Kristopher Norris

Biographic Data

ID6001227
NAMEKristopher Norris
GIVEN NAMESKristopher
FAMILY NAMENorris
SIGNATURENORRIS K
AFFILIATIONSVisiting Professor of Public Theology, Wesley Theological Seminary
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX0

  • Witnessing Whiteness

    Kristopher NorrisBOOKWitnessing Whiteness2020

    Witnessing Whiteness analyzes the current racial climate of American Christianity and argues for a new ethics of responsibility to confront white supremacy. Examining the current manifestations of racism in American churches, exploring the theological roots of white supremacy, and reflecting on the ways whiteness impacts even well-meaning, progressive white theologians, this book diagnoses the ways that all of white theology and white Christian p…

  • Race and Resurrection

    Open AccessKay Norris, Kristopher NorrisARTICLETheology Today2020

    This essay argues that Paul’s discourses in 1 Corinthians 12 and 15 concerning the church as the Body of Christ and the resurrection of the body offer a biblical challenge to colorblind white supremacy when read in conversation with feminist and womanist theologians. Reading Paul through feminist and womanist treatments of the body and trauma provides a nuanced theology of the body and a complex account of the concrete wounds of white supremacy w…

  • Witnessing Whiteness in the Ethics of Hauerwas

    Open AccessKay Norris, Kristopher NorrisARTICLEJournal of Religious Ethics2019

    Despite constituting one of the most pressing ethical issues of our time, most white Christian ethicists and theologians fail to engage the issue of white supremacy in their work. As one of the most influential and prolific Christian ethicists of the past half‐century, Stanley Hauerwas represents this tendency, and provides specific reasons for his silence. This essay analyzes those reasons, and argues that a commitment to Alasdair MacIntyre’s un…

  • A (Multi-) Story-formed Community

    Kay Norris, Kristopher Norris et al.ARTICLEEcclesial Practices2017

    This article analyzes the ways multiple formative narratives interact to shape the identity and political practices of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, home of Martin Luther King. We argue that the two key narratives of gospel story in scripture and the church’s particular civil rights legacy form the identity and practice of this community in complicated ways: sometimes they are synthesized, sometimes one narrative is temporally merg…

  • Deliberating Just War

    Open AccessKay Norris, Kristopher NorrisARTICLEJournal of Religious Ethics2015

    This essay responds to J ames T urner J ohnson's critiques of my argument in “‘Never Again War’: Recent Shifts in the Roman Catholic Just War Tradition and the Question of ‘Functional Pacifism.’” (2014). It attends specifically to three of J ohnson's objections and offers accounts of the meaning and use of the term “functional pacifism,” an understanding of classic just war thought as a tradition, and the concepts of peace and authority within ju…

  • Never Again War”

    Open AccessKay Norris, Kristopher NorrisARTICLEJournal of Religious Ethics2014

    This essay addresses the complexities of the R oman C atholic position on war by evaluating recent documentary evidence, attending to the contemporary challenges of terrorism and humanitarian interventions. It presents two arguments. First, attending to traditional C atholic resources for assessing war, papal criticism of recent military action, and debates about a recent shift in C atholic just war logic, this essay argues that C atholic teachin…