About Dr. Haker

Upcoming Publications

Theodore Hesburgh on Science and Technologies–An Ethical Comment (accepted, forthcoming 2022)

Power, Morality, and Sexual Violence in the Church, special issue, ed.D. Reisinger et al.:Macht Missbrauch in der Kirche (in preparation)

Experience, Identity and Moral Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. In: ViennaConference Proceedings on Artificial Intelligence (forthcoming)

Feminist Challenges to Theology–A Christian Perspective. In: Tager Conference onFeminism in the Abrahamic Religions,2021) (invited article)

Spiritual Care(Studies in Spiritual Care, ed. Michael Coors), (in preparation)

Naturrecht als Ideologie. In:”Ewig wahr? Zur Genese von Glaubensüberzeugungen undihrem Anspruch auf Wahrheit und Unveränderlichkeit-ein interdisziplinärer Diskurs” (ed.G.Werner) (in preparation)

Contribution to Global Ethic or Global Ethics. The Legacy of Hans Kueng (ed. By PaulLakeland) (in preparation)

Kommentare zu:Theologische Analysen und Diskussionen von Fallerzählungen (ed.ByC. Mandry and G. Wanderer) (in preparation)

Recent Publications

English

1.Uprooted: Towards a Medical Ethics of Suffering.In: Christof Mandry (Hg.):Suffering inTheology and Medical Ethics. Paderborn, Brill/Schöningh, 2022, 113-144.

2.The Ethics of Radical Life Extension: Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox ChristianPerspectives:Hille Haker,Perry Hamalis, William Schweiker, and Myriam Renaud). In:Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 41/2,2021,315-330.

3. Covid19: Ethical Perspective from the United States.In: ET Studies 12/1, 2021, 39-49.

4.Information or Communication–The Loss of the Language of the Human.In: MilošLichner(Ed.) Hope. Where does our Hope lie? International Congress of the EuropeanSociety for Catholic Theology (August 2019–Bratislava, Slovakia), Berlin (Lit Verlag),2021, 505-523.

5.Recognition and Responsibility,in: Religions. Special Issue “The Provincesof Moral Theology andReligious Ethics,” edited by Dafydd Mills Daniel 12,7 (2021), 467 (18 pages).https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/7/467

6.Decolonizing Religion(s). A New Catholic Direction for theGlobal Ethic.In: Myriam Renaud,William Schweiker (eds): Multi-Religious Perspectives on a GlobalEthic: In Search of aCommonMorality, Routledge, New York, 2020, 165-184.

7.From political theology to Critical political ethics.In:(M. Becka, BernarderthCaero Bustillos,João Vila-Chã (eds.): Politics, Theology, and the Meaning of Power, Concilium 3/2020, in fivelanguages, English version p. 63-73; German:Von der Neuen Politischen Theologie zur KritischenPolitischen Ethik.In:(M. Becka, Bernarderth Caero Bustillos, João Vila-Chã (Hrsg.): Politik,Theologie und die Frage der Macht, Concilium 3, 2020, 276-275

8.Towards a Decolonial Narrative Ethics,Reprinted in: Adam Zachary Newton (ed.):Ethics andLiterary Practice, Basel 2020: MDPI, 2020, 72-102.(https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2424)

9.Human Dignity and Gendered Violence.In: Jonathan Rothschildt and Matthew Petrusek(eds.):Value and Vulnerability. An Interfaith Dialogue on Human Dignity, Notre Dame (Universityof Notre Dame Press), 2020, 411-457.

10.Andorno, Roberto, Baylis, Francoise et al. (Haker, Hille):Geneva Statement on HeritableHuman Genome Editing: The Need for Course Correction.In:Trends in Biotechnology,|Volume38, ISSUE 4, April 01, 2020, P351-354

German

1.Die USA am Scheidepunkt? Eine politisch-ethische Intervention. In: Krise undTransformation. Scheidewege 1-2021, hg. v. Jean-Pierre Wils, 91-112

2.Geschlechtsangleichende Behandlungen bei transgender Jugendlichen–EthischeFragen.In: Herder Korrespondenz, 9/2021, 36-40.

3.Laudatio aus Anlass der Verleihung des Alfons Auer Ethik Preises für Mary McAleese. In: Theologische Quartalschrift Tübingen, 1-2021, 96-102.

4.Verletzliche Freiheit. Zu einem neuen Prinzip der Bioethik.In: Hildegund Keul (ed.),Theologische Vulnerabilitätsforschung–gesellschaftsrelevant und interdisziplinär, Stuttgart(Kohlhammer), 2021, 99-118.

Articles for a broader audience:

“No Justice, No Peace!” On Hans Küng’s Global Ethic Project.In: Berkley Center for Religion,Peace, and World Affairs (May 17, 2021) https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/no-justice-no-peace-on-hans-kung-s-global-ethic-project

Der Tag danach.Einschätzungen zum 6.1.2021 in den USA.In:feinschwarz.Theologisches Feuilleton.https://www.feinschwarz.net/der-tag-danach/

Book Review 2020

“Scripture scholar John Wijngaards lays out the reasons to ordain women.” In: NCR Oct. 3, 2020, https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/scripture-scholar-john-wijngaards-lays-out-reasons-ordain-women

Current Academic Standing

Academic Position:

Richard McCormick Chair for Moral Theology, Loyola University Chicago (2010- Present)

Hille Haker holds the Richard McCormick, S. J., Endowed Chair of Moral Theology at Loyola University Chicago. Her research focuses on foundations of ethics, moral identity, literary & narrative ethics, Christian ethics as critical social ethics, bioethics, and feminist ethics.

Research Areas:

Moral Identity & Concepts of the Self (agency, autonomy, alterity, narrativity, shame, recognition and responsibility as ethical concepts)

New Technologies & Bioethics (reproductive medicine, human genetics, HIV/AIDS, and new technologies: nanotechnology, synthetic biology, information and communication technology, robotics)

Literature & Ethics / Hermeneutical Ethics (modern literature & narratives as medium of/for ethics, experiential ethics, narrative bioethics)

Justice & Social Ethics (human rights and global justice, solidarity, political theology and ethics, compassion and social recognition)

Feminist ethics (women’s rights, violence against women, feminist theory and gender theory, feminist bioethics, sex-trafficking)

Christian Ethics: Foundational Questions (critical theory, fundamental theological ethics and methods, Catholic moral theology & social ethics, sexual ethics, Catholic feminist ethics)

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