Dr. Jame Schaefer
Dr. Jame Schaefer
Associate 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 environmental ethics.

Her theological publications include Theological Foundations for Environmental Ethics: Reconstructing Patristic and Medieval Concepts (Georgetown University Press, 2009), articles in Cistercian Studies Quarterly, Theological Studies, and Worldviews: Religion, Culture, Science, all of which explore promising concepts and models in the Catholic tradition for addressing ecological degradation.  She worked with faculty of other disciplines to develop the Interdisciplinary Minor in Environmental Ethics for which she serves as Director, and she co-advises Marquette Students for an Environmentally Active Campus (SEAC).  She involves faculty from various natural and human sciences in her courses, team-teaches with Physics an occasionally offered course on the origin and nature of the universe, and co-steers the Albertus Magnus Circle, an interdisciplinary faculty discussion group on issues that interface religion and science.  For her interdisciplinary efforts, she received a Religion and Science Course Award from the Templeton Foundation and a Quality and Excellence in Teaching Science and Religion Award from the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.

She convenes the Catholic Theology and Global Warming Interest Group of the Catholic Theological Society of America and maintains membership in the American Academy of Religion, the College Theology Society, the Society for Christian Ethics, the International Society for Environmental Ethics, the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, the Society for Spirituality, Theology and Health, and the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences.  In progress are a monograph exploring the contributions that diverse disciplines make toward understanding the human person, articles reconstructing the doctrine of God's omnipotence and theological sources for coping positively with physical illness and death, an essay on selected principles of Catholic Social Teaching to address human-forced climate change, and an anthology on the Catholic theological responses to climate change phenomena.

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