Kristin E Heyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 6716399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin E Heyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin E |
| FAMILY NAME | Heyer |
| SIGNATURE | HEYER K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola Marymount University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7456-4819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Moral Imagination and the Future of Ethics
The 2023 theme for the Society of Christian Ethics invites us to consider what fuels our collective imagination in the United States today, its impact, and implications for the future of the field of ethics. American exceptionalism, racial anxieties and fear help feed influential myths that prevent the nation from “making real the promises of democracy,” much less approaching the Beloved Community (King). Whereas ethics often focuses upon critiqu…
Walls in the Heart
In Fratelli tutti, Pope Francis probes structural and ideological threats to people’s social instincts and shared good(s) in contexts of fragmentation and false securities (§ 7). His approach to these pervasive temptations to build a culture of walls “in the heart” and “on the land” employs structural analyses but also elevates ideologies abetting the harms these walls wreak, signaling a development in the use of social sin in line with related e…
Migrants Feared and Forsaken
Basic human rights reflected in international rights regimes and presupposed in Catholic social ethics are universal in theory, yet in practice their exercise depends upon legally sanctioned membership in a political community. This gap between the normativity of the dignity of the migrant and the practical denial of their rights is maintained by (1) standard paradigms for analysing migration and (2) a related neglect of structural injustices tha…
Beyond a Northern Paradigm
Notwithstanding the commitment to the inclusion of historically underrepresented communities, Christian ethics continues to be dominated by the voices, concerns, norms and methodologies of scholars from the northern hemisphere. This paper analyses the state of the field through the lens of the Catholic Theological Ethics in a World Church network whose mission is to promote international exchange. It assesses the lacunae arising from the northern…
Great Mystics & Social Justice
Strangers in Our Midst
The recently released "On the Corner: Day Labor in the United States," the first systematic, scientific study of the US day-labor sector, exposes the pervasive abuse of day laborers within its borders. In a time when immigration reform debates are frequently clouded by rhetoric of fear and bias, this article aims to shed light on the precarious vulnerability of this understudied group and a Christian moral response to their plight. It offers a no…
How Does Theology Go Public? Rethinking the Debate between David Tracy and George Lindbeck
The possibilities for taking theological ethics ‘public’ have taken on added significance amidst debates over the nature of moral norms. If realist theological ethics can find a public voice, it will enhance the prospects for interreligious ethical collaboration and the place of theology in it. A key question remains whether particular contexts of religious symbols render them meaningful only within communities of ‘origin’, or particularity actua…
US Catholic Discipleship and Citizenship
While some fear that political values so contradict gospel values that engagement with wider society risks religious corruption, Roman Catholic teaching encourages civic engagement even with political structures, while remaining cautious that such collaboration does not become cooptation. Negotiating the tensions between discipleship and citizenship in practice has given rise to different stances within the American Catholic community, particular…
How Does Theology Go Public? Rethinking the Debate between David Tracy and George Lindbeck
The possibilities for taking theological ethics ‘public’ have taken on added significance amidst debates over the nature of moral norms. If realist theological ethics can find a public voice, it will enhance the prospects for interreligious ethical collaboration and the place of theology in it. A key question remains whether particular contexts of religious symbols render them meaningful only within communities of ‘origin’, or particularity actua…
US Catholic Discipleship and Citizenship
While some fear that political values so contradict gospel values that engagement with wider society risks religious corruption, Roman Catholic teaching encourages civic engagement even with political structures, while remaining cautious that such collaboration does not become cooptation. Negotiating the tensions between discipleship and citizenship in practice has given rise to different stances within the American Catholic community, particular…
How Does Theology Go Public? Rethinking the Debate between David Tracy and George Lindbeck
The possibilities for taking theological ethics ‘public’ have taken on added significance amidst debates over the nature of moral norms. If realist theological ethics can find a public voice, it will enhance the prospects for interreligious ethical collaboration and the place of theology in it. A key question remains whether particular contexts of religious symbols render them meaningful only within communities of ‘origin’, or particularity actua…
Strangers in Our Midst
The recently released "On the Corner: Day Labor in the United States," the first systematic, scientific study of the US day-labor sector, exposes the pervasive abuse of day laborers within its borders. In a time when immigration reform debates are frequently clouded by rhetoric of fear and bias, this article aims to shed light on the precarious vulnerability of this understudied group and a Christian moral response to their plight. It offers a no…
Great Mystics & Social Justice
Beyond a Northern Paradigm
Notwithstanding the commitment to the inclusion of historically underrepresented communities, Christian ethics continues to be dominated by the voices, concerns, norms and methodologies of scholars from the northern hemisphere. This paper analyses the state of the field through the lens of the Catholic Theological Ethics in a World Church network whose mission is to promote international exchange. It assesses the lacunae arising from the northern…
Migrants Feared and Forsaken
Basic human rights reflected in international rights regimes and presupposed in Catholic social ethics are universal in theory, yet in practice their exercise depends upon legally sanctioned membership in a political community. This gap between the normativity of the dignity of the migrant and the practical denial of their rights is maintained by (1) standard paradigms for analysing migration and (2) a related neglect of structural injustices tha…
Walls in the Heart
In Fratelli tutti, Pope Francis probes structural and ideological threats to people’s social instincts and shared good(s) in contexts of fragmentation and false securities (§ 7). His approach to these pervasive temptations to build a culture of walls “in the heart” and “on the land” employs structural analyses but also elevates ideologies abetting the harms these walls wreak, signaling a development in the use of social sin in line with related e…
Moral Imagination and the Future of Ethics
The 2023 theme for the Society of Christian Ethics invites us to consider what fuels our collective imagination in the United States today, its impact, and implications for the future of the field of ethics. American exceptionalism, racial anxieties and fear help feed influential myths that prevent the nation from “making real the promises of democracy,” much less approaching the Beloved Community (King). Whereas ethics often focuses upon critiqu…
Sociology (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Social science (2 works)