The Lived Theology and Power Workgroup
Sondra E. Wheeler
Martha Ashby Carr Professor of Christian Ethics (Wesley Theological Seminary). B.A. (Wesleyan University); M.A.R. (Yale Divinity School); M.A. (Yale University); M.Phil. (Yale University); Ph.D. (Yale University).
Since completing her graduate work, Wheeler has taught theological and social ethics at Duquesne University where she specialized in bioethics for health care professionals, and at Wesley Theological Seminary where she is the Martha Ashby Carr Professor of Christian Ethics. In addition, she works with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Human Genome Initiative of the National Institute of Health on programs relating to social, ethical and religious aspects of genetic technology.
Her particular interest is in the interface between questions of biomedical ethics and the central commitments of Jewish and Christian faith. At present, she is working on a project funded by the Lilly Endowment on the moral character of parental power and its implications for bioethics.
Dr. Wheeler is the author of Stewards of Life: Bioethics and Pastoral Care (Abingdon, 1996) and Wealth as Peril and Obligation: The New Testament on Possessions (Eerdmans, 1995). She has also published a number of other essays and articles in the field of bioethics.