Beverly Wildung Harrison

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Beverly Wildung Harrison
Union Theological Seminary
ThesisH. Richard Niebuhr: Towards a Christian Moral Philosophy (1974)
Influences
Academic work
Discipline
Union Theological Seminary
Doctoral studentsRebecca Todd Peters[6]
Notable studentsKatie Cannon
Influenced

Beverly Jean Wildung Harrison (1932–2012) was an American

Union Theological Seminary in New York City
for 32 years.

Early life and education

Beverly Jean Wildung was born in

Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where she earned a Master of Religious Education degree and her Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1975.[10]

Career

After serving as an assistant campus chaplain at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1960s, she returned to Union Theological Seminary in 1966 to join the faculty as an instructor. She received tenure in 1980 and became the Caroline Williams Beaird Professor of Christian Ethics in 1986.[11]

While at Union, she authored and co-authored several influential works on feminist Christian ethics. Her lectures on "The Power of Anger in the Work of Love" and "The Role of Social Theory in Religious Ethics" were distributed widely among students and faculty, before being added to a published collection of essays, called Making the Connections: Essays in Feminist Social Ethics (1985), which has been called "one of the best books ever published in feminist religious thought."[12][13][14]

Her first published book Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion (1983),[15] was a significant contribution to the discussion of moral issues surrounding the abortion debate. She was also a co-author and editor of God's Fierce Whimsy: Christian Feminism and Theological Education (1985), a collection of articles by Christian feminists of diverse backgrounds, published by the Mudflower Collective. By highlighting the perspectives of women of color and lesbians, God's Fierce Whimsy helped challenge the traditional canon and methodologies of Christian theological education.[11]

In the 1970s, Harrison co-founded the Feminist Ethics Consultation of the Northeast, a mentoring organization for women in ethics. In 1982, she became the first woman to be elected president of the Society of Christian Ethics.[16] She retired in 1999.[10]

Harrison died on December 15, 2012, in North Carolina.

Awards

Harrison was granted the lifetime achievement award from the Society of Christian Ethics in 2012, but it was awarded posthumously at the annual meeting in 2013.[17]

Works

  • Our Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion (1983)
  • Making the Connections: Essays in Feminist Social Ethics (1985)
  • God's Fierce Whimsy: Christian Feminism and Theological Education (co-author, editor) (1985)
  • The Public Vocation of Christian Ethics (co-editor) (1986)
  • Justice in the Making: Feminist Social Ethics (2004)

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-664-22774-6
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  2. ^ "Beverly Wildung Harrison Receives the Lifetime Achievement Award". Society of Christian Ethics. March 18, 2013. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
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    ISBN 978-0-664-22774-6
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  4. ISSN 2155-2355
    . Retrieved January 7, 2020.
  5. ISBN 978-0-8006-3568-8
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  6. ^ Peters, Rebecca Todd (2019). "Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved January 7, 2020.
  7. ^
    JSTOR 25002353
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  8. ISBN 978-0-567-02603-3
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  9. ISBN 978-0-7425-3155-0
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  10. ^ a b "Beverly Jean Wildung Harrison". The Transylvania Times. December 23, 2012. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
  11. ^ a b Young, Tracy Riggle (2014). "Finding Aid: Beverly Wildung Harrison Papers, 1927-2013" (PDF). The Archives of Women in Theological Scholarship, The Burke Library, Columbia Libraries, at Union Theological Seminary. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
  12. ^ Hulsether, Mark (January 24, 2013). "The Mother of Christian Feminist Ethics, Beverly Wildung Harrison: 1932–2012". Religion Dispatches. Retrieved January 5, 2020.
  13. S2CID 170343797
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  14. S2CID 170533963
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  15. S2CID 144847925
    – via ATLA.
  16. ^ "Timeline | The Society of Christian Ethics". scethics.org. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
  17. ^ "Lifetime Achievement Award | The Society of Christian Ethics". scethics.org. Retrieved December 13, 2019.
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