Changing the Questions: Explorations in Christian Ethics

by Margaret Farley, Jamie L. Manson

Overview

This introduction to and an overview of the work of Margaret Farley, one of the church’s leading ethicists will be a valuable resource for students of public ethics, sexual ethics, and the ethics of relationships. Essays from throughout Farley’s long scholarly career, both published and unpublished, focus on the intersection of ethics and public life. Changing the Questions also includes Farley’s sermons as well as her essays on ecclesiology and feminism, making it a far-ranging summary of her interests and contributions to theology over the past four decades.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608335558
Publisher:	Orbis
Publication date:	03/01/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	226,116
File size:	727 KB

Table of Contents

Introduction Jamie L. Manson ix

1 New Patterns of Relationship: Beginnings of a Moral Revolution 1

2 Fragments for an Ethic of Commitment in Thomas Aquinas 24

3 The Role of Experience in Moral Discernment 47

4 Moral Discourse in the Public Arena 69

5 Feminism and Universal Morality 88

6 Feminism and Hope 112

7 A Feminist Version of Respect for Persons 125

8 How Shall We Love in a Postmodern World? 143

9 Ethics, Ecclesiology, and the Grace of Self-Doubt 161

10 No One Goes Away Hungry from the Table of the Lord: Eucharistic Sharing in Ecumenical Contexts 182

11 Sermons on the Themes of Holy Week 196 Dignity and Humiliation: Palm Sunday 196

Weep for Yourselves and for Your Children 203

The Cup of Suffering and of Lone: Reflections for Holy Week 210

Easter Rejoicing and the Discipline of Nonfulfillment 216

12 Celibacy under the Sign of the Cross 222

13 Prophetic Discourse in a Time of AIDS 241

14 Religious Meanings for Nature and Humanity 254

15 Death Be Not Proud: Freedom and Death in Relation to Life 265

16 Death Be Not Humble: Freedom and Life in Relation to Death 277

17 Stem Cell Research: Religious Considerations 297

18 Forgiveness in the Service of justice and Love 319

Index 343