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Confronting Religious Judgmentalism

by Catherine M Wallace

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Cascade Books
  • 13.8 x 21.4 x 1.1 cm

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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 our sinfulness. God is compassion. We are cherished by God beyond our wildest imagining. We are called to radical hospitality, not to crass judgmentalism. So where does this religious judgmentalism come from? It is the heritage of medieval theocracy: a violent, vindictive God of command and control was far more useful politically than a God of compassion, hospitality, and forgiveness. It comes from literal-minded misreading of the story of Adam and Eve and the forbidden fruit, a story about shame, not disobedience. And it comes from political success in exploiting deep-seated liabilities in the American soul: we spend our lives trying to ""prove ourselves,"" a hopeless task. There's an alternative. In the Christian humanist tradition, authentic moral judgment is rooted in conscience as a creative process. Morality is an art demanding both rigorous consideration of the facts and thoughtful introspection. Conscience properly understood and thoughtfully practiced is an antidote to shame, incessant self-criticism, and chronic self-doubt. ""Dr. Wallace's work is engrossing and readable. In my role as a therapist, I find her arguments about shame on target. The breadth and depth of knowledge expressed in her book are the culmination of decades of scholarly work overlaid by a life deeply lived."" --Zahava Springer Davidson, LCSW, NorthShore University HealthSystem Catherine Miles Wallace, PhD, is a cultural historian on the faculty of the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. She is the author of For Fidelity: How Intimacy and Commitment Enrich Our Lives (1998).
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  • Author

    Catherine M Wallace

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cascade Books

  • Published

    May 2016

  • Weight

    210g

  • Dimensions

    13.8 x 21.4 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781498228879

  • ISBN-10

    1498228879

  • Eden Code

    4920556

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