The Ethics of Tainted Legacies

Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts

Karen V. Guth (College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts)

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Cambridge University Press
28 July 2022

Religious ethics

What do we do when a beloved comedian known as 'America's Dad' is convicted of sexual assault? Or when we discover that the man who wrote 'all men are created equal' also enslaved hundreds of people? Or when priests are exposed as pedophiles? From the popular to the political to the profound, each day brings new revelations that respected people, traditions, and institutions are not what we thought they were. Despite the shock that these disclosures produce, this state of affairs is anything but new. Facing the concrete task of living well when our best moral resources are not only contaminated but also potentially corrupting is an enduring feature of human experience. In this book, Karen V. Guth identifies 'tainted legacies' as a pressing contemporary moral problem and ethical challenge. Constructing a typology of responses to compromised thinkers, traditions, and institutions, she demonstrates the relevance of age-old debates in Christian theology for those who confront legacies tarnished by the traumas of slavery, racism, and sexual violence.

By: Karen V. Guth (College of the Holy Cross Massachusetts)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 223mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781009100359
ISBN 10: 1009100351
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 28 July 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Tainted legacies: morally injurious 'remainders' of traumatic pasts; 2. Common responses to tainted legacies; 3. 'Biblical birthright' and the #MeToo movement: feminist and womanist biblical scholarship on how to read cultural texts of terror; 4. Heritage and hate: womanist ethics and the confederate monuments debate; 5. Inheriting America's original sin: can our alma maters make amends for slavery?; 6. Individual and institutional responses to John Howard Yoder's tainted legacy: fostering flourishing from a traumatic past.

Karen V. Guth is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is the author of Christian Ethics at the Boundary: Feminism and Theologies of Public Life (Fortress, 2015) and numerous articles in publications including the Journal of Religious Ethics, the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, and the Christian Century.

Reviews for The Ethics of Tainted Legacies: Human Flourishing after Traumatic Pasts

'This is original work that not only benefits the field of Christian ethics, but also the larger social contexts from which these tainted legacies and any possible remedies will emerge. This book is accessible while also being challenging, both in the depth of its insight and the seriousness of the problems addressed.' Rebekah Miles, Reading Religion