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Jeff Morgan argues that both Immanuel Kant and Soren Kierkegaard
think of conscience as an individual's moral self-awareness before
God, specifically before the claim God makes on each person. This
innovative reading corrects prevailing views that both figures,
especially Kant, lay the groundwork for the autonomous individual
of modern life - that is, the atomistic individual who is
accountable chiefly to themselves as their own lawmaker. This book
first challenges the dismissal of conscience in 20th-century
Christian ethics, often in favour of an emphasis on corporate life
and corporate self-understanding. Morgan shows that this dismissal
is based on a misinterpretation of Immanuel Kant's practical
philosophy and moral theology, and of Soren Kierkegaard's second
authorship. He does this with refreshing discussions of Stanley
Hauerwas, Oliver O'Donovan, and other major figures. Morgan instead
situates Kant and Kierkegaard within a broad trajectory in
Christian thought in which an individual's moral self-awareness
before God, as distinct from moral self-awareness before a
community, is an essential feature of the Christian moral life.
Kirk Langner, better known as Piece Maker on the Appalachian Trail,
planned a nine-day hike on some of the most rugged parts of the
trail in North Carolina and Tennessee, but he had not planned for
what would eventually change his life forever. Kirk spends a lot of
time walking the woods, much of this done alone, giving him the
opportunity to ponder his ineffectual relationships with his wife
and daughter and his increasing lack of faith in God. He eventually
meets an assortment of personalities on the trail, resulting in
sometimes humorous, sometimes tearful events, and he eventually
begins to understand the reason for his seemingly lost
relationships with the people he loves the most and why he has
begun to lose faith in God. High in the North Carolina mountains,
he befriends an old man who begins to share with him his wisdom
about life, relationships, prayer, and faith, enlightening him like
never before. The old man explains some of the most difficult
concepts of life in some of the simplest ways, and "Piece Maker,"
who spiritually and emotionally had been lost, is found.
Comic poetry is serious stuff, combining incongruity, satire and
psychological effects to provide us a brief victory over reason
that could help us save ourselves, if not the world. Taking a
theoretical perspective, this book champions the literary movement
of American comic poetry, providing historical context and
exploring the work of such writers as Denise Duhamel, Campbell
McGrath, Billy Collins, Thomas Lux and Tony Hoagland. The
techniques of these poets are examined to reveal how they make us
laugh while addressing important social concerns.
Jeff Morgan argues that both Immanuel Kant and Soren Kierkegaard
think of conscience as an individual's moral self-awareness before
God, specifically before the claim God makes on each person. This
innovative reading corrects prevailing views that both figures,
especially Kant, lay the groundwork for the autonomous individual
of modern life - that is, the atomistic individual who is
accountable chiefly to themselves as their own lawmaker. This book
first challenges the dismissal of conscience in 20th-century
Christian ethics, often in favour of an emphasis on corporate life
and corporate self-understanding. Morgan shows that this dismissal
is based on a misinterpretation of Immanuel Kant's practical
philosophy and moral theology, and of Soren Kierkegaard's second
authorship. He does this with refreshing discussions of Stanley
Hauerwas, Oliver O'Donovan, and other major figures. Morgan instead
situates Kant and Kierkegaard within a broad trajectory in
Christian thought in which an individual's moral self-awareness
before God, as distinct from moral self-awareness before a
community, is an essential feature of the Christian moral life.
Kirk Langner, better known as Piece Maker on the Appalachian Trail,
planned a nine-day hike on some of the most rugged parts of the
trail in North Carolina and Tennessee, but he had not planned for
what would eventually change his life forever. Kirk spends a lot of
time walking the woods, much of this done alone, giving him the
opportunity to ponder his ineffectual relationships with his wife
and daughter and his increasing lack of faith in God. He eventually
meets an assortment of personalities on the trail, resulting in
sometimes humorous, sometimes tearful events, and he eventually
begins to understand the reason for his seemingly lost
relationships with the people he loves the most and why he has
begun to lose faith in God. High in the North Carolina mountains,
he befriends an old man who begins to share with him his wisdom
about life, relationships, prayer, and faith, enlightening him like
never before. The old man explains some of the most difficult
concepts of life in some of the simplest ways, and "Piece Maker,"
who spiritually and emotionally had been lost, is found.
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