A polished and inspiring speaker, Sheila T. Harty brings topics alive for her audience.  Her use of humor and keen insight make her an enlightening educator, and her political and personal ethics are applicable to the individual, the village, and the world.




 

 

 

 

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Theology

  • Intellectuals Are Still Neglected Sheep
  • Teilhard de Chardin's Theology of Evolution
  • Demythologizing Religion with Joseph Campbell
  • The Unitarian Heresy Against the Trinity
  • Thomas Merton's Last Talk Bangkok, 1968
  • Deconstructing Biblical Literalism: In Brief
  • Arguments Against Old Testament Literalism: In Full 
  • Arguments Against New Testament Literalism: In Full 
  • Faith and Reason: A Surprising Papal Encyclical
  • The Gnostic Challenge to Orthodoxy

Sociology of Religion

  • An Appreciation of Classical Islam
  • Islam's Brilliant Era was Our Dark Ages
  • Heaven and Hell: Evolution of a Belief
  • Absolute Nothingness and Absence of Meaning 
  • An Assessment of the Pontificate of John Paul II 
  • Noah, Gilgamesh, and the Black Sea Flood

Public Interest and Politics

  • How Mesopotamia Became Iraq
  • How Zoroastrian Persia Became Shiite Iran
  • Civil Religion in America I:  Myths of Separation between Church and State 
  • Civil Religion in America II:  Supreme Court & Church-State Separation
  • Just-War Principles of Augustine
  • The Sunnis and The Shiites: Origin of Islam's Schism
  • The Problem is Fundamentalism: Christian or Muslim

Feminism and the Patriarchy

  • How an Unwed Pregnant Teen Became Mother of God
  • The Much Maligned Mary Magdalene
  • God Uses Beauty as Dante Used Beatrice
  • The Lady, the Witch, and the Immaculate Conception
  • Why Not Female Priests?
  • Why is Wisdom a Female in Patriarchal Judaism?

Business Ethics

  • The Story of Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader
  • The Ethics of Citizenship from a Nader Rader
  • Corporate Crime and Consumer Initiatives
Contact Information

Sheila T. Harty
4020 Grande Vista Blvd #126
St. Augustine, FL 32084-1332
Telephone:  904 / 826-0563
Cell:  904 / 377-4947

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