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Scripture & a Just Sexual Ethic
 - Many people today write off religion, or at least Christianity, as anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-trans, and regressive in its sexual teachings. It strikes many as hypocritical for churches like the Catholic Church to espouse strict sexual teachings given their own sordid history with sexual abuse by clergy and the cover up by bishops. But as we have seen throughout the course, there are Christian feminist theologians, as well as queer and trans Christian biblical scholars, who work within the tradition to reconstruct its ethical system.
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- We will all read queer scholar Dale Martin's conclusion about how he reads these biblical traditions as a Christian. Our leaders will also read Margaret Farley—a Christian feminist, an ethicist, and a religious Sister of Mercy. She offers a different basis from within the tradition for a sexual ethic premised on whether one's love is just, rather than whether it's straight.
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- Assigned Readings
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- Secondary:
- Dale Martin, Sex and the Single Savior, 161-85
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- Margaret Farley, "Framework for a Sexual Ethic: Just Sex," in Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, 207-244 (Camino)
- Writing Focus:
- Academic writing doesn't mean setting aside your own voice (They Say/I Say 117-30)
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- Seminar Leadership Summary and Questions
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- Slides for Lecture
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- Today's Authors
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Dale Martin is Professor Emeritus at the Henry Koerner Center for Emeritus Faculty at Yale University, having taught there and at Rhodes College and Duke University. He has published widely on slavery in early Christianity, gender and sexuality issues, and biblical interpretation more broadly. |
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Margaret A. Farley is Gilbert L. Stark Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics at Yale University. She has authored or co-edited seven books and written over 100 articles or chapters on medical and sexual ethics. Other books related to issues of sexuality are Personal Commitments: Beginning, Keeping, Changing (Orbis, rev. ed. 2013) and Compassionate Respect: A Feminist Approach to Medical Ethics and Other Questions (Paulist, 2003).She has received eleven honorary degress, and her book, Just Love, received the 2008 Grawemeyer Award in Religion. |
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- Further Reading
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- Cornwall, Susannah. Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ: Intersex Conditions and Christian Theology, Gender, Theology and Spirituality. New York: Routledge, 2014.
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- Dunning, Benjamin H., ed. The Oxford Handbook of New Testament, Gender, and Sexuality, Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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- Farley, Margaret A. Compassionate Respect: A Feminist Approach to Medical Ethics and Other Questions x: Paulist, 2003.
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- --------. Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics. New York: Continuum, 2006.
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- --------. Personal Commitments: Beginning, Keeping, Changing. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986. (There is a revised edition published by Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2013.)
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- Salzman, Todd A. and Michael G. Lawler. Sexual Ethics: A Theological Introduction. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2012.
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- --------. The Sexual Person: Toward a Renewed Catholic Anthropology, Moral Traditions. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2008.
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- Scholz, Susanne. The Bible as Political Artifact: On the Feminist Study of the Hebrew Bible. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2017.
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- --------. Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect, 3 vols., Recent Research in Biblical Studies 5, 8, 9. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2017.
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- Acknowledgements
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- Image: Quote from Susan Haarman, Associate Director of Service Learning, Center for Experiential Learning, Loyola University of Chicago, reflecting on a visit to El Salvador. Graphic posted on Ignatian Solidarity Network blog, online, https://ignatiansolidarity.net/blog/2018/04/11/susan-haarman/, accessed 25 January 2020.
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