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Resisting dominant contemporary conceptions of conscience as either the infallible voice of God within or the internalization of communal norms, Jeff Morgan retrieves from Kant and Kierkegaard a fresh notion of conscience as the site of personal accountability to God. However critical the role of the community is in mediating God's presence, personal accountability to God may never be collapsed into accountability to the church or any other community. Morgan's study offers a vital reminder that the pathologies of the modern self-asserting subject cannot be healed through fideistic recourse to communal authority. * Jennifer A. Herdt, Yale Divinity School, USA * This lucid and thought-provoking study rehabilitates a conception of conscience that should never have been dismissed and shows why its recovery is vital to the moral life and the life of faith. The splendid readings of Kant and Kierkegaard, the incisive criticisms of their detractors, and the patient yet insistent case for the necessity of conscientious self-examination before God make this a compelling read. If we are now witnessing a recovery of conscience as a central topic in theological ethics, this book is poised to lead the way. I wholeheartedly (and conscientiously!) recommend it. * Gerald McKenny, University of Notre Dame, USA *

I welcome and would like to commend this contribution. There is much in Jeff Morgan's book to appreciate ... The book will appeal and is accessible to scholars and lay-readers alike. * Studies in Christian Ethics * Resisting dominant contemporary conceptions of conscience as either the infallible voice of God within or the internalization of communal norms, Jeff Morgan retrieves from Kant and Kierkegaard a fresh notion of conscience as the site of personal accountability to God. However critical the role of the community is in mediating God's presence, personal accountability to God may never be collapsed into accountability to the church or any other community. Morgan's study offers a vital reminder that the pathologies of the modern self-asserting subject cannot be healed through fideistic recourse to communal authority. * Jennifer A. Herdt, Yale Divinity School, USA * This lucid and thought-provoking study rehabilitates a conception of conscience that should never have been dismissed and shows why its recovery is vital to the moral life and the life of faith. The splendid readings of Kant and Kierkegaard, the incisive criticisms of their detractors, and the patient yet insistent case for the necessity of conscientious self-examination before God make this a compelling read. If we are now witnessing a recovery of conscience as a central topic in theological ethics, this book is poised to lead the way. I wholeheartedly (and conscientiously!) recommend it. * Gerald McKenny, University of Notre Dame, USA *

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Jeff Morgan is Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine, USA.

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