Deputy Master

Department of Systematic Theology
Department of Moral Theology and Canon Law

Dr Frances Baker is Head of the Department of Moral Theology and Canon Law, and is a member of the Department of Systematic Theology. She lectures in Moral Theology and Systematic Theology.  She is the Deputy Master of Catholic Theological College and a religious of the Sisters of Mercy (rsm).

The undergraduate units she teaches include:

• CD216/316 Theology of the Human Person
• CH103/203/303 The Experience of Catholic Culture Study Tour
• CH104/204/304The Experience of Catholic Culture Study Tour
• DM106 Fundamental Moral Theology
• DS115/215/315 The Experience of Catholic Culture Study Tour
• DS116/216/316 The Experience of Catholic Culture Study Tour

The postgraduate units she teaches include:

She also co-ordinates the units:

• DM397/398 Moral Theology Seminar
• DM497/498 Moral Theology Seminar

She also supervises and examines students for the unit:

• CD450 Theological Synthesis

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 of Sacred Theology and a Doctorate of 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.

Contact: Email Frances Baker