). | en |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.publisher | Georgetown University Press | en |
dc.subject | Eschatological memory | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Equality | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Progress -- Moral and ethical aspects | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Oberlin Collegiate Institute | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | History -- Philosophy | en |
dc.title | The Price of Respectable Equality: Eschatological Memories of Actually Existing Democracy | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.type | Text | en |
dc.description.school | Vanderbilt University. Divinity School | en |