TMCE7300 · Theology and Ministry

Gender, Race, and Ethics

Clough School of Theology and Ministry

This course asks how critical reflection on gender and race challenges and may improve Christian conversations about God, faith, moral agency and obligation, culture, and social issues. It will begin by introducing students to feminist ethics, and to a range of methods and concerns that theologians and ethicists in conversation with this literature have addressed. It will then introduce students to the concerns and methods of womanist theologians and other scholars who complement this critical attention to gender with attention to race and ethnicity, as well as other aspects of personhood and social location. It will pay particular attention throughout to the varying conceptions of moral agency, moral obligation, and justice that are proposed by these literatures.