Assistant
Professor
Jame
Schaefer (Ph.D.,
Marquette University [1994]),
[Systematics/Ethics], focuses on the constructive
relationship between theology and the natural sciences with
special attention to religious foundations for ecological
ethics. Her theological publications include articles in
Cistercian Studies Quarterly, Theological Studies, and
Worldviews: Religion, Culture, Science, all of
which explore promising notions in the Christian tradition for
addressing ecological degradation, and an essay in an anthology
for journalists aimed at enabling their constructive reporting
on issues that interface monotheistic religions and
science. She worked with faculty in other disciplines to
develop the Interdisciplinary Minor in Environmental Ethics for
which she served as Director during the 2001-2003 academic
years. She involves faculty from various natural sciences in
her courses, team-teaches with Physics faculty an occasionally
offered course on the origins of the universe, and co-steers the
Albertus Magnus Circle, an interdisciplinary faculty discussion
group on issues that interface religion and science. For her
efforts, she received a Religion and Science Course Award from
the Templeton Foundation in 1996 and a Quality and Excellence in
Teaching Science and Religion Award from the Center for Theology
and the Natural Sciences in 1998. She is the Convenor of the
Theology and Ecology Group of the Catholic Theological Society
of America and a member of the American Academy of Religion, the
College Theology Society, the Society for Christian Ethics, and
the International Society for Environmental Ethics. In progress
are more articles exploring Christian notions for responding to
ecological concerns, an anthology for Catholic University of
America Press entitled Theocentric Foundations for
Environmental Ethics: Promising Patristic and Medieval Sources,
and an essay on a method for reformulating doctrines of God and
the human person informed by contemporary scientific findings.
- Theology and the Natural Sciences
- Religions Foundations for Environmental Ethics
- MW 12-12:50 and by appointment
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Theo 001: Introduction to Theology
- Theo 170: Theology
and the Natural Sciences
