...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
...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...
Power and civility
...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...
On intellectual hospitality and the plenitude of time: A response to Bardawil

...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,...
Sex & aggression
...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
year 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...
Rowan Williams and Karl Marx
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, responds to the financial crisis in the Spectator: Marx long ago observed the way in which unbridled capitalism became a kind of mythology, ascribing...
The ethics of gender selection
...the pursuit of “designer babies,” even though many who seek this kind of intervention do so in order to avoid life-threatening diseases. In Delores Williams’ Sisters in the Wilderness: The...
How to do things in with words
...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...
Translation, tradition, and the ethical turn: A reply to Bardawil and Allan

...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,”...