Assistant Professor
Jame Schaefer (Ph.D., Marquette University, [1994]), [Systematics/Ethics], focuses on the constructive relationship between theology and the natural sciences with special attention to religious foundations for environmental ethics.
Her theological publications include articles in Cistercian Studies Quarterly, Theological Studies, and Worldviews: Religion, Culture, Science, all of which explore promising notions in the Catholic tradition for addressing ecological degradation; a monograph entitled Theological Foundations for Environmental Ethics: Retrieving and Reconstructing Patristic and Medieval Concepts is forthcoming from Georgetown University Press. She worked with faculty of other disciplines to develop the Interdisciplinary Minor in Environmental Ethics for which she serves as Director, and she co-advises Marquette Students for an Environmentally Active Campus (SEAC). She involves faculty from various natural and human sciences in her courses, team-teaches with Physics an occasionally offered course on the origin and nature of the universe, and co-steers the Albertus Magnus Circle, an interdisciplinary faculty discussion group on issues that interface religion and science. For her interdisciplinary efforts, she received a Religion and Science Course Award from the Templeton Foundation and a Quality and Excellence in Teaching Science and Religion Award from the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.
She convened the Theology and Ecology Group of the Catholic Theological Society of America for six years and holds membership in the American Academy of Religion, the College Theology Society, the Society for Christian Ethics, the International Society for Environmental Ethics, the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, and the Society for Spirituality, Theology and Health. In progress are a monograph exploring the contributions that diverse disciplines make to understanding the human person, an essay reconstructing the doctrine of God's omnipotence, and another exploring theological sources for coping with physical illness and death.
Teaching Fields
- Theology and the Natural Sciences
- Religious Foundations for Environmental Ethics
- Professional Vision
Office Location & Contact
- Coughlin Hall 115
(414) 288-3742
jame.schaefer@marquette.edu
- Interfacing Religion and Science web site
- Interdisciplinary Minor in Environmental Ethics
Office Hours
- Fall 2008
MW 2:00-3:15, and by appointment
Teaching Schedule
- Fall 2008
MW 3:35-6:15
Dr Schaefer will also be teaching the Capstone Seminar for the Interdisciplinary Minor in Environmental Ethics, subtitled “Global Warming”
ARSC 110, section 1001
For course description, click here.
- Spring 2009
TuTh 12:35-1:50, 2:00-3:15
Dr. Schaefer will also be teaching HOPR 140/896 TuTh 11-12:15
Theology Department Mission Statement
Marquette University defines itself as Christian, Catholic, Jesuit, urban, and independent. The Department of Theology functions within the university to investigate and understand the Catholic tradition, its relation to other Christian communions, and to other religions of the world. Read more of our mission statement.
