Daniel A Morris
Biographic Data
| ID | 1238544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel A Morris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel A |
| FAMILY NAME | Morris |
| SIGNATURE | MORRIS D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8655-7691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Crisis of Higher Education
Can't Hide from God
The recent deaths of unarmed black people, especially at the hands of law enforcement, have generated a troubling new ritual, in which the media publically asks family members if they will forgive their loved ones' killers. The first task of this paper is to cast these petitions for forgiveness as ritual. The second task is to show that black responses to the question of forgiveness challenge this ritual. Esaw Garner, Audrey DuBose, and Allison J…
The Bible in American Politics
The Bible has been tremendously influential in American politics by informing grand political theories and by justifying specific policy positions. This chapter analyzes the Bible’s role in political metanarratives and its use in policy positions. From the Puritans’ invocation of Exodus and the City on a Hill through Cold War evangelicals’ interpretations of Revelation, political metanarratives have been animated by divergent and contentious read…
Reinhold Niebuhr
Liberated from the Liberator
I argue that Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison held very different political theologies, even while they seemed to work productively together from 1841 to 1847. Examining Douglass's self-presentation on both sides of his split with Garrison, I conclude that he stifled his Christian moral vision in order to comply with Garrisonian theological ideals while working in New England. After moving to Rochester, New York, Douglass was free to…
The Pull of Love”
Although Reinhold Niebuhr's account of democracy aims to protect marginalized communities by restraining sin through the diffusion of power, the conceptions of sin and love that inform his political theology have anti-democratic consequences for members of these communities. I address this inconsistency by revisiting his under-developed idea of mutual love and clarifying his account of sin. Mutual love occupies crucial terrain between agape and j…
Reason and Emotion in the Ethics of Self‐Restraint
In this essay I argue that R einhold N iebuhr's ethics of self‐restraint, though promising, is based on an incomplete and imprecise moral psychology. Although N iebuhr claims that reason cannot provide a sufficient grounding to motivate self‐restraint, he does not disclose which human capacity might serve this purpose. I suggest that we can address this oversight by strengthening N iebuhr's tentative embrace of D avid H ume, and by developing a c…
Frank Bidart's Voice and the Erasure of Jewish Difference in “Ellen West”
In “Ellen West” (1977) Frank Bidart engages with an intertextual poetics by including “found” prose from the English translation of Lionel Binswanger's case history to lend historical veracity to lyric passages spoken by West, a European Jew who died in 1921. In his representation of Binswanger's text, however, Bidart omits key points that connect West's disgust with her “Jewish” body type to her internalization of an anti-Semitic discourse. Inst…
Improvisation as Democratic Virtue A Deweyan Possibility for African American Religion and Ethics
This article explores the reception of John Dewey's philosophical pragmatism by scholars in African American religion and ethics and argues that Dewey's usefulness in these disciplines has not yet run dry. Cornel West and Eddie S. Glaude Jr. have drawn on Dewey's work to inform their scholarship on black religion. In response to Glaude's account of “post-soul politics” (by which he means the contemporary political struggle for racial justice, whi…
Unnoticed Consensus
My Shoes”
(1996). “My Shoes”: Charles Simic's Self-Portraits. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 109-127
Without Valid Restraints
Whose life is saved by rock and roll
The Crisis of Higher Education
Can't Hide from God
The recent deaths of unarmed black people, especially at the hands of law enforcement, have generated a troubling new ritual, in which the media publically asks family members if they will forgive their loved ones' killers. The first task of this paper is to cast these petitions for forgiveness as ritual. The second task is to show that black responses to the question of forgiveness challenge this ritual. Esaw Garner, Audrey DuBose, and Allison J…
Whose life is saved by rock and roll
Without Valid Restraints
My Shoes”
(1996). “My Shoes”: Charles Simic's Self-Portraits. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 109-127
Improvisation as Democratic Virtue A Deweyan Possibility for African American Religion and Ethics
This article explores the reception of John Dewey's philosophical pragmatism by scholars in African American religion and ethics and argues that Dewey's usefulness in these disciplines has not yet run dry. Cornel West and Eddie S. Glaude Jr. have drawn on Dewey's work to inform their scholarship on black religion. In response to Glaude's account of “post-soul politics” (by which he means the contemporary political struggle for racial justice, whi…
Unnoticed Consensus
Reason and Emotion in the Ethics of Self‐Restraint
In this essay I argue that R einhold N iebuhr's ethics of self‐restraint, though promising, is based on an incomplete and imprecise moral psychology. Although N iebuhr claims that reason cannot provide a sufficient grounding to motivate self‐restraint, he does not disclose which human capacity might serve this purpose. I suggest that we can address this oversight by strengthening N iebuhr's tentative embrace of D avid H ume, and by developing a c…
Frank Bidart's Voice and the Erasure of Jewish Difference in “Ellen West”
In “Ellen West” (1977) Frank Bidart engages with an intertextual poetics by including “found” prose from the English translation of Lionel Binswanger's case history to lend historical veracity to lyric passages spoken by West, a European Jew who died in 1921. In his representation of Binswanger's text, however, Bidart omits key points that connect West's disgust with her “Jewish” body type to her internalization of an anti-Semitic discourse. Inst…
The Pull of Love”
Although Reinhold Niebuhr's account of democracy aims to protect marginalized communities by restraining sin through the diffusion of power, the conceptions of sin and love that inform his political theology have anti-democratic consequences for members of these communities. I address this inconsistency by revisiting his under-developed idea of mutual love and clarifying his account of sin. Mutual love occupies crucial terrain between agape and j…
Reinhold Niebuhr
Liberated from the Liberator
I argue that Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison held very different political theologies, even while they seemed to work productively together from 1841 to 1847. Examining Douglass's self-presentation on both sides of his split with Garrison, I conclude that he stifled his Christian moral vision in order to comply with Garrisonian theological ideals while working in New England. After moving to Rochester, New York, Douglass was free to…
The Bible in American Politics
The Bible has been tremendously influential in American politics by informing grand political theories and by justifying specific policy positions. This chapter analyzes the Bible’s role in political metanarratives and its use in policy positions. From the Puritans’ invocation of Exodus and the City on a Hill through Cold War evangelicals’ interpretations of Revelation, political metanarratives have been animated by divergent and contentious read…
Can't Hide from God
The recent deaths of unarmed black people, especially at the hands of law enforcement, have generated a troubling new ritual, in which the media publically asks family members if they will forgive their loved ones' killers. The first task of this paper is to cast these petitions for forgiveness as ritual. The second task is to show that black responses to the question of forgiveness challenge this ritual. Esaw Garner, Audrey DuBose, and Allison J…
The Crisis of Higher Education
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