All Articles tagged Moral Injury

• Introduction
  January 02, 2025 EDT
  Introduction: Touching the Wounds
  M. Therese Lysaught

  This introduction describes the contributions of the January 2025 issue of the Journal of Moral Theology as theologizing within the wounds of depression, moral injury, trauma, populist scapegoating, and violence.

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• Symposium
  January 02, 2025 EDT
  Theologizing Across Psychology: Experiences of Depression, Trauma, and Moral Injury
  Stephanie C. EdwardsCatherine Yanko

  Introduction to a roundtable discussing theological reflection on psychological distress through engaging Jessica Coblentz's Dust in the Blood and featuring contributions from Catherine Yanko, Stephanie Edwards and Jessica Coblentz.

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• Symposium
  January 02, 2025 EDT
  Christian Ethics, Trauma, and Dust in the Blood: Moving Toward Enfleshed Counter-Memory
  Stephanie C. Edwards

  Inspired by Jessica Coblentz’s work on depression, Edwards expands her assessment of one mental health disorder into trauma studies and proposes a social ethic of “enfleshed counter-memory” in response.

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• Symposium
  January 02, 2025 EDT
  Investigating Moral Injury: Thinking Beyond the Law-Conscience Binary
  Catherine Yanko

  Using Jessica Coblentz’s narrative-phenomenological theological framework in Dust in the Blood, this article confronts impasses in and proposes a way beyond intractable debates about the moral authority of conscience.

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• CTEWC Book Series
  September 26, 2024 EDT
  Catholic Health Care and Reproductive Justice: Whose Conscience Has Priority When Conscience Claims Collide?
  Emily Reimer-Barry

  When faced with competing conscience claims regarding standard medical services, the patient’s conscience should be prioritized, even as we lament the moral injury that sometimes results for providers.

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• CTEWC Book Series
  May 19, 2024 EDT
  El abuso sexual clerical como daño moral: hacer frente a una Iglesia herida e hiriente
  Marcus Mescher

  Este capítulo explica cómo el abuso sexual del clero y su ocultamiento causaron daño moral a los individuos, las relaciones y la iglesia institucional, y varias estrategias para la curación.

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• CTEWC Book Series
  March 16, 2023 EDT
  Clergy Sexual Abuse as Moral Injury: Confronting a Wounded and Wounding Church
  Marcus Mescher

  This essay explains how clergy sexual abuse and its concealment caused moral injury to individuals, relationships, and the institutional church as well as several strategies to advance healing.

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• Book Review
  July 25, 2022 EDT
  Marc LiVecche, The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury
  Darren Cronshaw

  Review of Marc LiVecche, The Good Kill: Just War and Moral Injury

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• Article
  June 17, 2020 EDT
  The Moral Impact of Digital Devices
  Marcus Mescher

  This essay explores how digital tools and networks deform human identity, character, agency, relationships, and society by enabling vicious dispositions and habits as well as normalizing sinful actions and systems.

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