Jonathan Malesic
Biographic Data
| ID | 1694735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Malesic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Malesic |
| SIGNATURE | MALESIC J |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College - Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The End of Burnout
End of Burnout
Covid‐19 and Religious Ethics
The editors of the JRE solicited short essays on the COVID‐19 pandemic from a group of scholars of religious ethics that reflected on how the field might help them make sense of the complex religious, cultural, ethical, and political implications of the pandemic, and on how the pandemic might shape the future of religious ethics
Henry David Thoreau's Anti‐Work Spirituality and a New Theological Ethic of Work
Although Henry David Thoreau stands outside the Christian canon, his outlook on the relations among spirituality, ecology, and economy highlights how Christian theologians can develop a theological work ethic in our era of economic and ecological precarity. He can furthermore help theologians counter the pro‐work bias in much Christian thought. In Walden , Thoreau shows that the best work is an ascetic practice that reveals and reaps the abundanc…
A Kenotic Struggle for Dignity
Although Booker T. Washington stands outside the theological canon, his writings offer a pragmatic theology that connects the desire for dignity to a kenotic Christology through an ethic of unceasing work. While Washington's project to improve the lives of African Americans in the Jim Crow–era South was severely compromised by political circumstances, problems within his theology of work made his project especially susceptible to those circumstan…
The Paralyzing Instant
Kierkegaard in F ear and T rembling presents a reductio ad absurdum regarding the time‐spans subject to moral evaluation. The text's classic dilemma depends on assuming that we only evaluate discrete, contextless instants. The pseudonymous author constantly seeks the single instant or moral “photograph” that indicates A braham's status. Doing so, however, extracts scripture's moral legislation out from narrative, resulting in theological paralysi…
Behaving in Public
Why can't you behave? To some Christian ethicists, this is what the exasperated, paternalistic secular state asks unruly Christians when they use theological language in public discussion. Hence theology's supposed forced option: if it doesn't actively confront “the World,” then it retreats into liberalism and irrelevance. In his book, Nigal Biggar presents a way between the church militant and the church redundant. To him, behaving in public dem…
Strange Wonder
Journal Article Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe. By Mary-Jane Rubenstein Get access Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe. By Rubenstein Mary-Jane. Columbia University Press, 2009. 272 pages. $50.00. Jonathan Malesic Jonathan Malesic King's College, Pennsylvania [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Ac…
Kierkegaard and Socrates
A Secret both Sinister and Salvific
Kantian philosophy and revealed religion stand at odds over secrecy’s normative status: philosophy condemns secrecy and religion approves of it. These rival evaluations of secrecy are explored in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, with reference to Abraham’s secret plan to sacrifice Isaac. Kierkegaard’s dialectic shows that religion’s commitment to the possibility of particular revelation—something I characterize as an “unsayable” secret—is the so…
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A Secret both Sinister and Salvific
Kantian philosophy and revealed religion stand at odds over secrecy’s normative status: philosophy condemns secrecy and religion approves of it. These rival evaluations of secrecy are explored in Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling, with reference to Abraham’s secret plan to sacrifice Isaac. Kierkegaard’s dialectic shows that religion’s commitment to the possibility of particular revelation—something I characterize as an “unsayable” secret—is the so…
Kierkegaard and Socrates
Strange Wonder
Journal Article Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe. By Mary-Jane Rubenstein Get access Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe. By Rubenstein Mary-Jane. Columbia University Press, 2009. 272 pages. $50.00. Jonathan Malesic Jonathan Malesic King's College, Pennsylvania [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Ac…
Behaving in Public
Why can't you behave? To some Christian ethicists, this is what the exasperated, paternalistic secular state asks unruly Christians when they use theological language in public discussion. Hence theology's supposed forced option: if it doesn't actively confront “the World,” then it retreats into liberalism and irrelevance. In his book, Nigal Biggar presents a way between the church militant and the church redundant. To him, behaving in public dem…
The Paralyzing Instant
Kierkegaard in F ear and T rembling presents a reductio ad absurdum regarding the time‐spans subject to moral evaluation. The text's classic dilemma depends on assuming that we only evaluate discrete, contextless instants. The pseudonymous author constantly seeks the single instant or moral “photograph” that indicates A braham's status. Doing so, however, extracts scripture's moral legislation out from narrative, resulting in theological paralysi…
A Kenotic Struggle for Dignity
Although Booker T. Washington stands outside the theological canon, his writings offer a pragmatic theology that connects the desire for dignity to a kenotic Christology through an ethic of unceasing work. While Washington's project to improve the lives of African Americans in the Jim Crow–era South was severely compromised by political circumstances, problems within his theology of work made his project especially susceptible to those circumstan…
Henry David Thoreau's Anti‐Work Spirituality and a New Theological Ethic of Work
Although Henry David Thoreau stands outside the Christian canon, his outlook on the relations among spirituality, ecology, and economy highlights how Christian theologians can develop a theological work ethic in our era of economic and ecological precarity. He can furthermore help theologians counter the pro‐work bias in much Christian thought. In Walden , Thoreau shows that the best work is an ascetic practice that reveals and reaps the abundanc…
Covid‐19 and Religious Ethics
The editors of the JRE solicited short essays on the COVID‐19 pandemic from a group of scholars of religious ethics that reflected on how the field might help them make sense of the complex religious, cultural, ethical, and political implications of the pandemic, and on how the pandemic might shape the future of religious ethics
The End of Burnout
End of Burnout
Philosophy (8 works) · Theology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works)