RT Article
T1 Moral injury and the ethics of teaching tainted legacies
JF Teaching theology and religion
VO 21
IS 3
SP 197
OP 209
A1 Guth, Karen V. 1979-
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/157756667X
AB Cases like that of John Howard Yoder - a pacifist theorist who perpetrated sexual violence - raise difficult questions about teaching material implicated in traumatic pasts. This paper argues that “moral injury” provides a useful framework for understanding the dynamics of teaching prominent cases of tainted legacies like Yoder's and for developing best pedagogical practices across the field of religious ethics. The moral injury framework empowers students to think critically and self-reflectively about authority, conceptions of the good, the various stakes for different persons and communities in social issues, and the need for moral repair. It establishes the importance of professor and student preparation; propels students into the moral questioning and analysis that constitutes “ethics”; draws attention to the connections between and intersectionality of various moral problems while also attending to important moral distinctions; and affords opportunities to study individual and institutional efforts at moral repair.
K1 John Howard Yoder
K1 Moral Injury
K1 Pacifism
K1 Sexual Violence
K1 tainted legacies
DO 10.1111/teth.12441