Reimagining Catholic Ethics Today

Dear Colleagues,

As our world continues to embody diverse expressions of globality, ethical discourses cannot be framed anymore in monologic terms. Consequently, Catholic ethics, understood as a pathway for addressing the multiple contextual realities defining both human and non-human worlds, has become a necessary tool for negotiating the meanings and praxes of the good life.

This Special Issue seeks to address the following questions: How can Catholic ethics be reimagined today in such a manner that it speaks to the realities defining the world that humans and non-humans call their home? How can the reimagination of Catholic ethics allow for new ways of being that promote the common good? What methodologies and praxes are relevant today after a careful pneumatological reading of the signs of the times?

To properly address these questions, pneumatologically reading the signs of the times calls for an embrace of such methodologies and praxes that take deep listening seriously, as well as discernment and critical analyses, providing a pragmatic turn towards both the familiar and unfamiliar, which play out in different contexts. In fact, all the above lead to an ethnographic query of the socio-political, cultural, philosophical, religious, theological, linguistic, and hermeneutic factors shaping the contemporary world both in particular localities and in the global context.

This series is intentionally expanding the focus to include ecumenical and interfaith perspectives (religious and secular). It seeks to make the case that catholicity, which is inherent in Catholic ethics, ought to be grounded in an embrace of radical inclusivity when exploring the signs of the times as a tool for articulating a better world for all. This deliberate preference for inclusivity is in fidelity to the fact that ethical questions and responses to them always play out within spaces of interconnectedness, whether one is conscious of such connections or not.

We request that prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 400–600 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the guest editor (send to both emails: aihiokhais@yahoo.co.uk; aihiokha@up.edu) or to the /Religions/editorial office (religions@mdpi.com). Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editor for the purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer-review.

Dr. SimonMary Asese A. Aihiokhai
Guest Editor

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• common good
• colonialities and decoloniality
• ethics
• environmental ethics
• ethical imagination
• existentialism
• gender and sexuality
• hermeneutics and politics of language
• humanism
• posthumanism
• religious ethics
• social ethics