TM 560 Critical Contemporary Ethical Issues: Cultivating the Common Ground (Spring: 3)
Offered Periodically
This is the introductory course in moral theology for all degree programs,
except the M.Div.
This Level One course considers contested ethical issues from Catholic,
ecumenical and cross-cultural perspectives seeking to foster development
of a common ground approach that transcends the religious, cultural, political
and ideological divisions that often mark these debates. The course employs
the "Moral Triangle" method of analysis which probes the debates in terms
of Issues (including assumptions and morally relevant features), Judgments
(including truth claims and moral principles) Applications (including goals
and strategies). Issues treated come biomedical ethics (including genetics
and end-of-life issues), sexual ethics (including gender and reproductive
issues), abortion, Scripture and ethics, faith and politics, inculturation
and cross-cultural ethics.
Mary Jo Iozzio
Last Updated: 24-APR-13