Professor Maureen Junker-Kenny
Professor in Theology
e: mjunkerk@tcd.ie
t: +353 1 896 1044/896 1297
Academic Degrees / Qualifications
Staatsexamen (Tübingen), M.A., Dr. Theol. (Mün), Habil. (Tübingen), F.T.C.D.
Background
Maureen Junker-Kenny did M.A.s (Staatsexamen) in English, Catholic Theology and Philosophy at the universities of Tübingen and Münster. She completed a Ph.D. on F. Schleiermacher’s Christology and theory of religion at the university of Münster and her Habilitation on J. Habermas’s discourse ethics in Tübingen where she was a lecturer before coming to Trinity College Dublin in 1993. She is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin.
Research Interests
Conditions of faith in modernity, religion and public reason, philosophical and theological theories of action, discourse ethics, P. Ricoeur, F. Schleiermacher, biomedical ethics.
Departmental and School Responsibilities
Maureen Junker-Kenny is currently Junior Sophister Head of Year and Erasmus coordinator in the Department.
Teaching Responsibilities
Undergraduate Teaching
SF/JS Christianity and Society
SF/JS Contemporary Ethical Issues
SF/JS Ethics, Philosophical and Theological
SF/JS Approaches to Theological Ethics
SS Theology and Ethics of Memory
SS Autonomy and Disability, Diversity and Perfection
Postgraduate Teaching
Postgraduate Seminar Theology
Masters in Theology: Module Christology
Masters in Disability Studies (MSc), cooperation in Module: Disability Policies, Law and Ethics
Recent Publications
Books
Habermas and Theology (London/New York: T & T Clark/Continuum, 2011) (Series: Philosophy and Theology).
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Cathriona Russell & Linda Hogan & Maureen Junker-Kenny (eds.), Ethics for Graduate Researchers: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach (Oxford: Elsevier, 2012)
Book chapters and journal articles
‘Dignity, Fragility, Singularity in Paul Ricoeur’s Ethics’, in Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity. Historical Traditions, Philosophical Interpretations, Legal Implementation and Contemporary Challenges, ed. by M. Düwell, J. Braarvig, R. Brownsword, D. Mieth (Cambridge: CUP, forthcoming 2014).
‘Granting forgiveness: Moral blackmail, or a free gift? Questions to the Epilogue of Paul Ricoeur's Memory, History, Forgetting’, in Annali di Studi Religiosi 13 (2012), 149-158.
‘Recognising traditions of argumentation in philosophical ethics,’ in C. Russell/L.Hogan/M. Junker-Kenny (eds.), Ethics for Graduate Researchers: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach (Oxford: Elsevier, 2012), 7-26.
‘Section 2: Research Ethics Governance in the EU. The Role of Civic Debate. The Question of Limits in Research’, ibid., 51-58.
‘Witnessing or mutual translation? Religion and the requirements of reason’, in Concilium 2011/1, From World Mission to Interreligious Witness (London: SCM, 2011), 105-114.
‘Between Postsecular Society and the Neutral State: Religion as a Resource for Public Reason’, in N. Biggar/L. Hogan (eds.), Religious Voices in Public Places (Oxford: OUP, 2009), 58-81.
‘Virtues and the God Who Makes Everything New’, in A. Mayes/W. Jeanrond (eds.), Recognising the Margins: Essays in Honour of Seán Freyne (Dublin: Columba Press, 2006), 298-320, reprinted in E. McDonagh/V. MacNamara (eds.), An Irish Reader in Moral Theology. The Legacy of the Last Fifty Years. Vol. I: Foundations (Dublin: Columba Press, 2009), 169-186.
List of undergraduate theses and PhD theses supervised
Contact Details
t: +353 1 8961044
e: mjunkerk@tcd.ie
Art Building, Room: 5030, Trinity College Dublin