The Ethics of Tainted Legacies

Karen V. Guth is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. She is the author of Christian Ethics at the Boundary: Feminism and Theologies of Public Life (Fortress, 2015) and numerous articles in publications including the Journal of Religious Ethics, the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, and the Christian Century.

• 1. Tainted legacies: morally injurious 'remainders' of traumatic pasts; 2. Common responses to tainted legacies; 3. 'Biblical birthright' and the #MeToo movement: feminist and womanist biblical scholarship on how to read cultural texts of terror; 4. Heritage and hate: womanist ethics and the confederate monuments debate; 5. Inheriting America's original sin: can our alma maters make amends for slavery?; 6. Individual and institutional responses to John Howard Yoder's tainted legacy: fostering flourishing from a traumatic past.

'This is original work that not only benefits the field of Christian ethics, but also the larger social contexts from which these tainted legacies and any possible remedies will emerge. This book is accessible while also being challenging, both in the depth of its insight and the seriousness of the problems addressed.' Rebekah Miles, Reading Religion