Margaret A. Farley

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Margaret A. Farley RSM (born April 15, 1935 ) is an American Catholic religious sister, theologian , author and professor of Christian ethics at Yale University .

Live and act

Farley studied Catholic theology . She taught Christian ethics at Yale University and was the first Catholic woman in her subject at Yale Divinity School . Farley is a member of the Catholic Order of the Sisters of Mercy . In 1984 she signed the appeal A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion as one of 97 theologians .

In 2008 she published the book Just Love. A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics (German: Damned Sex. For a new Christian sexual morality ). In her book she presents the development and history of sexual ethics with an emphasis on Christianity. The Bible, tradition, science and experience apply to them as norms that are still relevant today and that have to be interpreted. She therefore advocates an ethics based on justice and love, in which integrity, consensuality, reciprocity, equality, commitment, fertility and social justice are the essential criteria and cornerstones for sexuality. She also tries to explain why sexual morality , masturbation and homosexuality raise comparatively “little moral questions”, provided they are lived responsibly.

In a notification dated March 30, 2012 and published June 4, 2012, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith sharply criticized its book. Farley lacks a proper understanding of the role of the Magisterium of the Church as the teaching authority of the bishops united with the Successor of Peter, and has an inadequate understanding of the objective nature of the natural law . The book should not be used as a permissible exposition of Catholic doctrine , neither in counseling, nor in training, nor in ecumenical dialogue .

Prizes and awards (selection)

  • Grawemeyer Award , 2008
  • John Courtney Murray Award from the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA)

Works (selection)

  • A study in the ethics of commitment within the context of theories of human love and temporality . 1973
  • Homosexuality: problematic practice or legitimate lifestyle . 1981 (in collaboration with James E. Dittes and William Muehl )
  • Issues in contemporary Christian ethics: the choice of death in a medical context . 1995
  • Feminist ethics and the Catholic moral tradition . 1996
  • Compassionate respect: a feminist approach to medical ethics and other questions . 2002
  • A just & true love: feminism at the frontiers of theological ethics . 2007, Essays in Honor of Margaret A. Farley
  • Liberating eschatology: Essays in honor of Letty M. Russell
  • Just love. A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics , 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yale University: Ethicist Margaret Farley Hailed as Mentor by Friends, Colleagues and Students ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.yale.edu
  2. ^ Rosemary Skinner Keller, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Marie Cantlon: Encyclopedia of women and religion in North America . Indiana University Press, 2006, pp. 1104-1106, ISBN 0-253-34688-6
  3. ^ Margaret A. Farley: Just Love. A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics . 2008
  4. ↑ Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: Notification to the book Just Love. A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics by Sr. Margaret A. Farley RSM (German translation)
  5. ↑ Worldcat: Farley, Margret A.
personal data
SURNAME Farley, Margaret A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Catholic theologian and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1935