Confronting Religious Judgmentalism : Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination.

"Come to church or go to hell. That's religious bullying. It's judgmentalism. And it's a theological distortion, a distortion insisting that shame and self-loathing are morally appropriate. In Christian humanist tradition, God is not some cosmic judge eager to smite all of us for...

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Main Author: Wallace, Catherine M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Eugene : Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2016.
©2016
Series:Confronting fundamentalism.
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Table of Contents:
  • Confronting fundamentalism: it's judgmental
  • 1998, 1968, 1970: just an opinion
  • Shame and the American character
  • 1960: what the sky seemed to say
  • Shame as a moral issue: the forbidden fruit
  • From judgment to judgmentalism: some quick history
  • Where do we look?
  • The great Enlightenment project
  • David Hume's alternative: the good heart
  • How do we know?
  • Is this heresy?
  • Conscience as a creative process
  • Postscript: What I should have said to my son.