TM 560 Critical Contemporary Ethical Issues (Spring: 3)
Offered Periodically
This is the introductory course in moral theology for all degree programs,
except the M.Div.
This course considers critical contemporary issues from Catholic, interdenominational,
interfaith, international, and cross-cultural perspectives. Attention will
be given to the Wesleyan Quadrilateral (scripture, tradition, reason, and
experience) and casuistry to ground a common approach in the examination
and interrogation of the issues to be addressed. The principal ethical issues
to be studied include: economic justice (access to health and human services),
sexual ethics (just love, sexual identity, misogyny, pedophilia, and reproduction),
respect life (abortion, euthanasia, hyper-incarceration and capital punishment),
fanaticism and religious fundamentalism, environmental degradation and human
ecology (¿natural¿ disasters), and the toll of a perpetual state of war.
Mary Jo Iozzio
Last Updated: 17-JUN-13