Lisa Sowle Cahill

EDUCATION
A.B., University of Santa Clara
A.M., Ph.D., University of Chicago

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Lisa Sowle Cahill grew up primarily in northern Virginia, was educated in California and Chicago, and has taught at Boston College since 1976. She has also been a visiting professor at Georgetown and Yale Universities. She and her husband Larry are the parents of five children.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
History of Christian ethics; New Testament and ethics; Catholic social ethics; feminist theology and sex and gender ethics; bioethics; ethics of war and peace.

TEACHING
Western Cultural Tradition I, II, III, IV (undergraduate Honors Program)
Christian Ethics: Major Figures
Christian Ethics: Contemporary Figures
Christian Perspectives on Bioethics
Ethics of Sex and Gender
Christology and Ethics

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS
Past President of the Catholic Theological Society of America (l992-93).
Past President of the Society of Christian Ethics (l997-98).
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Alumna of the Year, University of Chicago Divinity School, 1999.
Eight honorary degrees.
Catholic Common Ground Initiative, Steering Committee, 1998-present

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
'Love Your Enemies:' Discipleship, Pacifism and Just War Theory (Fortress, 1994); Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 1996); Family: A Christian Social Perspective (Fortress, 2000); Bioethics and the Common Good (Marquette Univ. Press, 2003); Theological Bioethics: Participation, Justice and Change (Georgetown Univ. Press, 2005); Genetics, Theology, Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Conversation(Crossroad, 2005).

PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2002
BOOKS:
Bioethics and the Common Good  (Marquette University Press, 2004).

Genetics, Theology, Ethics:  An Interdisciplinary Conversation, edited (Crossroad, 2005).

Modern Catholic Social Teaching:  Commentaries and Interpretations, ed. Kenneth R. Himes, with Lisa Sowle Cahill, Charles E. Curran, David Hollenbach, and Thomas Shannon, associate  eds. (Washington, D.C.:  Georgetown University Press, 2005).

Theological  Bioethics: Participation, Justice, and Change (Georgetown University Press, 2005).  Winner of the Catholic Press Association First Place Award for Theology, 2005

Sexuality and the U.S. Catholic Church:  Crisis and Renewal, ed. with John Garvey and T. Frank Kennedy (Crossroad, 2006).

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS:

“Toward Global Ethics,” Theological Studies 63/2 (2002).  This was published in Japanese in Shingaku Digest 96 (2004) 23-45.

“The Danger of Violence and the Call to Peace,” in Strike Terror No More, ed. John Berquist (Chalice Press, 2002).

“Sexual Ethics,” in A Call to Fidelity:  On the Moral Theology of Charles E. Curran, ed. James Walter, Timothy O’Connell, and Thomas A. Shannon (Georgetown University Press, 2002) 113-133.

“Genetics, Ethics and Feminist Theology:  Some Recent Directions,” J. of Feminist Studies in Religion 18/2 (Fall 2002).

“Marriage:  Developments in Catholic Theology and Ethics, “Theological Studies  64: 78-105 (2003).

“Just Peacemaking:  Theory, Practice, and Prospects,” The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 22 (2003).

“Bioethics, Theology, and Social Change,” Journal of Religious Ethics 31/3 (2003): 363-398. 

“Biotech and Justice:  Catching Up with the Real World Order,” Hastings Center Report 34/4 (2003) 33-44.

“Hacia una Etica Global,” Selecciones de Teologia 168/42 (2003) 343-354. (Summary translation of a 2002 article in Theological Studies.)  The original article was also reprinted in Japanese.

“Richard McCormick and the Dilemma of Modern Medicine,” The Story of Bioethics: From Seminal Works to Contemporary Explorations, Eran Klein and Jennifer Walter, eds., (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003) 131-148.

“Feminist Theology, Catholicism, and the Family,” Full of Hope:  Critical Social Perspectives on Theology, ed. Magdala Thompson (New York/Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2003) 94-111.

“Women’s Health and Human Flourishing,” Women’s Health Issues, ed. Elio Sgreccia (Rome:  Societa Editrice Universo, 2003) 93-103.

“Paternidade/maternidade em perspectiva,” Bioetica:  Poder e Injustica, ed. Volnei Garrafa and Leo Pessini (Sao Paulo:  Sociedade Brasileira de Bioetica, Centro Universitario Sao Camilo, Edicoes Loyola, 2003) 379-385.

“On Being a Catholic Feminist,” Santa Clara Lecture 9/3 (2003) (published by Bannan Center for Jesuit Education, Santa Clara University). (A selection was published in Santa Clara Magazine, Fall 2004.)

“The Council as Seen from a Catholic Girls’ School,” Vatican II:  Forty Personal Stories, William Madges and Michael J. Daley, eds. (Mystic CT:  Twenty-Third  Publications, 2003)22-24.

“Feminist Theology, Catholicism, and the Family,” in Full of Hope: Critical Social Perspectives on Theology, ed. Magdala Thompson (NY/Mahwah NJ:  Paulist Press, 2003).

“Christology, Ethics, and Spirituality,” in Thinking of Christ:  Proclamation, Explanation, Meaning, Tatha Wiley, ed. (New York and London: Continuum, 2003).

“Stem Cells and Social Ethics:  Some Catholic Contributions,” Nancy Snow, ed., Stem Cell Research:  New Frontiers in Science and Ethics (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2003).

“A ‘Mother of Sons’ in Israel and in Matthew’s Jewish-Christian Community,” in Jacob Neusner, ed., When Judaism and Christianity Began:  Essays in Memory of

Anthony J. Saldarini (Brill/Leiden, 2004).

“Realigning Catholic Priorities:  Bioethics and the Common Good,” America, September 13, 11-13 (2004).

“Nature, Sin, and Society,” in Is Human Nature Obsolete? Genetics, Bioengineering, and the Future of the Human Condition, ed. Harold Baillie and Timothy Casey (MIT Press, 2004) 339-65.

“The Global Common Good in the Twenty-First Century,” in Moral Theology: New Directions and Fundamental Issues, ed. James Keating (Paulist Press, 2004) 233-51.

“Equality in Marriage; The Biblical Challenge,” in Todd A. Salzman, Thomas M. Kelly, and John J. O’Keefe, eds., Marriage in the Catholic Tradition: Scripture, Tradition, and Experience (Crossroad, 2004) 66-75.

“Catholicism, Death and Modern Medicine,” America, April 25, 2005.

“Familiaris Consortio," in Commentary on Catholic Social Teaching, ed. Kenneth Himes, OFM (Georgetown University Press, 2005).

“Creation and Ethics,” Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics, ed. Gilbert Meilaender and William Werpehowski (Oxford University Press, 2005).

“Globalization and the Common Good,” in Globalization and Catholic Social Thought:  Present Crisis, Future Hope, ed. John A. Coleman and William A. Ryan (Ottawa:  Novalis Press, 2005)).

“Philosophy and Religion:  Do Activists for Women’s Health Need Them?,” for Globalization, Women and Health in the 21^st Century, ed. Ilona Kickbusch, Kari A. Hartwig, and Justin M. List (New York and Hampshire, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

“Adoption:  A Roman Catholic Perspective,” for The Morality of Adoption,  ed. Timothy P. Jackson (Eerdmans, 2005).

“Comment:  Just War Theory, Pacifism and Politics,” Journal of Religious Ethics 33/4 (2005).

*“Cloning Promises, Profits, and Privilege,” Christian Reflection:  A Series in Faith and Ethics 16 (2005)

“Moral Notes 2006:  Bioethics,” Theological Studies 67/1 (2006).

“Embodying God’s Image:  Created, Broken, and Redeemed,” 2003 Sharpe Lecture, University of Chicago Divinity School, in Humanity before God:  Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Ethics, ed., William Schweiker, Michael Johnson and Kevin Jung (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2006).

“Foreword” for Richard A. McCormick, The Critical Calling:  Reflections on Moral Dilemmas Since Vatican II, 2^nd ed. (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2006).

“Justice for Women:  Martha Nussbaum and Catholic Social Teaching,” in Transforming Unjust Structures:  The Capability Approach, ed. Severine Deneulin, Mathias Nebel and Nicholas Sagovsky (Dordrecht, The Netherlands:  Springer, 2006).

“Bioethics, Relationships, and Participation in the Common Good,” in Carol Taylor and Roberto Dell’Oro, eds., Health and Human Flourishing:  Religion, Medicine and Moral Anthropology(Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2006).

“Theology’s Role in Public Bioethics,” in Handbook of Bioethics and Religion, ed. David E. Guinn (Oxford and new York:  Oxford University Press, 2006). 

In Press:

“Feminist Theology and Sexual Ethics,” in Maura Ryan and Brian Linnane, eds., A Just and True Love:  Essays in Honor of Margaret Farley (Continuum).

“The Ethics of Genetic Enhancement,” for Human Germline Modification, ed. Ron Cole Turner.

“Just Peacemaking:  A Response,” Christian Century.

Concluding essay for a volume on ‘The Signs of the Times’ and Catholic Social Teaching, ed. Johan Verstraeten (Orbis and Novalis).

“Aging, Genetics, and Social Justice,” with Sarah Moses, for Aging, Genetic Technology and the Future, eds. Catherine Read, Robert Green, and Michael Smyer

“L’impact des courants communautariens sur le renouveau de la théologie morale aux USA,’ for a special issue of the journal Rev.Sci.Rel., on “La morale chrétienne au défi des communautés.”