More on Margaret Farley's "Just Love"

RJA sj suggests (here) that Margaret Farley is beyond the (Catholic) pale because she disagrees with the magisterium on issues of human sexuality.  Well, that's one view.  Here's another ... that of RJA's fellow Jesuit, David Hollenbach, who holds a chair in theology at Boston College.

Hollenbach writes, in a passage that appears on the cover of Farley's Just Love:

Just Love is a true breakthrough--the best book on sexual ethics in many decades.  Farley shows how justice can guide sexual love along liberating paths that lead to genuine fulfillment, while also paying attention to the brokenness that touches all lives.  She makes an indispensable contribution to the life of the Christian community and to ethical theory in our pluralist cultural setting.  This is must reading.

For MOJ readers who aren't familiar with David Hollenbach--whom I've never heard anyone accuse of being beyond the Catholic pale, much less of being a "throwback to the 1960s"--here's some info:

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Before coming to Boston College, Hollenbach taught at Georgetown University and at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, MA. He has been Visiting Professor of Social Ethics at Hekima College of the Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, and at the Jesuit Philosophy Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In 1990, he conducted the annual Winter School of Theology in six cities in Southern Africa, sponsored by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Southern Africa.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
His research interests are in the foundation of Christian social ethics, particularly in the areas of the human rights, theory of justice, the common good, and the role of the religion in social and political life.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS
Hollenbach served as President of the Society of Christian Ethics (1995-1996) and on the Board of Directors of the Catholic Theological Society of America (1982-1984). He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Religious Ethics and the steering committee of the Consultation of Religion and Human Rights of the American Academy of Religion. He assisted the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in drafting their 1986 pastoral letter Economic Justice for All: Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy. In 1979 he received a Walsh-Price Fellowship for travel in Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt to do research on religion and human rights in the Middle East. In 1996 he received a Fulbright Fellowship for research and teaching in Kenya. In June, 1998, Hollenbach received the John Courtney Murray Award for outstanding contributions to theology from the Catholic Theological Society of America.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
His publications include The Common Good and Christian Ethics (2002); Catholicism and Liberalism: Contributions to American Public Philosophy, edited with R. Bruce Douglass (1994); Justice, Peace, and Human Rights: American Catholic Social Ethics in a Pluralistic World (1988); Nuclear Ethics: A Christian Moral Argument (1983); Claims in Conflict: Retrieving and Renewing the Catholic Human Rights Tradition (1979). A new book, Faith, Politics, and Society: Essays on Christian Ethics, will be published by Georgetown University Press in 2003.