Donald W Shriver
Biographic Data
| ID | 108231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald W Shriver |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald W |
| FAMILY NAME | Shriver |
| SIGNATURE | SHRIVER D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Union Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims?: Competing Claims?
As US-China relations head into a period of intense activity and sensitivity, this work addresses the impact of US and Chinese domestic factors on post-Cold War / post-Tiananmen relations.
Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims
Law, Religion, and Restorative Justice in New Zealand
A former police chief and a criminologist confirm a famous remark by Margaret Mead when they write: “The initiation of restorative reforms is often based upon the conversion of one key professional in a criminal justice agency.” New Zealand district court judge Fred W.M. McElrea personalized this rule in his account of how he stumbled on a restorative procedure in the case of a young man in Auckland, who was a Maori and son of a bishop, and who c…
The Utility of Forgiveness
Tradition largely confines forgiveness to interpersonal relations, and most Westerners understand it as an exclusively religious concept. However, we should not ignore or downplay the secular utilitarian value of forgiveness. To say that forgivenessis “useful” in politics is not to demean its ethical and theological significance. For recovery from the uselessness of most warfare, forgiveness may be a critically important political virtue, althoug…
Honest Patriots: Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds
The book records attempts in three countries — Germany, South Africa, and the United States — to educate patriots who are neither loveless critics nor uncritical lovers of their nation, but rather loving critics. How does a national public learn to acknowledge the “dark side” of their country’s history? In the post-1945 years, Germans slowly but surely came to pay public attention to the evils of the Nazi era. In an astonishing accumulation of me…
Truth Commissions and Judicial Trials: Complementary or Antagonistic Servants of Public Justice
“The call to punish human rights criminals can present complex and agonising problems that have no single or simple solution. While the debate over the Nuremberg trials still goes on, that episode—trials of war criminals of a defeated nation—was simplicity itself as compared to the subtle and dangerous issues that can divide a country when it undertakes to punish its own violators.” -Judge Marvin Frankel “That's what lawyers do, Mark. They twist …
How Will We Manage Diversity: A Response to Jean Bethke Elshtain
In basic agreement with Elshtain's suspicion of a rationalist basis for defining human nature and ethics, this response underscores the importance of story, history, and collective experience for our achieving of such definitions. At stake in the debate are two vital anthropological questions: (1) Who are we that we should value each other and ascribe rights to each other? The “thin” rationalist answer to this question is that we just believe in …
An Ethic For Enemies: Forgiveness In Politics
Shriver shows that the concept of forgiveness, long relegated to the realm of the personal, is surprisingly relevant and important to political life. He uses three examples from recent American history - our relations with Germany and Japan, and the civil rights struggle - to show the importance of forgiveness in overcoming the traditional hatreds that threaten to cripple our society.
The Churches and the Future of Racism
“For the first time in the history of American race relations, there is now a fair chance that people of different histories, different theologies, and different social perspectives may actually be capable of communicating these differences to each other, in a new expression of the ‘one body with many members.’”
Spindles and Spires: A Re-Study of Religion and Social Change in Gastonia
Reply by Authors
Spindles and Spires: A Re-Study of Religion and Social Change in Gastonia
The Conception of Sectarian Religion: An Effort at Clarification
Spindles and Spires
Spindles and Spires: A Re-Study of Religion and Social Change in Gastonia
Spindles and Spires
Journal Article Spindles and Spires by John R. Earle, Dean D. Knudson, and Donald W. Srhiver, Jr. Atlanta, Georgia: John Knox Press, 1977, 382 pp. $5.95 Get access Donald R. Ploch Donald R. Ploch University of Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 1977, Pages 417–418, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710129 Published: 01 December 1977
Spindles and Spires
Spindles and Spires: A Re-Study of Religion and Social Change in Gastonia
Ethics and the Urban Ethos
Counterrevolution and Revolt
Man and His Machines: Four Angles of Vision
In one of the most vivid images of civilization ever to flit across a cinema screen, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey opens with a hominid's discovery of the first tool-a club which enables him to crush the skulls of antelopes and fellow hominids with equal ease. In the transitional sequence from this primordial evolution time to A.D. 2001, the slow-motion camera follows a toss of the club into the air, and phases it gracefully into the fo…
Continuity and Change in Society and Theology
“Are there abiding principles of selection in the Hebrew-Christian tradition which provide for the re-formation of tradition itself? Perhaps the major division among theologians today is over that question. Some argue that the Hebrew-Christian tradition is to be reformed from within its own presuppositions; others argue that it can only be reformed from without by some really new presuppositions of the twentieth century. As a participant in the c…
Academic Discipline As Predictive of Faculty Religiosity
Data from a probability sample of a state university faculty are analyzed to determine whether academic discipline is predictive of faculty religiosity. Wide variations observed on four of dock's proposed dimensions of religiosity are compared to the scientist-nonscientist dichotomy of fields and to “scholarly distance from religion,” a construct delineated in the paper. The scientist-nonscientist scheme is not predictive of religiosity scores. S…
The Unsilent South: Prophetic Preaching in Racial Crisis
An Ethic For Enemies: Forgiveness In Politics
Shriver shows that the concept of forgiveness, long relegated to the realm of the personal, is surprisingly relevant and important to political life. He uses three examples from recent American history - our relations with Germany and Japan, and the civil rights struggle - to show the importance of forgiveness in overcoming the traditional hatreds that threaten to cripple our society.
Academic Discipline As Predictive of Faculty Religiosity
Data from a probability sample of a state university faculty are analyzed to determine whether academic discipline is predictive of faculty religiosity. Wide variations observed on four of dock's proposed dimensions of religiosity are compared to the scientist-nonscientist dichotomy of fields and to “scholarly distance from religion,” a construct delineated in the paper. The scientist-nonscientist scheme is not predictive of religiosity scores. S…
The Conception of Sectarian Religion: An Effort at Clarification
The Unsilent South: Prophetic Preaching in Racial Crisis
Academic Discipline As Predictive of Faculty Religiosity
Data from a probability sample of a state university faculty are analyzed to determine whether academic discipline is predictive of faculty religiosity. Wide variations observed on four of dock's proposed dimensions of religiosity are compared to the scientist-nonscientist dichotomy of fields and to “scholarly distance from religion,” a construct delineated in the paper. The scientist-nonscientist scheme is not predictive of religiosity scores. S…
Continuity and Change in Society and Theology
“Are there abiding principles of selection in the Hebrew-Christian tradition which provide for the re-formation of tradition itself? Perhaps the major division among theologians today is over that question. Some argue that the Hebrew-Christian tradition is to be reformed from within its own presuppositions; others argue that it can only be reformed from without by some really new presuppositions of the twentieth century. As a participant in the c…
Man and His Machines: Four Angles of Vision
In one of the most vivid images of civilization ever to flit across a cinema screen, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey opens with a hominid's discovery of the first tool-a club which enables him to crush the skulls of antelopes and fellow hominids with equal ease. In the transitional sequence from this primordial evolution time to A.D. 2001, the slow-motion camera follows a toss of the club into the air, and phases it gracefully into the fo…
Counterrevolution and Revolt
Ethics and the Urban Ethos
Spindles and Spires: A Re-Study of Religion and Social Change in Gastonia
Spindles and Spires
Journal Article Spindles and Spires by John R. Earle, Dean D. Knudson, and Donald W. Srhiver, Jr. Atlanta, Georgia: John Knox Press, 1977, 382 pp. $5.95 Get access Donald R. Ploch Donald R. Ploch University of Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 38, Issue 4, Winter 1977, Pages 417–418, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710129 Published: 01 December 1977
Spindles and Spires
Spindles and Spires: A Re-Study of Religion and Social Change in Gastonia
Spindles and Spires: A Re-Study of Religion and Social Change in Gastonia
Reply by Authors
Spindles and Spires: A Re-Study of Religion and Social Change in Gastonia
The Conception of Sectarian Religion: An Effort at Clarification
Spindles and Spires
The Churches and the Future of Racism
“For the first time in the history of American race relations, there is now a fair chance that people of different histories, different theologies, and different social perspectives may actually be capable of communicating these differences to each other, in a new expression of the ‘one body with many members.’”
An Ethic For Enemies: Forgiveness In Politics
Shriver shows that the concept of forgiveness, long relegated to the realm of the personal, is surprisingly relevant and important to political life. He uses three examples from recent American history - our relations with Germany and Japan, and the civil rights struggle - to show the importance of forgiveness in overcoming the traditional hatreds that threaten to cripple our society.
Truth Commissions and Judicial Trials: Complementary or Antagonistic Servants of Public Justice
“The call to punish human rights criminals can present complex and agonising problems that have no single or simple solution. While the debate over the Nuremberg trials still goes on, that episode—trials of war criminals of a defeated nation—was simplicity itself as compared to the subtle and dangerous issues that can divide a country when it undertakes to punish its own violators.” -Judge Marvin Frankel “That's what lawyers do, Mark. They twist …
How Will We Manage Diversity: A Response to Jean Bethke Elshtain
In basic agreement with Elshtain's suspicion of a rationalist basis for defining human nature and ethics, this response underscores the importance of story, history, and collective experience for our achieving of such definitions. At stake in the debate are two vital anthropological questions: (1) Who are we that we should value each other and ascribe rights to each other? The “thin” rationalist answer to this question is that we just believe in …
Honest Patriots: Loving a Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds
The book records attempts in three countries — Germany, South Africa, and the United States — to educate patriots who are neither loveless critics nor uncritical lovers of their nation, but rather loving critics. How does a national public learn to acknowledge the “dark side” of their country’s history? In the post-1945 years, Germans slowly but surely came to pay public attention to the evils of the Nazi era. In an astonishing accumulation of me…
The Utility of Forgiveness
Tradition largely confines forgiveness to interpersonal relations, and most Westerners understand it as an exclusively religious concept. However, we should not ignore or downplay the secular utilitarian value of forgiveness. To say that forgivenessis “useful” in politics is not to demean its ethical and theological significance. For recovery from the uselessness of most warfare, forgiveness may be a critically important political virtue, althoug…
Law, Religion, and Restorative Justice in New Zealand
A former police chief and a criminologist confirm a famous remark by Margaret Mead when they write: “The initiation of restorative reforms is often based upon the conversion of one key professional in a criminal justice agency.” New Zealand district court judge Fred W.M. McElrea personalized this rule in his account of how he stumbled on a restorative procedure in the case of a young man in Auckland, who was a Maori and son of a bishop, and who c…
Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims?: Competing Claims?
As US-China relations head into a period of intense activity and sensitivity, this work addresses the impact of US and Chinese domestic factors on post-Cold War / post-Tiananmen relations.
Religion and Human Rights: Competing Claims
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