...Williams’s vision of toleration did not insist on carefully policing speech to avoid disquiet. Like Luther, Williams held that aggressive evangelism entailed offensive speech, or what Luther had described as...
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Mere Civility and Jeremiah Wright
by Benjamin Hertzberg...view their fellows with sincere respect. Williams was not so sanguine: Sectarianism will lead to mutual insult. For Williams, his religion demanded such: the evangelist must condemn sin. But it...
On intellectual hospitality and the plenitude of time: A response to Bardawil
by Anand Vivek Taneja...As Fadi Bardawil notes in his perceptive essay on The Arabic Freud, in the dominant academic readings of the encounter of the reified “West” with colonized societies such as Egypt,...
Power and civility
by Murad Idris...Roger Williams, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke will be of great interest to historians of political thought, democratic theorists, and those interested in (or troubled by) today’s civility talk. With...
Sex & aggression
by Jimmy Casas Klausen...a humanist ideal rather than a transcendent, divine one. Neo-Nietzscheans, on Taylor’s account, embrace human wildness as a necessary consequence of affirming the superabundance of life in the will to...
An exceptional tradition? The Jesuits in the world
...earlier, to heal Wilson. Wilson sees an apparition of Berchmans, who touches her tongue and tells her, “Your sufferings are over, fear not.” When the nuns return to tend to...
How to do things in with words
by Ruth Marshall...paid to attempts to find in Williams a neo-Kantian secular liberal à la Nussbaum, while her twenty first-century “rehabilitation” does not provide the grounds for endorsing the excesses of Williams’s...
The theological significance of ethical wills
by Nicole GreenfieldAt Sightings, Joshua M. Z. Stanton discusses the value of ethical wills for interreligious dialogue: Unlike their legal counterparts, ethical wills are documents that contain the hopes, insights, and experiences...
Translation, tradition, and the ethical turn: A reply to Bardawil and Allan
by Omnia El Shakry...Michael Allan and Fadi Bardawil remark, models the ethos and practice of translation through its method. Here, the work of translation is “not mired in a question of translational directionality,”...
The ethics of gender selection
...the wilderness is told by an angel of God to return to enslavement. Williams wrestles with this painful interpretation as a contemporary African American Christian woman. According to Williams, the...