scholarly journals Trying Portia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Chillington Rutter
Keyword(s):  
Justice And Mercy

Extraordinary in itself, the 2016 performance of The Merchant in the Venetian Ghetto produced an equally extraordinary collateral performance. Staged in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, a ‘Mock Appeal in the Matter of Shylock v. Antonio’ was heard by a bench presided over by Ruth Bader Ginsberg. A curious aspect of the Appeal was that Portia made an appellee. This essay investigates the decision to try Portia. What cultural, political, religious needs were served by bringing Portia into court? Thinking about Justice and Mercy, law, bonds, and love, this essay asks: when the verdict was pronounced, was antisemitism recuperated by misogyny?

Peter Berglar on Justice and Mercy in Life and Work of Thomas More

Moreana ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 20 (Number 78) (2) ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
Geert van den Steenhoven
Keyword(s):  
Thomas More ◽  
Justice And Mercy

Saving the Nation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Chinese Society ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Social Christianity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Urban Elite ◽  
Justice And Mercy

This book is a history of the Chinese Protestant elite and their contribution to building a new China in the years from 1922 to 1952. While a small percentage of China’s overall population, China’s Protestants constituted a large and influential segment of the urban elite. They exercised that influence through their churches, hospitals, and schools, especially the universities, and also through institutions such as the YMCA and the YWCA, whose membership was drawn from the modern sectors of urban life. These Protestant elites believed that they could best contribute to the building of a new China through their message of social Christianity, believing that Christianity could help make Chinese society strong, modern, and prosperous, but also characterized by justice and mercy. More than preaching a message, the Protestant elite also played a critical social role, through their institutions, broadening the appeal and impact of social movements, and imparting to them a greater sense of legitimacy. This history begins with the elite’s participation in social reform campaigns in the early twentieth century, continues with their efforts in resisting imperialism, and ends with their support for the Communist-led social revolution.

Mercy Triumphs over Judgement: Intrusive or Enabling Mercy?

2020 ◽  
pp. 167-194
Author(s):  
Richard Bourne
Keyword(s):  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Moral Agency ◽  
Theological Anthropology ◽  
Character Formation ◽  
Moral Anthropology ◽  
Hard Treatment ◽  
Theological Critique ◽  
Justice And Mercy

This chapter engages in a philosophical and theological critique of thinkers who construe justice and mercy as contradictory norms. It develops a theological account of restorative justice in which mercy is understood as the ‘operative condition’ enabling the pursuit of justice beyond mere retribution. It elaborates this through an account of the moral anthropology inherent in Christian accounts of penance which understand moral agency as a time-bound pursuit of character-formation. Justice is pursued not in meting out a measure of proportionate hard-treatment, but in the merciful gift of the ‘penitential time’ which may enable reform of character and action. It ends with a tentative account of sanctification, desire and desistence and suggests these aspects of theological anthropology might inform a critique of the criminogenic machine of consumerism.

Justice and Mercy. Reinhold Niebuhr , Ursula M. Niebuhr

1976 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-124
Author(s):  
Franklin I. Gamwell
Keyword(s):  
Reinhold Niebuhr ◽  
Justice And Mercy
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