Marilyn J. Legge

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Associate Professor of Christian Ethics

B.A., Victoria University, Toronto, 1976
M.Div., Victoria University, Toronto, 1981
S.T.M., M.Phil., Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1990

On Research Leave 2011-2012

Contact
Office:  Room 210
Tel.: (416) 585-4537
Fax: (416) 585-4516
Email: m.legge@utoronto.ca

Teaching & Research Interests

Marilyn is passionate about Christian social ethics and the ways justice and community are morally imagined and lived. To that end, she works with the content, methods, and practices of Christian ethics, including vital tools for doing moral reflection and action. She encourages students to refine the ethical awareness that they bring to a variety of moral challenges, such as poverty, racism, gender and sexuality, within their lives, within the churches, and within society. She is a member of the Toronto School of Theology Advanced Degree faculty. She was the 2010 recipient of the United Church’s Davidson Trust Award for excellence in teaching and scholarship in theological education and has joined Massey College as a Senior Fellow. In addition she is avid about the great outdoors, ashtanga yoga, dancing, kayaking, and world music.

Articles on T-Space


Courses

EMT 2902HF 2010: Christian Ethics in Context

EMT 3604HS 2011: Becoming Intercultural Communities

EMT 3967HS: Community and Ethics

EMT 3934/6934HS 2011: Good Sex: Sexuality in Ethical Perspective

EMT 5912: Methods in Theological Ethics

EMT 5931HF 2010: Postcolonial and Critical Social Theories for Christian Ethics and Theology

EMT 5943: Mapping Women’s Work in Theological Ethics

Selected Publications

Marilyn Legge, "Theological Education at Crowded Crossroads," Toronto Journal of Theology 25 Supplement 1, 2009 (Fall 2009): 65 - 76

The Grace of Difference: A Canadian Feminist Theological Ethic (Scholars Press 1992)

Marilyn J. Legge, “Beyond Borders: Diversity as Moral and Spiritual Resource” iThe Ecumenist: A Journal of Theology, Culture and Society 42/3 (Summer 2005): 11 – 15

Beverly Wildung Harrison with co-editors Elizabeth Bounds, Pamela Brubaker, Jane Hicks, Marilyn J. Legge, Rebecca Todd Peters and Traci West, Justice in the Making: Feminist Social Ethics (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004).

“Building Inclusive Communities of Life” in Donald Schweitzer and Derek Simon, eds., Intersecting Voices: Critical Theologies in a Land of Diversity (Ottawa: Novalis, 2004): 285-304

Marilyn J. Legge, “Negotiating Mission: a Canadian Stance” International Review of Mission, 95/368 (January 2004): 119-130.

Marilyn J. Legge, “Seeking “Right Relations”: How Should Churches Respond to Aboriginal Voices?” in The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics (vol.22. Fall 2002): 27-48.

Phyllis Airhart, Marilyn J. Legge, and Gary Redcliffe, eds. Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World: Essays in Honour of Roger C. Hutchinson (Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2002)

Marilyn J. Legge, “Inside Communities, Outside Conventions: What's at Stake in Doing Theology?” (Studies in Religion/ Sciences Religieuses, 29/1 (2000): 1-16.

Marvin M. Ellison and Marilyn J. Legge, editors, Union Seminary Quarterly Review Festschrift for Beverly Harrison, 53, nos. 3-4 (1999) “The Work and Well–Being of Women in American Social Christianity: The Case of Henry Codman Potter (1835–1908),” Union Seminary Quarterly Review Vol. 53 (1999), pp. 125-151.

Marilyn J. Legge, “Bricoleurs–in–Community: Reframing Theologies of Culture,” Religious Studies and Theology, 16/1 (June 1997): 5–22.

“Multidialogical Spiraling: Healing and Justice in Feminist Theology and Ethics,” in Gender, Genre and Religion: Feminist Reflections, eds. Morny Joy and Eva Neumaier–Dargyay (Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier Press for Calgary Institute for the Humanities, 1995): 225-238

Marilyn J. Legge, “Colourful Differences: ‘Otherness’ and Image of God for Canadian Feminist Theologies,” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 21/1 (1992): 67–80.

Other Resources

Memberships:

American Academy of Religion

Canadian Theological Society (Past-President)

Society of Christian Ethics

KAIROS

United Church of Canada (Past-Chair of Committee on Theology & Faith 2000-2006;

The Ecumenist: A journal of Theology, Culture and Society (Contributing Editor)

Canadian Ecumenical Anti-Racism Network

Canadian Churches Forum for Global Ministries

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