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Dr. Margaret Farley, R.S.M. Engages with the Question: What is the Greatest Concern of Your Work?
Document Type
Video
Interview Date
9-3-1999
Abstract
What is the greatest concern of your work?
Dr. Margaret Farley discusses the profile of a Catholic theologian, and her concern that these theologians should not be afraid to speak the truth. She comments on the need for dialogue between the Church and the modern world because the Church’s Hierarchy does not have the proper response to all problems of the modern world.
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Farley, Margaret R.S.M. and Benney, Alfred. Created by Alfred Benney. "Dr. Margaret Farley, R.S.M. Engages with the Question: What is the Greatest Concern of Your Work?" September 1999. DigitalCommons@Fairfield. Web. https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/asrvideos/128
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Playing Time: 4:47 minutes
About the Interviewee:
Dr. Margaret Farley, R.S.M., is the Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics at Yale Divinity School. She has been honored with eleven honorary degrees, the John Courtney Murray Award for Excellence in Theology and is past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. She has written several books and over eighty scholarly articles including Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics.
About the Interviewer:
Dr. Alfred Benney is a professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University. He has a Ph.D in Theology from the Hartford Seminary Foundation and teaches courses in Non-Traditional American Religions and Christian Religious Thought. His research interests include "how people learn"; "the appropriate use of technology in teaching/learning" and "myth as explanatory narrative". He has published work on teaching with technology.