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Join us for a casual and friendly reading group, exploring key ideas, questions, and debates in Christian sexual ethics.
This group is delivered in partnership with LGBT+ Catholics Westminster. It is open to anyone who is interested in deepening their understanding of sexual ethics.
Week 1
Margaret Farley – 'The Questions and Their Past', from Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics (2008)
Margaret Farley discusses the history of sexuality and the kinds of sexual ethics that emerged within it.
Week 2
Lisa Sowle Cahil – 'Current Teaching on Sexual Ethics', from Charles E. Curran and Richard A. McCormick (eds.) Readings in Moral Theology No. 8: Dialogue About Catholic Sexual Teaching (1993)
Lisa Cahill reflects on key developments in Catholic sexual ethics after the Second Vatican Council.
Week 3
Linn Marie Tonstad, 'Theology, Sexuality, and the Question of Queer', from Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics (2018)
Linn Tonstad seeks a more nourishing approach to LGBT+ issues than interminable apologetic debates, and finds it in queer theology.
Week 4
James Alison, 'Unbinding the Gay Conscience', from On Being Liked (2003)
James Alison asks what the freedom of the Gospel means for gay people.
Reading 1 - Farley, Just Love
Reading 2 - Cahill, Current Teaching
Dr Nicolete Burbach is the Social and Environmental Justice Lead at the London Jesuit Centre. Her PhD thesis looked at Pope Francis’ hermeneutics of uncertainty, and her research focuses on resourcing Pope Francis to think through issues of alienation and disagreement, with a particular focus on navigating the difficulties around trans inclusion in the Church. Previously, she has taught modules on postmodern theology and Catholic Social Teaching, both at Durham University.
