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Becoming Responsible in Christian Ethics

Southern Methodist University, P.O. Box 317, Dallas,TX 75220 USA, rlovin{at}smu.edu

The works of H. Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr provide an appropriate starting point for renewed attention to the idea of responsibility in Christian ethics. While responsible choice and ‘the responsible society’ were important themes in ecumenical Protestant ethics in Britain and the US from the 1930s to the late 1950s, the idea has been neglected in recent decades. German theology, however, has considered Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s wartime writings on the ‘venture of responsibility’ and a biblical theology of judgment and responsibility in light of a growing literature in philosophy and social thought that structures the moral life around a technological society’s responsibility for the human future. These different ways of thinking about responsibility invite further theological and ethical reflection on their history, their disagreements, and their possibilities for the future.

Key Words: consequentialism • eschatology • irony • justice • responsibility

Studies in Christian Ethics, Vol. 22, No. 4, 389-398 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0953946809340939


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