John R Bowlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 238263 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John R Bowlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | John R |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowlin |
| SIGNATURE | BOWLIN J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jesus and Dogs
Religious ethics, like its sibling, religious studies, emerged out of the divinity schools and theological seminaries in the mid‐20th century. Many years have now passed since these academic disciplines have secured independent standing in universities and colleges, independent from their theological beginnings. The time seems right, then, to ask what theological inquiry might gain from religious ethics and what religious ethics might look like w…
For the Life of the World
There are many things in For the Life of the World ( FLOW) 1 that deserve mention, gratitude, and praise from a Protestant theological ethicist, many things that the Protestant churches might learn, emulate, and modify in light of their own commitments about salvation, sacrament, and union with God. I mention three. I conclude by considering the view of moral tragedy that FLOW assumes. In recent years, several Protestant ethicists have been tempt…
John Bowlin’s Response to Andrea C. White
Status, Ideal, and Calling
Dignity and Domination
Democracy, Tolerance, Aquinas
Democracy is more than a collection of institutions, laws, and freely contested sources of authority. It is also an ideal. If we think of this ideal in republican terms, in terms of resistance to domination through the practices of mutual accountability, and if we recall that democratic life invariably comes with loss, then those of us who inhabit a democratic political society will need to locate, and then cultivate, responses to loss that do no…
Proclaiming the Gospel, Preaching the Public
When does preaching become public witness, and what problems emerge when public witness regards a matter that belongs to a democratic citizenry? This article addresses these questions in a somewhat roundabout way. It begins in what might be called political sociology and it explores what it might mean to speak and act with a multiply hyphenated political identity. The assumption is that Christians have an identity of precisely this kind and that …
Funding and Teaching Challenges Facing Faith-Based Organizing
Faith-based organizing in the United States faces two major practical challenges: funding its work and teaching its approach to the next generation of pastors. With these challenges in mind, the editors asked Sheila Greeve Davaney, until recently a programme officer with the Ford Foundation, to reflect on her experience of funding the work of faith-based organizing networks. John Bowlin, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Jarrett K…
Faculty Publications 2009
t was the final gathering of pastors at the Joe R. Engle Institute of Preaching.I look forward to this institute all year, when those who have been in ministry for at least two years come to be better preachers-to better proclaim the gospel in their particular communities.I look forward to this gathering of preachers because they know what they know, and they know what they don't know-and they want my help, though I'm kept humble by the pastor wh…
Introduction
This special focus of the Journal of Religious Ethics begins with the mixture of admiration and apprehension that John Milbank's use of historical materials so often inspires and moves to specific reflection on specific figures and texts that appear in his grand story of secular modernity. Throughout, the focus is not on his moral theology per se , but rather on the way he treats certain figures, how he constructs his historical tale, and how his…
Contingency and Fortune in Aquinas's Ethics
Preface List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Virtue and difficulty 2. The contingency of the human good 3. Natural law and the limits of contingency 4. Virtue and discontent 5. Virtue and fortune Epilogue: hope and happiness References Index.
Comment by John R. Bowlin
Comments on: Charles T. Mathewes, Agency, Nature, Transcendence, and Moralism: A Review of Recent Work in Moral Psychology
Sieges, Shipwrecks, andSensible Knaves
By examining the theories of justice developed by Joseph Butler and David Hume, the author discloses the conceptual limits of their moral naturalism. Butler was unable to accommodate the possibility that justice is, at least to some extent, a social convention. Hume, who more presciently tried to spell out the conventional character of justice, was unable to carry through that project within the framework of his moral naturalism. These limits hav…
Rorty and Aquinas on Courage and Contingency
Representation and Reality in the Study of Culture
The contemporary debate over the scientific status of ethnographic inquiry is best regarded as a dispute between realist and antirealist treatments of truth and representation. Drawing on some of the work of philosopher Donald Davidson, this essay argues that both treatments are flawed. It concludes that the controversy about cross-cultural truth claims is misconceived and unproductive when carried out in epistemological terms. In fact, the disag…
Representation and Reality in the Study of Culture
The contemporary debate over the scientific status of ethnographic inquiry is best regarded as a dispute between realist and antirealist treatments of truth and representation. Drawing on some of the work of philosopher Donald Davidson, this essay argues that both treatments are flawed. It concludes that the controversy about cross-cultural truth claims is misconceived and unproductive when carried out in epistemological terms. In fact, the disag…
Funding and Teaching Challenges Facing Faith-Based Organizing
Faith-based organizing in the United States faces two major practical challenges: funding its work and teaching its approach to the next generation of pastors. With these challenges in mind, the editors asked Sheila Greeve Davaney, until recently a programme officer with the Ford Foundation, to reflect on her experience of funding the work of faith-based organizing networks. John Bowlin, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Jarrett K…
Rorty and Aquinas on Courage and Contingency
Representation and Reality in the Study of Culture
The contemporary debate over the scientific status of ethnographic inquiry is best regarded as a dispute between realist and antirealist treatments of truth and representation. Drawing on some of the work of philosopher Donald Davidson, this essay argues that both treatments are flawed. It concludes that the controversy about cross-cultural truth claims is misconceived and unproductive when carried out in epistemological terms. In fact, the disag…
Comment by John R. Bowlin
Comments on: Charles T. Mathewes, Agency, Nature, Transcendence, and Moralism: A Review of Recent Work in Moral Psychology
Sieges, Shipwrecks, andSensible Knaves
By examining the theories of justice developed by Joseph Butler and David Hume, the author discloses the conceptual limits of their moral naturalism. Butler was unable to accommodate the possibility that justice is, at least to some extent, a social convention. Hume, who more presciently tried to spell out the conventional character of justice, was unable to carry through that project within the framework of his moral naturalism. These limits hav…
Contingency and Fortune in Aquinas's Ethics
Preface List of abbreviations Introduction 1. Virtue and difficulty 2. The contingency of the human good 3. Natural law and the limits of contingency 4. Virtue and discontent 5. Virtue and fortune Epilogue: hope and happiness References Index.
Introduction
This special focus of the Journal of Religious Ethics begins with the mixture of admiration and apprehension that John Milbank's use of historical materials so often inspires and moves to specific reflection on specific figures and texts that appear in his grand story of secular modernity. Throughout, the focus is not on his moral theology per se , but rather on the way he treats certain figures, how he constructs his historical tale, and how his…
Faculty Publications 2009
t was the final gathering of pastors at the Joe R. Engle Institute of Preaching.I look forward to this institute all year, when those who have been in ministry for at least two years come to be better preachers-to better proclaim the gospel in their particular communities.I look forward to this gathering of preachers because they know what they know, and they know what they don't know-and they want my help, though I'm kept humble by the pastor wh…
Funding and Teaching Challenges Facing Faith-Based Organizing
Faith-based organizing in the United States faces two major practical challenges: funding its work and teaching its approach to the next generation of pastors. With these challenges in mind, the editors asked Sheila Greeve Davaney, until recently a programme officer with the Ford Foundation, to reflect on her experience of funding the work of faith-based organizing networks. John Bowlin, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Jarrett K…
Proclaiming the Gospel, Preaching the Public
When does preaching become public witness, and what problems emerge when public witness regards a matter that belongs to a democratic citizenry? This article addresses these questions in a somewhat roundabout way. It begins in what might be called political sociology and it explores what it might mean to speak and act with a multiply hyphenated political identity. The assumption is that Christians have an identity of precisely this kind and that …
Democracy, Tolerance, Aquinas
Democracy is more than a collection of institutions, laws, and freely contested sources of authority. It is also an ideal. If we think of this ideal in republican terms, in terms of resistance to domination through the practices of mutual accountability, and if we recall that democratic life invariably comes with loss, then those of us who inhabit a democratic political society will need to locate, and then cultivate, responses to loss that do no…
Dignity and Domination
John Bowlin’s Response to Andrea C. White
Status, Ideal, and Calling
For the Life of the World
There are many things in For the Life of the World ( FLOW) 1 that deserve mention, gratitude, and praise from a Protestant theological ethicist, many things that the Protestant churches might learn, emulate, and modify in light of their own commitments about salvation, sacrament, and union with God. I mention three. I conclude by considering the view of moral tragedy that FLOW assumes. In recent years, several Protestant ethicists have been tempt…
Jesus and Dogs
Religious ethics, like its sibling, religious studies, emerged out of the divinity schools and theological seminaries in the mid‐20th century. Many years have now passed since these academic disciplines have secured independent standing in universities and colleges, independent from their theological beginnings. The time seems right, then, to ask what theological inquiry might gain from religious ethics and what religious ethics might look like w…
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