The Lived Theology and
Community Building Workgroup
Amy Laura Hall
Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics (Duke Divinity School). B.A. (Emory University); M.Div. (Yale University); Ph.D. (Yale University).
Professor Hall's interests include the retrieval of traditional Christian texts for moral discernment, Kierkegaard studies, and Christian bioethics. In Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press, Hall describes Kierkegaard's account of fallen and faithful intimacy, reading Works of Love alongside several pseudonymous texts. She is presently writing her second book, Conceiving Parenthood: Faith, Boundaries and Bioethics, in which she argues against reproductive technologies, selective abortion, and the use of children in non-therapeutic research. Her scholarly articles appear in The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, The Journal of Religious Ethics, Modern Theology, and The International Kierkegaard Commentary.
While a graduate student in New Haven, Hall worked as a union organizer for the Graduate Employees Student Organization and as the education director for First and Summerfield United Methodist Church. As an ordained pastor in the United Methodist Church, Professor Hall has served both inner-city and suburban parishes. She is a member of Trinity UMC, an old, downtown church in Durham, NC, where she teaches children's Sunday School each week. Professor Hall, along with her husband and daughter, have also been active in IAF, both in New Haven and in Durham.