Lisa Sowle Cahill
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Lisa Sowle Cahill is an American ethicist, and J. Donald Monan Professor at
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. She first became known in the 1980s with her studies on gender and sexual ethics, but now she has extended her work to social and global ethics. Lisa Sowle Cahill's work focuses on an attempt to discuss the complexity of moral issues while lowering tensions about theological disagreements between the Church and society.


Education

In 1970, Cahill received a B.A. in theology from
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. She then went on to receive her M.A. and Ph.D. from the
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. She completed her dissertation in 1976 under the guidance of James Gustafson. James Gustafson introduced her to Richard McCormick SJ and Father Charles Curran, both of whom have influenced her own career in moral theology. She has taught at
Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...
since 1976 and has been a visiting scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, and a visiting professor of Catholic theology at Yale University.


Career

Sometimes called a feminist theologian and sometimes a bioethicist, Cahill has published over two hundred articles and has worked on as many as fifteen books. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2008 she was awarded the
John Courtney Murray Award The John Courtney Murray Award is the highest honor bestowed by the Catholic Theological Society of America, named after John Courtney Murray, the great American theologian known for his work on religious liberty. Winners * 2021: Susan K. Wood, S ...
by the Catholic Theological Society of America.


Works

* ''Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics'', Cambridge University Press, 2013 * ''Bioethics and the Common Good,'' Marquette University Press, 2005 * ''Genetics, Theology, Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Conversation'', Crossroad Publishing Company, 2005 * * * ''Family: a Christian social perspective'', Fortress Press, 2000, * * *'Just Love,' Reviewed. https://www.americamagazine.org/issue/100/just-love-reviewed October 7, 2012, America Magazine


References

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