Marilyn J. Legge
B.A. (Toronto - Victoria), M.Div. (Victoria), S.T.M., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Union Theological Seminary, NY)
Associate Professor of Christian Ethics
Office 210
Phone: (416) 585-4537; Fax: (416) 585-4516
E-mail address: m.legge@utoronto.ca
Marilyn J. Legge is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics. She was born into a United Church of Canada manse in northern Ontario and raised in ecumenical contexts there and in Quebec and Central Africa. Her theological practice has also been shaped by involvement with the Student Christian Movement, Canadian Crossroads International with a term in Sri Lanka, with Frontier College doing adult education and community development work, and with Nellie's Hostel for Women in Crisis in Toronto.
She completed a Bachelors of Arts in History and Religious Studies at Victoria College, a Masters of Divinity at Emmanuel College, and following her passion for ecumenical, intercultural work, she earned her doctorate in Christian social ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She served as a teaching assistant for James Cone, Beverly Harrison, and Dorothee Soelle and also worked as a security guard, switchboard operator, and window glazier. She then taught for nearly a decade at St. Andrew’s College in Saskatoon before joining the Emmanuel College faculty in 1998. Dr. Legge was appointed the first June Callwood Professor in Social Justice at Victoria College to start in the fall of 2006 for a three year term teaching a course each semester for the Vic One programme in the Pearson stream: /scripts/index_.asp?action=31&U_ID=0&OP_ID=2&N_ID=4&P_ID=10826
She has chaired the United Church of Canada's Theology and Faith Committee, is a Past President of the Canadian Theological Society, and is a Contributing Editor to The Ecumenist: A journal of Theology, Culture and Society.
Her commitments to justice and community are expressed through teaching, research and a variety of networks and projects. Her diversions include jazz, dancing, hiking and gardening.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Christian social ethics, critical social, religious and cultural thought, including feminist, post-colonial and social postmodernism in global and Canadian contexts.
COURSES 2005-6 [on sabbatical 2004-5]
EMT 2902F Introduction to Christian Ethics
EMT 3934/6934F Good Sex: Sexuality in Ethical Perspective
EMT 3943/6943F Mapping Women’s Work in Theological Ethics
EMT 2901S Public Witness: Church Policies and Ethics
EMT 3967/6967S Community and Ethics
PUBLICATIONS
The Grace of Difference: A Canadian Feminist Theological Ethic (Scholars Press 1992)
Co-Edited Volumes:
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).
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)
Marvin M. Ellison and Marilyn J. Legge, editors, Union Seminary Quarterly Review Festschrift for Beverly Harrison, 53, nos. 3-4 (1999)
Curt Cadorette, Marie Giblin, Marilyn J. Legge and Mary Hembrow Snyder,editors, Liberation Theology: An Introductory Reader, (Maryknoll, NY: OrbisBooks, 1992)
Theology and Faith Committee, The Authority and Interpretation of Scripture: A Statement of the United Church of Canada (Toronto: United Church Publishing House,
1992), 74 pp. [Marilyn Legge was a member of the committee authoring this publication.]
Chapters/Entries:
“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
"Contextualization" and "Imperialism" entries in Dictionary of Feminist Theologies, eds.
Letty Russell and Shannon Clarkson, (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996).
“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
“The Church in Solidarity: Liberation Ecclesiology” in Curt Cadorette, Marie Giblin, Marilyn J. Legge and Mary Hembrow Snyder, editors, Liberation Theology: An Introductory Reader, (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1992): 159-169
Journal Articles:
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.
Marilyn J. Legge, “Inside Communities, Outside Conventions: What's at Stake in Doing Theology?” (Studies in Religion/ Sciences Religieuses, 29/1 (2000): 1-16.
Marilyn J. Legge, “Bricoleurs–in–Community: Reframing Theologies of Culture,” Religious Studies and Theology, 16/1 (June 1997): 5–22.
Marilyn J. Legge, “Flowing Both Ways: Towards a Radical Theology of Culture,” in The Arts: The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies, 7/2 (1995): 19–23.
Marilyn J. Legge, “Visions for Power‑in‑Relation,” in Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Special Issue in Honor of Beverly Wildung Harrison, 9/1‑2 (Spring/Fall 1993): 233‑238.
Marilyn J. Legge, “Colourful Differences: ‘Otherness’ and Image of God for Canadian Feminist Theologies,” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 21/1 (1992): 67–80.
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