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- Title
Prophecy Without Contempt: Metaphors, Imagination, and Evaluative Criteria.
- Authors
Childress, James F.
- Abstract
Abstract: While greatly appreciative of Kaveny's important study of a neglected form of religious/moral discourse in the public square, this essay critically examines her metaphors for prophetic indictments and finds the metaphor of moral chemotherapy particularly problematic and the metaphor of warfare, connected with the just‐war tradition, more promising. It stresses the difficulty, if not the impossibility, of avoiding contempt in prophetic indictments, as Kaveny conceives them, and finds her proposed solutions to this problem—standing with the people and expressing empathy and compassion toward them—inadequate to the task. It further argues that attending to prophetic imagination, in addition to prophetic denunciation, can broaden the scope of practical deliberation and, at the same time, increase possible prophetic contributions to moral and political discourse.
- Subjects
IMAGINATION in religion; PROPHECY; EMPATHY; CONTEMPT (Attitude); METAPHOR; RELIGION
- Publication
Journal of Religious Ethics, 2018, Vol 46, Issue 1, p167
- ISSN
0384-9694
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jore.12211