TIME, (COM)PASSION, AND ETHICAL SELF‐FORMATION IN EVANGELICAL HUMANITARIANISM. Issue 4 (27th December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Henquinet, Kari B.
• Is Part Of: Journal of religious ethics. Volume 48:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 596
• Page End: 619
• Publication Date: 2020-12-27
• Subjects: Evangelicalism -- humanitarianism -- anthropology -- ethics -- foreign aid -- time -- compassion -- passion; Ethics -- Periodicals; Religious ethics -- Periodicals; Morale religieuse; Religion; Théologie; 205
• DOI: 10.1111/jore.12334
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0384-9694

Abstract

Abstract: This article examines narratives, images, and stories that give insight to everyday experimentation and ethical self‐formation. I use the case of World Vision and its early leaders to unpack genealogies of American evangelical humanitarianism. Rather than seeking to identify American evangelicalism's normative ethical stance, I aim to expand the discussion in anthropology of ethics on ethical self‐formation through examining the tensions, reflections, and processes of becoming among evangelical humanitarians. In doing so, I examine two focal areas of ethical self‐formation among early World Vision leaders. The first is oscillation between and mixing of passion and compassion frameworks in the American evangelical imagination. Second, I identify a range of temporal frames that evangelicals draw on to make sense of and formulate ethical responses to human needs encountered abroad.