After serving as an assistant campus chaplain at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, in the 1960s, she returned to Union Theological Seminary in 1966 to join the faculty as an instructor. She received tenure in 1980 and became the Caroline Williams Beaird Professor of Christian Ethics in 1986.[11]
While at Union, she authored and co-authored several influential works on feminist Christian ethics. Her lectures on "The Power of Anger in the Work of Love" and "The Role of Social Theory in Religious Ethics" were distributed widely among students and faculty, before being added to a published collection of essays, calledMaking the Connections: Essays in Feminist Social Ethics (1985), which has been called "one of the best books ever published in feminist religious thought."[12][13][14]
Her first published bookOur Right to Choose: Toward a New Ethic of Abortion (1983),[15] was a significant contribution to the discussion of moral issues surrounding the abortion debate. She was also a co-author and editor ofGod's Fierce Whimsy: Christian Feminism and Theological Education (1985), a collection of articles by Christian feminists of diverse backgrounds, published by the Mudflower Collective. By highlighting the perspectives of women of color and lesbians,God's Fierce Whimsy helped challenge the traditional canon and methodologies of Christian theological education.[11]
In the 1970s, Harrison co-founded the Feminist Ethics Consultation of the Northeast, a mentoring organization for women in ethics. In 1982, she became the first woman to be elected president of theSociety of Christian Ethics.[16] She retired in 1999.[10]
Harrison was granted the lifetime achievement award from theSociety of Christian Ethics in 2012, but it was awarded posthumously at the annual meeting in 2013.[17]
^abHarrison, Beverly Wildung (2004). "Working with Protestant Traditions: Feminist Transformations".Justice in the Making: Feminist Social Ethics. By Harrison, Beverly Wildung. Bounds, Elizabeth M.; Brubaker, Pamela K.; Hicks, Jane E.; Legge, Marilyn J.;Peters, Rebecca Todd; West, Traci C. (eds.). Interviewed by Legge, Marilyn J. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press. p. 147.ISBN978-0-664-22774-6.
^abHarrison, Beverly Wildung (2004). "Working with Protestant Traditions: Feminist Transformations".Justice in the Making: Feminist Social Ethics. By Harrison, Beverly Wildung. Bounds, Elizabeth M.; Brubaker, Pamela K.; Hicks, Jane E.; Legge, Marilyn J.;Peters, Rebecca Todd; West, Traci C. (eds.). Interviewed by Legge, Marilyn J. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press. p. 148.ISBN978-0-664-22774-6.
^abBurrow, Rufus Jr. (1999). "Toward Womanist Theology and Ethics".Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.15 (1):88–89.ISSN1553-3913.JSTOR25002353.
^Snarr, C. Melissa (2007).Social Selves and Political Reforms: Five Visions in Contemporary Christian Ethics. New York: T & T Clark. pp. 71, 85.ISBN978-0-567-02603-3.
^Miller-McLemore, Bonnie (2004). "Sloppy Mutuality: Just Love for Children and Adults". In Anderson, Herbert; Foley, Edward; Miller-McLemore, Bonnie; Schreiter, Robert (eds.).Mutuality Matters: Family, Faith, and Just Love. Lanham, Maryland: Sheed & Ward. p. 132.hdl:1803/3240.ISBN978-0-7425-3155-0.
^abYoung, Tracy Riggle (2014)."Finding Aid: Beverly Wildung Harrison Papers, 1927-2013"(PDF).The Archives of Women in Theological Scholarship, The Burke Library, Columbia Libraries, at Union Theological Seminary. RetrievedJanuary 4, 2020.
^Patrick, Anne E. (1987). "Book Review: Making the Connections: Essays in Feminist Social Ethics. By Beverly Wildung Harrison. Edited by Carol S. Robb. Boston: Beacon, 1985".Horizons.14 (2):409–410.doi:10.1017/S0360966900038275.ISSN0360-9669.S2CID170533963.
^Peters, Rebecca Todd (Spring 2014). "Beverly Wiildung Harrison: Forefronting Women's Moral Agency".Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.30 (1):121–122.doi:10.2979/jfemistudreli.30.1.121.S2CID144847925 – via ATLA.
