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Margaret Harper McCarthy

Assistant Professor of Theological Anthropology

B.A., Religion/French, Grove City College

M.A., Theology, University of St. Thomas

S.T.L., S.T.D., Pontifical John Paul II Institute, Pontifical Lateran University

 

Professor McCarthy received her doctoral degree in theology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute at the Lateran University in Rome (1994), with a dissertation on the contemporary theology of predestination.   Since then her teaching and writing has focused on various themes belonging to theological anthropology especially in their relation to the question of sexual difference: the imago Dei, person, equality, experience, as well as the problem of love (the "eros-agape problem").  She has been teaching at the John Paul II since 1992.

 

She is the Director of the Center for Cultural and Pastoral Research at the John Paul II Institute and serves on the editorial board of the English edition of Communio: International Catholic Review.

Associated Courses

JPI 510/729 - Theological Anthropology: History and Method
JPI 971 - The Meaning of Courtship
JPI 927 - Spousal Love and the Relationship between Eros and Agape
JPI 725 - Theological Meaning of Love and Sexuality
JPI 950 - Feminism in Theology and Culture