Frances Baker rsm
BA (Melb) BEd (Melb) BTheol (MCD) STL (Greg) STD (Greg) Deputy Master
Department of Moral Theology and Canon Law
Department of Systematic Theology
Dr Frances Baker is Deputy Master of Catholic Theological College and a religious of the Sisters of Mercy (rsm). She is Head of the Department of Moral Theology and Canon Law, is a member of the Department of Systematic Theology, and is Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Teaching Religious Education. She lectures in Moral Theology and Systematic Theology.
Dr Frances Baker is Deputy Master of Catholic Theological College and a religious of the Sisters of Mercy (rsm). She is Head of the Department of Moral Theology and Canon Law, is a member of the Department of Systematic Theology, and is Coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Teaching Religious Education. She lectures in Moral Theology and Systematic Theology.
The undergraduate units she teaches include:
The postgraduate units she teaches include:
- CD360 Foundational Theology for Teaching Religious Education (10 points)
- CD361 Living Christian Faith: Sacramental and Moral Life (15 points)
- CD428 Christian Anthropology: In The Divine Image
- DM350 Fundamental Moral Theology
- DS315 The Experience of Catholic Culture Study Tour (30 points)
She also co-ordinates the units:
She also supervises and examines students for the unit:
Frances Baker holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Education from the University of Melbourne, a Bachelor of Theology from the Melbourne College of Divinity, a Licentiate in Sacred Theology and a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome.
She lectured in Moral and Systematic Theology at Australian Catholic University (2000-07). She also taught Christian Ethics, Social Justice, and Bioethics in the United Faculty of Theology whilst a staff member of Jesuit Theological College, Parkville (2001-04), and has extensive experience in Catholic secondary education including religious education co-ordination and twelve years as a school principal.
Her main academic interests are Christian anthropology as a source of moral decision making for the Christian, and the Christian moral conscience and its formation.
Her main academic interests are Christian anthropology as a source of moral decision making for the Christian, and the Christian moral conscience and its formation.
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