Just and True Love: Feminism at the Frontiers of Theological Ethics: Essays in Honor of Margaret Farley / Edition 1

by Maura A. Ryan, Brian Linnane, Francine Cardman

Overview

This interdisciplinary and ecumenical collection of essays honors the transformative work of Margaret A. Farley, Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics at Yale Divinity School, by using it as a starting point for reflection on the contribution of feminist method to theology and ethics. Through a variety of perspectives, contributors show that by resisting classical oppositions between “interpersonal” and “social” ethics and by insisting that social, economic, and political realities be taken seriously in considerations of justice, feminist concerns challenge the very categories of Christian ethics.

With essays ranging from sexual ethics to human rights, medical ethics to freedom, A Just and True Love offers a broad perspective on the last twenty-five years of feminist innovation in Christian ethics and a glimpse of its global future, particularly in continents such as Africa.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780268040253
Publisher:	University of Notre Dame Press
Publication date:	01/15/2008
Edition description:	1
Pages:	534
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.19(d)

About the Author

Maura A. Ryan is associate professor of Christian ethics at the University of Notre Dame.

Brian F. Linnane, S.J., is president of Loyola College in Maryland.

Table of Contents

Foreword   Francine Cardman     ix
Acknowledgments     xv
Introduction   Maura A. Ryan     1
Freedom-in-relation: Autonomy, Relationality, Solidarity
Introduction     18
Feminist Theology and Sexual Ethics   Lisa Sowle Cahill     20
Human Rights and Women's Rights: Initiatives and Interventions in the Name of Universality   David Hollenbach, S.J.     47
Transnational Feminism and the Rhetoric of Religion   Serene Jones     75
Postcolonial Challenges and the Practice of Hospitality   Letty M. Russell     109
A Just and True Love
Introduction     134
Self and Other in a Theological Framework   Gene Outka     135
Justice and Love Shall Kiss   Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz     163
Mouth to Mouth, Person to Person   Ronald R. Garet     197
The Meaning and Practice of Love
Introduction     232
Feminist Ethics and the Sexual Abuse of Children: Reading Christian Origins   Mary Rose D'Angelo     234
The Sexual Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church: Implications for Sexual Ethics   Brian F. Linnane, S.J.     273
"Framework for Love": Toward a Renewed Understanding of Christian Vocation   Anne E. Patrick,S.N.J.M.     303
Virtuous Decision Makers and Incompetent Patients: The Case of the Conjoined Twins   M. Cathleen Kaveny     338
Truth and Love in Ecclesial Community
Introduction     368
Contraceptive Use and the Authority of the Church: A Case Study on Natural Law and Moral Discernment   Jean Porter     369
The Second Great Argument about Freedom   Leslie Griffin     406
John Paul II's Understanding of the Church as Teacher of Truth about Humankind   Charles E. Curran     429
Neither Thick nor Thin: Politics and Polity in the Ethics of Margaret A. Farley   William O'Neill, S.J.     453
Selected Publications of Margaret A. Farley     480
Contributors     490
Index     492

Editorial Reviews

Margaret Farley’s students and colleagues honor her in this volume with their wide-ranging essays on feminist approaches to issues Margaret cares about: sexual abuse, contraception, hospitality, same-sex love, and more.” —WATERwheel

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