RT Article
T1 Colloquy with Clifford G. Christians in Urbana-Champaign
JF Church, Communication and Culture
VO 1
IS 1
SP 135
OP 161
A1 Christians, Clifford G. 1939-
A1 Cortes, Robert Z.
LA English
PB Taylor & Francis
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/166268617X
AB On 14 September 2015, Clifford G. Christians, one of the world's leading communication ethics scholar, was interviewed by Robert Z. Cortes, a PhD candidate of the Pontifical University of Santa Croce (Rome, Italy), in the campus of the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). This article is an edited version of that interview. The themes covered in this interview span almost the entire range of Christians' scholarship in communication ethics. Responding to straight-from-the-shoulder questions in reciprocally candid fashion, Christians re-affirmed and added nuances to topics he has thoroughly treated in much of his written work: the importance of both theoretical ethics and practical case discussions in a free-standing course in ethics; openness with one's own, and to the other's, worldview and pre-suppositions as the basis of any conversation in ethics; the evolution of communitarianism to communitas; the necessity and challenges of including religious ethics in the discussion of ethics; the possibilities of achieving a global normative theory for communication ethics. For the first time, Christians comments more directly on his collaboration with some Catholic scholars and compares his idea of 'faith and reason' with that of an influential Catholic thinker.
K1 Calvinism
K1 Catholicism
K1 Clifford G. Christians
K1 Confucianism
K1 Islam
K1 Communication
K1 communitarian
K1 Education
K1 Ethics
K1 Faith
K1 Media
K1 proto-norm
K1 Reason
K1 Universals
K1 Interview
DO 10.1080/23753234.2016.1181310