Susan Frank Parsons

e-mail: sfparsons@btinternet.com

Susan Frank Parsons is -

Co-founder and Trustee of the Society of St Catherine of Siena, a charitable trust committed to the renewal of the intellectual apostolate in the Roman Catholic Church, and associated with the English Province of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans);

Society of St Catherine of Siena

Editor with Laurence Paul Hemming of the book series, Faith in Reason, for SCM-Canterbury Press and University of Notre Dame Press;

Editor with Laurence Paul Hemming of the book series, Studies in Fundamental Liturgy, for T & T Clark;

Editor of the journal, Studies in Christian Ethics, on behalf of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics.

 

BIOGRAPHY

Fellow of St Bede’s Hall Oxford; President, Society for the Study of Christian Ethics, 2006-2009; Appointed Special Lecturer in Ethics, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham 2004; Appointed Fellow of the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology 2002-2005; Director of Pastoral Studies and Acting Principal of the Institute 2000-2002; Principal of the East Midlands Ministry Training Course, University of Nottingham 1990-1997; Vice-Principal of the East Midlands Ministry Training Course 1987-1990; Lecturer in Department of Literature, Languages and Philosophy, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham 1980-1985; Assistant Professor in Department of Religion, Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut USA, 1971-1975; PhD (1973) University of Durham; MA (1968) DePauw University, Greencastle Indiana USA.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Ethics and ontology; fundamental theology and apologetics; questions in moral theology; theological anthropology; theology and philosophy in postmodernity; gender theory; feminist theology and ethics.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Society for the Study of Christian Ethics, Association of Teachers of Moral Theology, Societas Ethica, Society of Christian Ethics (USA), American Academy of Religion.

PUBLICATIONS (since 1994)

Books

The Ethics of Gender, Blackwell, 2002.

Feminism and Christian Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Edited Books

Co-editor of Redeeming Truth: Considering Faith and Reason, for SCM Press/University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming 2007.

Co-editor of the English translation of Henri de Lubac's Corpus Mysticum, SCM Press/University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. 

Co-editor of Restoring Faith in Reason, a new translation into English of the Papal Encyclical Letter Fides et ratio together with a commentary and discussion, SCM Press/University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.

Editor of The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Editor of Challenging Women's Orthodoxies in the Context of Faith, Ashgate, 2000.

 

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Dr Susan Frank Parsons, 1 Cackle Hill Cottages, Snelston, Ashbourne, Derbyshire DE6 2DL, UK.