Moral Theology and Christian Ethics
Moral theology focuses on the key elements of the human response to the Christian revelation. It is studied in conversation with Scripture and tradition, as well as with other disciplines such as philosophy, politics, law, and medicine, and other religious traditions, such as Judaism and Islam. Students at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) may focus their research on methodological questions (for example, the nature of human action, virtue, happiness) or on a particular area (for example, social, political, environmental, comparative, biomedical, sexual or familial ethics). Nonetheless, any specialization in moral theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (DSPT) imparts an overall understanding of the Catholic moral tradition, particularly the tradition of the virtues stemming from Aquinas, including its sources, historical development, and contemporary expressions and debates.
"The great institutions of St. Thomas' morality are the best instrument of critical dialogue with modernity. The theory of virtue will stimulate a renewal of moral theology and the teaching of moral theology stemming from the great institutions of Thomism, still has a luminous future before it."
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Archbishop Bruguès (as quoted in "Vatican Official Considers Aquinas' Comeback" by Antonio Gaspari, 3 December 2008)
Regular Faculty:
Marianne Farina, CSC – Catholic moral theology, philosophical ethics,
Islamic ethics, Christian and Islamic spirituality
Edward Krasevac, OP – Catholic moral theology, Catholic sexual ethics,
systematic theology, Christology
Selected GTU Faculty:
Lisa Fullam (JSTB) - Moral theology, virtue ethics, Ignatian spirituality,
sexual ethics, medical and bioethics
Richard M. Gula, SS (FST) - Fundamental moral theology, medical
ethics
Carol S. Robb (SFTS) - Environmental ethics, feminist ethics, theories of
justice and economic ethics, methods in ethics
Martha Ellen Stortz (PLTS) - Christian practices, vision and the moral
life, scripture and ethics, spirituality and ethics
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