Gareth Moore (theologian)
Gareth Moore OP (6 July 1948 – 6 December 2002) was an English theologian, author and Dominican friar.
Life
Moore was born to Edward and Alice Moore in Bermondsey and attended Raine's Foundation School.[1] He was the first pupil from the school to get a scholarship to Oxford (Corpus Christi) where he graduated with a B.Litt degree, with his dissertation on the later writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein. He briefly joined the monastery at Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight but left to visit Zambia and teach mathematics. In 1977, Moore joined the Dominicans as a novice.[2]
In 1995, Moore was elected prior of the Couvent de l’Epiphanie in Rixensart, Belgium. In 2001, he returned to England and to Blackfriars, Oxford. He was soon diagnosed with kidney cancer and died in 2002.
Writing
Moore wrote a number of books an articles on religion including Believing in God (1988) and a number of works on human sexuality including The Body in Context: Sex and Catholicism (1992).
Sexuality
Moore wrote a number of works on the relationship between Christianity and sexuality. In The Body in Context, Moore challenges theological arguments presented on a number of topics in sexual ethics including those forbidding the use of contraception and condemning homosexuality. The latter topic was expanded in Moore's book A Question of Truth: Christianity and Homosexuality.[3]
References
- ↑ "Father Gareth Moore". The Times. 19 December 2002.
- ↑ Hodges, Marcus (14 December 2002). "Gareth Moore". The Tablet.
- ↑ Curran, Charles (2 August 2003). "A Question of Truth: Christianity and homosexuality—Gareth Moore". The Tablet.