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Dr. Margaret Farley, R.S.M. Engages with the Question: Does Yale Provide an Interesting Context for Ethical Studies?
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Interview Date
9-3-1999
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Abstract
Does Yale provide an interesting context for ethical studies?
Dr. Margaret Farley discusses her time at Yale Divinity School. She describes the environment as diverse in both students and faculty with differing approaches to study and work. She also identifies students at Yale as not just academic theologians, but believers, searching for answers with faculty who believe as well.
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Margaret Farley and Alfred Benney. "Dr. Margaret Farley, R.S.M. Engages with the Question: Does Yale Provide an Interesting Context for Ethical Studies?" (1999) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alfred_benney/207/
Playing Time: 2:44 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.