'With Prayer from Your Loving Father': Men, Masculinity, Faith and Care

Robb, Martin (2022). 'With Prayer from Your Loving Father': Men, Masculinity, Faith and Care. In: van Nistelrooij, Inge; Sander-Staudt, Maureen and Hamington, Maurice eds. Care Ethics, Religion, and Spiritual Traditions. Ethics of Care, 13. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, pp. 195–209.

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Abstract

This chapter draws on letters from the author's great grandfather to his grandfather during the First World War, exploring the ways in which the former's Christian faith informs his expression of fatherhood, to argue for a view of Christian masculinity compatible with care theory. Although there is a tendency in the care ethics literature to address care theory in the rational and analytic tradition of Western philosophy, the chapter argues that care needs an imaginative superstructure to inform and motivate it, and that certain forms of religious belief are able to supply this.

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