Mary McClintock Fulkerson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199296477
- eISBN:
- 9780191711930
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296477.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter looks at the events that brought the community of Good Samaritan into being. Of particular interest are the formation practices, of which the opening story in this chapter is a ...
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This chapter looks at the events that brought the community of Good Samaritan into being. Of particular interest are the formation practices, of which the opening story in this chapter is a significant example. Who did the community understand itself to be? What did it understand itself to be called to do? As activities of self-definition, formation practices create signs that can coalesce into a claimed identity. And since identity always undergoes renegotiation, there are no absolute boundaries between formation practices and those practices that sustain the community between the origin and dispersal of an identity.Less
This chapter looks at the events that brought the community of Good Samaritan into being. Of particular interest are the formation practices, of which the opening story in this chapter is a significant example. Who did the community understand itself to be? What did it understand itself to be called to do? As activities of self-definition, formation practices create signs that can coalesce into a claimed identity. And since identity always undergoes renegotiation, there are no absolute boundaries between formation practices and those practices that sustain the community between the origin and dispersal of an identity.
Mary McClintock Fulkerson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199296477
- eISBN:
- 9780191711930
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296477.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter focuses on the practices of Good Samaritan UMC in an attempt to become place for all to appear. Having reviewed the prominent practices that made this place, the question now is what ...
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This chapter focuses on the practices of Good Samaritan UMC in an attempt to become place for all to appear. Having reviewed the prominent practices that made this place, the question now is what they have in common and how they diverge. First, a synchronic look at three dominant images articulated in the practices and wider conversations in the community, always attending to the contributions of bodily habituations. Then, for a diachronic sense of communal identity the chapter turns to the role of conflict in the community, asking how divergence over time helped define both identity and faithfulness to identity. Finally, the chapter explores the role of the larger social formation in producing this place.Less
This chapter focuses on the practices of Good Samaritan UMC in an attempt to become place for all to appear. Having reviewed the prominent practices that made this place, the question now is what they have in common and how they diverge. First, a synchronic look at three dominant images articulated in the practices and wider conversations in the community, always attending to the contributions of bodily habituations. Then, for a diachronic sense of communal identity the chapter turns to the role of conflict in the community, asking how divergence over time helped define both identity and faithfulness to identity. Finally, the chapter explores the role of the larger social formation in producing this place.
Mary McClintock Fulkerson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199296477
- eISBN:
- 9780191711930
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296477.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter discusses activities that people engage in, in order to maintain and sustain the community — Good Samaritan's homemaking practices. Six activities that merit particular attention as ...
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This chapter discusses activities that people engage in, in order to maintain and sustain the community — Good Samaritan's homemaking practices. Six activities that merit particular attention as homemaking practices are considered. Following a review of these activities, the chapter considers how these activities qualify as practices, looking especially for those that might be seen to contribute to an emergent habitus.Less
This chapter discusses activities that people engage in, in order to maintain and sustain the community — Good Samaritan's homemaking practices. Six activities that merit particular attention as homemaking practices are considered. Following a review of these activities, the chapter considers how these activities qualify as practices, looking especially for those that might be seen to contribute to an emergent habitus.
Mary McClintock Fulkerson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199296477
- eISBN:
- 9780191711930
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296477.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter begins with a discussion of participant observation. It then describes the first encounter with Good Samaritan Church and presents a definition of practical theology. An overview of the ...
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This chapter begins with a discussion of participant observation. It then describes the first encounter with Good Samaritan Church and presents a definition of practical theology. An overview of the succeeding chapters is provided.Less
This chapter begins with a discussion of participant observation. It then describes the first encounter with Good Samaritan Church and presents a definition of practical theology. An overview of the succeeding chapters is provided.
Mary McClintock Fulkerson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199296477
- eISBN:
- 9780191711930
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296477.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter explores postmodern place as a constructive way to think about Good Samaritan UMC. Drawing upon examples of places, it explores what is distinctive about faith community as place. The ...
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This chapter explores postmodern place as a constructive way to think about Good Samaritan UMC. Drawing upon examples of places, it explores what is distinctive about faith community as place. The goal is to show that place theory provides a frame through which the complexities of the worldly character of the faith community can appear. The categories of place, in short, are best designed to display the shape of faith as a lived situation.Less
This chapter explores postmodern place as a constructive way to think about Good Samaritan UMC. Drawing upon examples of places, it explores what is distinctive about faith community as place. The goal is to show that place theory provides a frame through which the complexities of the worldly character of the faith community can appear. The categories of place, in short, are best designed to display the shape of faith as a lived situation.
Mary McClintock Fulkerson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199296477
- eISBN:
- 9780191711930
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296477.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter examines three kinds of Bible study at the Good Samaritan church. All are concerned with the power of the text to shape faithful lives, but they are distinguished by different approaches ...
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This chapter examines three kinds of Bible study at the Good Samaritan church. All are concerned with the power of the text to shape faithful lives, but they are distinguished by different approaches to the text and ways of thinking about its authority. Evaluating these activities as practices in relation to the goods of the community requires consideration of their distinctive characteristics.Less
This chapter examines three kinds of Bible study at the Good Samaritan church. All are concerned with the power of the text to shape faithful lives, but they are distinguished by different approaches to the text and ways of thinking about its authority. Evaluating these activities as practices in relation to the goods of the community requires consideration of their distinctive characteristics.
Mary McClintock Fulkerson
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199296477
- eISBN:
- 9780191711930
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199296477.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter discusses the challenge that honoring worldliness presents for some traditional ways of thinking about theology. Topics covered include faith-place as challenge, place and theological ...
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This chapter discusses the challenge that honoring worldliness presents for some traditional ways of thinking about theology. Topics covered include faith-place as challenge, place and theological anthropology, the grace of the place, and practical theology and the place.Less
This chapter discusses the challenge that honoring worldliness presents for some traditional ways of thinking about theology. Topics covered include faith-place as challenge, place and theological anthropology, the grace of the place, and practical theology and the place.
Lainie Friedman and J. Richard Thistlethwaite, Jr
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- December 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197618202
- eISBN:
- 9780197618233
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197618202.003.0007
- Subject:
- Clinical Medicine and Allied Health, Medical Ethics
From the outset of kidney transplantation, some living donors were “Good Samaritan” donors—that is, individuals who donated a kidney without a specific recipient in mind. However, non-genetically ...
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From the outset of kidney transplantation, some living donors were “Good Samaritan” donors—that is, individuals who donated a kidney without a specific recipient in mind. However, non-genetically related donors fell out of favor quickly because the results were no better than deceased donor grafts. As immunosuppression improved and graft outcomes from non-biologically related donors improved, attitudes changed (with greater and earlier support from the public than from transplant professionals and with greater support for spouses then friends then acquaintances, and then strangers). This chapter examines ethical controversies raised by Good Samaritan donors using a living donor ethics framework. It examines the moral justification for permitting living donation by strangers, the ethics of the donor and recipient selection and allocation processes, and whether Good Samaritan donors should be encouraged to catalyze a domino multi-donor-recipient pair chain rather than donate to a single candidate on the waitlist.Less
From the outset of kidney transplantation, some living donors were “Good Samaritan” donors—that is, individuals who donated a kidney without a specific recipient in mind. However, non-genetically related donors fell out of favor quickly because the results were no better than deceased donor grafts. As immunosuppression improved and graft outcomes from non-biologically related donors improved, attitudes changed (with greater and earlier support from the public than from transplant professionals and with greater support for spouses then friends then acquaintances, and then strangers). This chapter examines ethical controversies raised by Good Samaritan donors using a living donor ethics framework. It examines the moral justification for permitting living donation by strangers, the ethics of the donor and recipient selection and allocation processes, and whether Good Samaritan donors should be encouraged to catalyze a domino multi-donor-recipient pair chain rather than donate to a single candidate on the waitlist.
M. Jamie Ferreira
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195130256
- eISBN:
- 9780199834181
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195130251.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
As exemplified by the Good Samaritan and implied in the imitation of Christ, Christian love is action (vs inaction) and action that is responsive to the distinctive needs of an individual. God is the ...
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As exemplified by the Good Samaritan and implied in the imitation of Christ, Christian love is action (vs inaction) and action that is responsive to the distinctive needs of an individual. God is the “middle term” in all human love, because God is Love and because we are all creatures of God. The Christian view of “hatred” for the sake of God does not mean the absence of love, but rather that we sometimes cannot give to others what they want because of what we see as their good.Less
As exemplified by the Good Samaritan and implied in the imitation of Christ, Christian love is action (vs inaction) and action that is responsive to the distinctive needs of an individual. God is the “middle term” in all human love, because God is Love and because we are all creatures of God. The Christian view of “hatred” for the sake of God does not mean the absence of love, but rather that we sometimes cannot give to others what they want because of what we see as their good.
J. Warren Smith
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195369939
- eISBN:
- 9780199893362
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195369939.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Having described in Chapter 2 Ambrose’s view of the proper relation between the intellect, the emotions, and the body prior to the fall, the book turns in this chapter to an examination of questions ...
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Having described in Chapter 2 Ambrose’s view of the proper relation between the intellect, the emotions, and the body prior to the fall, the book turns in this chapter to an examination of questions related to Ambrose’s conception of the fall and its effects upon the passions and the intellect. How is the corruption of sin transmitted from one generation to the next? Does the fall result in the transmission of death alone or is there also a corruption of human faculties with a loss of moral freedom, libertas? In what sense does humanity retain free will while yet in "slavery to sin"? Does the fall result in an inheritance of guilt or just weakness? This chapter explores these questions by a comparison of Ambrose’s description of human nature before the fall in Hexameron and human nature after the fall under the law in De Iacob.Less
Having described in Chapter 2 Ambrose’s view of the proper relation between the intellect, the emotions, and the body prior to the fall, the book turns in this chapter to an examination of questions related to Ambrose’s conception of the fall and its effects upon the passions and the intellect. How is the corruption of sin transmitted from one generation to the next? Does the fall result in the transmission of death alone or is there also a corruption of human faculties with a loss of moral freedom, libertas? In what sense does humanity retain free will while yet in "slavery to sin"? Does the fall result in an inheritance of guilt or just weakness? This chapter explores these questions by a comparison of Ambrose’s description of human nature before the fall in Hexameron and human nature after the fall under the law in De Iacob.
William R. O’Neill
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823267309
- eISBN:
- 9780823272334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823267309.003.0018
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
Bill O’Neill offers a provocative philosophical and theological reflection on the ‘moral squint’ of restorative justice—which he links tightly with the Catholic Social Teaching—in deliberative ...
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Bill O’Neill offers a provocative philosophical and theological reflection on the ‘moral squint’ of restorative justice—which he links tightly with the Catholic Social Teaching—in deliberative democracy. O’Neill argues that restorative justice, as opposed to the forms of retributive justice that predominate in the American penal system (embodied in the contemporary phenomenon of mass incarceration), more justly and more comprehensively attends, first and foremost, to the victims of violence, but, secondarily, it also attends to the perpetrators of violence (many of whom, often enough, are themselves victims of personal and/or systematic violence). O’Neill make the theological turn to the narratives of Christian ethics—particularly to the story of the Good Samaritan—to stress the call made to all persons to act toward others, not simply retributively, but in a way that restores their human rights and their dignity.Less
Bill O’Neill offers a provocative philosophical and theological reflection on the ‘moral squint’ of restorative justice—which he links tightly with the Catholic Social Teaching—in deliberative democracy. O’Neill argues that restorative justice, as opposed to the forms of retributive justice that predominate in the American penal system (embodied in the contemporary phenomenon of mass incarceration), more justly and more comprehensively attends, first and foremost, to the victims of violence, but, secondarily, it also attends to the perpetrators of violence (many of whom, often enough, are themselves victims of personal and/or systematic violence). O’Neill make the theological turn to the narratives of Christian ethics—particularly to the story of the Good Samaritan—to stress the call made to all persons to act toward others, not simply retributively, but in a way that restores their human rights and their dignity.
Jeffrey Bilbro
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780813176406
- eISBN:
- 9780813176437
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813176406.003.0004
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
When faced with moral or environmental problems, the industrial culture searches for a set of rules that can guide us through a messy reality. Yet these codes arrogantly foreclose a complex reality ...
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When faced with moral or environmental problems, the industrial culture searches for a set of rules that can guide us through a messy reality. Yet these codes arrogantly foreclose a complex reality and provide a false assurance of propriety; as such, they are ways of keeping the self buffered. Berry, following thinkers such as Ivan Illich and Charles Taylor, turns to the parable of the Good Samaritan for insight into the embodied, humble forms of love that would characterize a truly sustainable community. His essays practice such humility not by being deferential or meek, but by recognizing that the human condition requires us to choose and act from a position of irremediable ignorance. Worse still, we humans generally don’t act on the basis of our most careful, rational thought, but on a more gut level. The occasional, ad hoc nature of his essays evinces his efforts to walk along what he terms a “way of ignorance,” a way of approaching reality in light of our condition as finite persons. In addition, many of Berry’s essays are structured by binaries—boomers versus stickers, the industrial economy versus the Kingdom of God—that work to pry open the codes we use to foreclose reality.Less
When faced with moral or environmental problems, the industrial culture searches for a set of rules that can guide us through a messy reality. Yet these codes arrogantly foreclose a complex reality and provide a false assurance of propriety; as such, they are ways of keeping the self buffered. Berry, following thinkers such as Ivan Illich and Charles Taylor, turns to the parable of the Good Samaritan for insight into the embodied, humble forms of love that would characterize a truly sustainable community. His essays practice such humility not by being deferential or meek, but by recognizing that the human condition requires us to choose and act from a position of irremediable ignorance. Worse still, we humans generally don’t act on the basis of our most careful, rational thought, but on a more gut level. The occasional, ad hoc nature of his essays evinces his efforts to walk along what he terms a “way of ignorance,” a way of approaching reality in light of our condition as finite persons. In addition, many of Berry’s essays are structured by binaries—boomers versus stickers, the industrial economy versus the Kingdom of God—that work to pry open the codes we use to foreclose reality.
Alison Brysk
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195381573
- eISBN:
- 9780199852338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195381573.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
When and why do some states protect helpless foreigners from the abuses of their own governments, distant wars, and global crises? In a relentlessly troubled world, some states are part of the ...
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When and why do some states protect helpless foreigners from the abuses of their own governments, distant wars, and global crises? In a relentlessly troubled world, some states are part of the solution. Humanitarian internationalism is more than episodic altruism—it is a pattern of persistent principled politics. Although global Good Samaritans are clearly a minority of states, they add up to more than scattered exceptions, and the small circle of like-minded states can be key initiators or swing votes on important humanitarian developments, from the antiapartheid campaign to the land mines treaty. The metaphor of the “global Good Samaritan” highlights the critical elements of human rights foreign policy. The defining principle of a Good Samaritan is that he identifies with the interests of the Other: “Love your neighbor as yourself”. The remainder of this book explores why and how states become global Good Samaritans.Less
When and why do some states protect helpless foreigners from the abuses of their own governments, distant wars, and global crises? In a relentlessly troubled world, some states are part of the solution. Humanitarian internationalism is more than episodic altruism—it is a pattern of persistent principled politics. Although global Good Samaritans are clearly a minority of states, they add up to more than scattered exceptions, and the small circle of like-minded states can be key initiators or swing votes on important humanitarian developments, from the antiapartheid campaign to the land mines treaty. The metaphor of the “global Good Samaritan” highlights the critical elements of human rights foreign policy. The defining principle of a Good Samaritan is that he identifies with the interests of the Other: “Love your neighbor as yourself”. The remainder of this book explores why and how states become global Good Samaritans.
John Finnis
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199580071
- eISBN:
- 9780191729393
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199580071.003.0019
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law
This chapter, written in 1973, offers a response to Judith Thomson's famous proto-feminist attempt to vindicate abortion by a thought-experiment which accepts the humanity of the unborn child. It ...
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This chapter, written in 1973, offers a response to Judith Thomson's famous proto-feminist attempt to vindicate abortion by a thought-experiment which accepts the humanity of the unborn child. It begins by showing that casting the issue in terms of rights (to life verses to decide what happens in one's body) obscures the underlying question, which (as she belatedly concedes) is about what is morally required. But abortion, at least in most cases, cannot reasonably be assimilated to the range of Good Samaritan problems. The traditional moral discussion of killing is traced, and the traditional casuistry distinguishing justifiable terminations of pregnancy from ‘direct’ abortions is critically analysed (with a partly defective concept of intention). Arguments of Jonathan Bennett and Philippa Foot are considered along the way, as well as Thomson's incidental comparison of the embryo to an acorn. An endnote points the way to rectifying the account of intention.Less
This chapter, written in 1973, offers a response to Judith Thomson's famous proto-feminist attempt to vindicate abortion by a thought-experiment which accepts the humanity of the unborn child. It begins by showing that casting the issue in terms of rights (to life verses to decide what happens in one's body) obscures the underlying question, which (as she belatedly concedes) is about what is morally required. But abortion, at least in most cases, cannot reasonably be assimilated to the range of Good Samaritan problems. The traditional moral discussion of killing is traced, and the traditional casuistry distinguishing justifiable terminations of pregnancy from ‘direct’ abortions is critically analysed (with a partly defective concept of intention). Arguments of Jonathan Bennett and Philippa Foot are considered along the way, as well as Thomson's incidental comparison of the embryo to an acorn. An endnote points the way to rectifying the account of intention.
Maria W. Merritt, John M. Doris, and Gilbert Harman
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199582143
- eISBN:
- 9780191594496
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199582143.003.0012
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
Moral psychology is central to modern virtue ethics, whose proponents have claimed greater psychological realism as a theoretical advantage. Yet much empirical research in personality and social ...
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Moral psychology is central to modern virtue ethics, whose proponents have claimed greater psychological realism as a theoretical advantage. Yet much empirical research in personality and social psychology appears to unsettle familiar notions of character, prompting critics to advance skeptical views of character as portrayed in philosophical virtue ethics. In response, some defenders of virtue ethics have acknowledged the importance of incorporating the empirical literature into philosophical conceptions of character. This chapter moves the discussion forward by exploring avenues available to, and difficulties faced by, an empirically sensitive psychology of character. It considers virtue-ethical ideals of practical rationality, as well as certain basic moral norms, in light of the picture of human cognition now emerging in the cognitive sciences. The chapter interprets some of the classic psychological experiments as evidence that morally consequential behavior is pervasively influenced by cognitive processes resistant to intentional direction and at best insensitive to personal, reflectively endorsed moral norms, if not contrary to them. Lastly, on the basis of this understanding, the chapter surveys the prospects for using empirical findings to seek remedies for such adverse influences on moral thinking and behavior.Less
Moral psychology is central to modern virtue ethics, whose proponents have claimed greater psychological realism as a theoretical advantage. Yet much empirical research in personality and social psychology appears to unsettle familiar notions of character, prompting critics to advance skeptical views of character as portrayed in philosophical virtue ethics. In response, some defenders of virtue ethics have acknowledged the importance of incorporating the empirical literature into philosophical conceptions of character. This chapter moves the discussion forward by exploring avenues available to, and difficulties faced by, an empirically sensitive psychology of character. It considers virtue-ethical ideals of practical rationality, as well as certain basic moral norms, in light of the picture of human cognition now emerging in the cognitive sciences. The chapter interprets some of the classic psychological experiments as evidence that morally consequential behavior is pervasively influenced by cognitive processes resistant to intentional direction and at best insensitive to personal, reflectively endorsed moral norms, if not contrary to them. Lastly, on the basis of this understanding, the chapter surveys the prospects for using empirical findings to seek remedies for such adverse influences on moral thinking and behavior.
Keith D. Miller
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617031083
- eISBN:
- 9781617031090
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617031083.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter examines Martin Luther King Jr.’s relationship to a group of liberal, largely white Protestant preachers and writers, including George Buttrick, and how he borrowed and adjusted their ...
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This chapter examines Martin Luther King Jr.’s relationship to a group of liberal, largely white Protestant preachers and writers, including George Buttrick, and how he borrowed and adjusted their sermons and commentaries. In particular, it looks at several sermons on the parables that King replayed from Buttrick’s Parables of Jesus, including his explanation of the Parable of the Good Samaritan in the 1963 sermon “On Being a Good Neighbor” and in his final speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” The chapter also discusses the Protestants’ tradition of interpreting the parables of Jesus as well as the use of interpretive commonplaces by King and Buttrick.Less
This chapter examines Martin Luther King Jr.’s relationship to a group of liberal, largely white Protestant preachers and writers, including George Buttrick, and how he borrowed and adjusted their sermons and commentaries. In particular, it looks at several sermons on the parables that King replayed from Buttrick’s Parables of Jesus, including his explanation of the Parable of the Good Samaritan in the 1963 sermon “On Being a Good Neighbor” and in his final speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” The chapter also discusses the Protestants’ tradition of interpreting the parables of Jesus as well as the use of interpretive commonplaces by King and Buttrick.
Keith D. Miller
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617031083
- eISBN:
- 9781617031090
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617031083.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
While extending the Exodus and Hebrew prophecy in his final speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” Martin Luther King Jr. also knits together Jewish and Christian themes by interpreting the Christian ...
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While extending the Exodus and Hebrew prophecy in his final speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” Martin Luther King Jr. also knits together Jewish and Christian themes by interpreting the Christian Bible. This chapter examines his use of passages that resonate in the Hebrew Bible and in two books of the Christian Bible—Luke and Acts. It looks at King’s use of two passages from Luke to reconstitute the relationship between Judaism and Christianity and to reframe Memphis, and then comments on his interpretation of the Parable of the Good Samaritan and his recollection of the stabbing that almost killed him in 1958. King’s account of this near-fatal stabbing, along with the wounded traveler in the parable and oppressed garbage workers in Memphis, informs and shapes his concluding words about his own possible death. The chapter concludes with a discussion of King’s construction of a biblical narrative that strongly emphasizes the body as a site of spiritual struggle and triumph.Less
While extending the Exodus and Hebrew prophecy in his final speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” Martin Luther King Jr. also knits together Jewish and Christian themes by interpreting the Christian Bible. This chapter examines his use of passages that resonate in the Hebrew Bible and in two books of the Christian Bible—Luke and Acts. It looks at King’s use of two passages from Luke to reconstitute the relationship between Judaism and Christianity and to reframe Memphis, and then comments on his interpretation of the Parable of the Good Samaritan and his recollection of the stabbing that almost killed him in 1958. King’s account of this near-fatal stabbing, along with the wounded traveler in the parable and oppressed garbage workers in Memphis, informs and shapes his concluding words about his own possible death. The chapter concludes with a discussion of King’s construction of a biblical narrative that strongly emphasizes the body as a site of spiritual struggle and triumph.
Jeroen Kortmann
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199280056
- eISBN:
- 9780191700101
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199280056.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Law of Obligations
This book examines two problems in private law that are posed by the ‘good Samaritan’: First, do we have a legal duty to give aid to our fellow human beings? In particular: can we be held liable for ...
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This book examines two problems in private law that are posed by the ‘good Samaritan’: First, do we have a legal duty to give aid to our fellow human beings? In particular: can we be held liable for damages if we fail to do so? Second, if we do come to the rescue, will we have any claim for the expenses that we incurred, or for a reward? This book examines and compares the responses of the Roman, French, German, and English legal systems to these problems, providing a treatment of English law in relation to ‘liability for nonfeasance’ (or ‘liability for omissions’) and negotiorum gestio (or ‘the doctrine of necessity’). In Part I, the book examines English law, which draws a distinction between action and inaction or ‘feasance’ and ‘nonfeasance’. In general, one is not held liable for failing to act. It explores the theoretical justifications for drawing this distinction and the different approaches taken in France and Germany, concluding that the English rule of no liability for nonfeasance requires reconsideration. In Part II the English approach to the problem of reimbursement or reward is examined, detailing its profound differences from the Continental European approach. In principle, English law does not grant the necessitous intervener a claim against the beneficiary of his intervention. The book examines the theoretical justifications for assuming this position and again concludes that the law deserves reconsideration. Finally, the book concludes by demonstrating close interconnections between the two traditionally independent issues.Less
This book examines two problems in private law that are posed by the ‘good Samaritan’: First, do we have a legal duty to give aid to our fellow human beings? In particular: can we be held liable for damages if we fail to do so? Second, if we do come to the rescue, will we have any claim for the expenses that we incurred, or for a reward? This book examines and compares the responses of the Roman, French, German, and English legal systems to these problems, providing a treatment of English law in relation to ‘liability for nonfeasance’ (or ‘liability for omissions’) and negotiorum gestio (or ‘the doctrine of necessity’). In Part I, the book examines English law, which draws a distinction between action and inaction or ‘feasance’ and ‘nonfeasance’. In general, one is not held liable for failing to act. It explores the theoretical justifications for drawing this distinction and the different approaches taken in France and Germany, concluding that the English rule of no liability for nonfeasance requires reconsideration. In Part II the English approach to the problem of reimbursement or reward is examined, detailing its profound differences from the Continental European approach. In principle, English law does not grant the necessitous intervener a claim against the beneficiary of his intervention. The book examines the theoretical justifications for assuming this position and again concludes that the law deserves reconsideration. Finally, the book concludes by demonstrating close interconnections between the two traditionally independent issues.
Alison Brysk
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195381573
- eISBN:
- 9780199852338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195381573.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter analyzes the lessons learned, and suggests policy guidelines to enhance the strength, numbers, and role of global Good Samaritans in the international human rights regime. People can ...
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This chapter analyzes the lessons learned, and suggests policy guidelines to enhance the strength, numbers, and role of global Good Samaritans in the international human rights regime. People can build a better world by nurturing every element of the international human rights regime. Global institutions, transnational civil society, and state human rights promoters are interdependent and synergistic. They can reinforce each other's efforts and must learn from each other's visions and experiences. People must also provide and renew the normative glue that cements global governance, preaching the cosmopolitan gospels of universalism and interdependence. Every year, millions of lives are saved because some government accepted refugees, sent aid, deployed peacekeepers, sanctioned a dictator, tried a miscreant, monitored an election, trained police, or sheltered a dissident. Global Good Samaritans are not martyrs or messiahs; they are simply generous bystanders who stop to help a stranger.Less
This chapter analyzes the lessons learned, and suggests policy guidelines to enhance the strength, numbers, and role of global Good Samaritans in the international human rights regime. People can build a better world by nurturing every element of the international human rights regime. Global institutions, transnational civil society, and state human rights promoters are interdependent and synergistic. They can reinforce each other's efforts and must learn from each other's visions and experiences. People must also provide and renew the normative glue that cements global governance, preaching the cosmopolitan gospels of universalism and interdependence. Every year, millions of lives are saved because some government accepted refugees, sent aid, deployed peacekeepers, sanctioned a dictator, tried a miscreant, monitored an election, trained police, or sheltered a dissident. Global Good Samaritans are not martyrs or messiahs; they are simply generous bystanders who stop to help a stranger.
Kate Greasley
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- March 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198766780
- eISBN:
- 9780191821059
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198766780.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
This chapter discusses the possibility that abortion is clearly permissible in almost all cases whether or not the fetus is a person, because abortion is not, in truth, an act of killing, but only ...
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This chapter discusses the possibility that abortion is clearly permissible in almost all cases whether or not the fetus is a person, because abortion is not, in truth, an act of killing, but only the refusal by a pregnant woman to be a Good Samaritan. It presents and criticizes Judith Jarvis Thomson’s famous ‘violinist analogy’ argument in defence of the ‘Good Samaritan Thesis’ that continued pregnancy is a form of non-obligatory assistance to another, if the fetus is a person. Against this thesis, I argue that the problem of abortion, if fetal personhood is presumed, is not a question of positive duties to rescue others, but of the negative duty to refrain from killing them. Given that this is the case, the Good Samaritan Thesis fails.Less
This chapter discusses the possibility that abortion is clearly permissible in almost all cases whether or not the fetus is a person, because abortion is not, in truth, an act of killing, but only the refusal by a pregnant woman to be a Good Samaritan. It presents and criticizes Judith Jarvis Thomson’s famous ‘violinist analogy’ argument in defence of the ‘Good Samaritan Thesis’ that continued pregnancy is a form of non-obligatory assistance to another, if the fetus is a person. Against this thesis, I argue that the problem of abortion, if fetal personhood is presumed, is not a question of positive duties to rescue others, but of the negative duty to refrain from killing them. Given that this is the case, the Good Samaritan Thesis fails.