James Keenan, S.J.

EDUCATION
B.A. Fordham University, New York
MDiv Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, MA
STL, STD, Gregorian University, Rome

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Jim Keenan has been a Jesuit of the New York Province since 1970, and an ordained priest since 1982.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Fundamental moral theology; history of theological ethics; Thomas Aquinas; virtue ethics; HIV/AIDS; Genetics; Church Leadership Ethics

TEACHING
Fundamental Moral Theology
Virtue Ethics
Twentieth Century Catholic Moral Theology
New Testament and Ethics
The Church and Ethics: Contemporary and Historical Cases
The Human Body
The Ethics of Thomas Aquinas
Ethical Issues of HIV/AIDS
Genetics Seminar

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.

Fellow, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton

Grant and Faculty Fellowship, Association of Theological Schools,

Tuohy Chair, John Carroll University;

Gasson Chair, Boston College

Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award (2002) Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS
Prevention

Consultant to National Conference of Catholic Bishops for the Revision of the Ethical Guidelines for Catholic Health Care Institutions 1988-1995

Editorial Board Member of Theological Studies. 1991-

Series Editor, Moral Traditions, Georgetown University Press 1993-

Chair, Catholic Theological Coalition on HIV/AIDS Prevention, 1997-

Board of Trustees, John Carroll University, 1999-2002

Group Leader, Surgeon General’s Task Force on Responsible Sexual Conduct 2000-2002

Advisor, Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance, 2000-

Board of Directors, Society of Christian Ethics, 2001-

Chair, Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, 2003-

Adjunct Professor, Gregorian University, Rome: Loyola School of Theology, Manila.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Goodness and Rightness in Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae (Georgetown UP, 1992).

The Context of Casuistry edited with Thomas Shannon (Georgetown UP, 1995).

Virtues for Ordinary Christians (Sheed and Ward, 1996) [Virtudes de Un Cristiano (Bilbao: Mensajero, 1999), Virtues for Ordinary Christians (Philippines Claretian Press, 2001); Les Vertus Un Art de Vivrer... Tout Simplement, (Les Editions de l’Atelier, 2002) Cnoty na codzien WAM: 2003.]

Commandments of Compassion (Sheed and Ward, 1999) [Os Dez mandamentos: A rocha da ética cristã (Edições Loyola, 2001); Commandments of Compassion (Philippines: Claretian Press, 2001).]

Practice What You Preach: Virtues, Ethics and Power in the Lives of Pastoral Ministers and Their Congregations edited with Joseph J. Kotva, Jr. (Sheed and Ward, 1999)

Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention edited, assisted by Lisa Sowle Cahill, Jon Fuller, and Kevin Kelly (Continuum, 2000) [Philippine Edition: Claretian Press, 2001].

Shaping the Moral Life: An Introduction to Moral Theology by Klaus Demmer, edited. (Georgetown UP, 2000).

Jesus and Virtue Ethics: Building Bridges Between New Testament Studies and Moral Theology with Daniel Harrington, (Sheed and Ward, 2002)

Moral Wisdom: Lessons and Texts from the Catholic Tradition (Sheed and Ward, 2004).

PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2002
Books:
Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church: The Plenary Papers from the First Cross-cultural Conference on Catholic Theological Ethics edited (New York: Continuum, 2007).

Toward a Global Vision of Catholic Moral Theology: Reflections on the Twentieth Century (Bangalore: Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram Press, 2007).

The Works of Mercy: The Heart of Catholicism Second Edition (Lanham, Md.: Sheed and Ward, 2007).

The Works of Mercy: The Heart of Catholicism  (Lanham, Md.: Sheed and Ward, 2005).

Church Ethics and its Organizational Context:  Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church, edited with Jean Bartunek and Mary Ann Hinsdale (Lanham, Md.: Sheed and Ward, 2005).

MoralWisdom: Lessons and Texts from the Catholic Tradition (Lanham, Md.: Sheed and Ward, 2004). 

Jesus and Virtue Ethics: Building Bridges Between New Testament Studies and Moral Theology with Daniel Harrington, (Lanham, Md.: Sheed and Ward, 2002)

Academic Articles:
“"Four of the Tasks for Theological Ethics in a Time of HIV/AIDS," Regina Ammicht-Quinn and Hille Haker, ed., AIDS (Concilium 3/2007) (London: SCM Press, 2007) 64-74.  (also in Italian, German, Spanish, and French)

“Perfecting Ourselves: On Christian Tradition and Enhancement,” Southern Medical Journal, 100.1 (January 2007 ) 96-97. 

“Guest Editorial: Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church,” Theological Studies 68.1 (2007) 1-2.

“Can We Talk?: Theological Ethics and Sexuality”  Theological Studies 68.1 (2007) 113-131.

With Courtney Campbell, Lauren Clark, David Loy, Kathleen Matthews, Terry Winograd, and Laurie Zoloth, "The Bodily Incorporation of Mechanical Devices: Ethical and Religious Issues (Part 2)" Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 16.3 (2007) 268-280.

With Courtney Campbell, Lauren Clark, David Loy, Kathleen Matthews, Terry Winograd, and Laurie Zoloth, "Bodily Incorporation of Mechanical Devices: Ethical and Religious Issues (Part I)" Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 16.2 (2007) 227-237.

“The Moral Rights of Priests,” Donald Dietrich and Michael J. Himes, ed., Priests for the Twenty-first Century (Lanham, Md.: Sheed and Ward, 2006).

Moral Theology,” Raymond Bullman and Fred Parrella, ed., From Trent to Vatican II: Historical and Theological Investigations (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006)161-178.

“Church Leadership, Ethics and the Future,’ The Santa Clara Lecture,  Santa Clara, Vol. 12 March 7, 2006

“Catholicism, history,” In Alan Soble, ed., Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, 2 vols. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006, 143-153.

“FundamentalMoral Theology at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century,” Theological Studies 67.1 (2006) 99-119.

with John Paris and Kenneth Himes, “Did John Paul’s Allocution on Life-Sustaining Treatments Revise Tradition?  A Response to Thomas A. Shannon and James J. Walter,  Theological Studies 67.1 (2006) 163-168.

“Virtue Ethics and Sexual Ethics,” Louvain Studies 30:3 (2005) 183-203.

“Framing the Ethical Rights of Priests,” Review for Religious 64.2 (2005) 135-151

“What Does Virtue Ethics Bring to Genetics?” Lisa Sowle Cahill, ed., Genetics, Theology, Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Conversation (New York: Crossroads/ Herder, 2005) 97-113

“Suffering, the Body, and Christianity: The Early Christians Lived the Theological Basis of Catholic Health Care,” Health Progress 86.3 (2005) 53-59.

“John Mahoney’s The Making of Moral Theology,” Gilbert Meilaender and William Werpehowski, ed., Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) 503-519.

with Jon Fuller, “Educating in a Time of HIV/AIDS: Learning from the Legacies of Human Rights, the Common Good, and the Works of Mercy,” Opening Up: Speaking Out in the Church Julian Filochowski and Peter Stanford, ed., (London: Darton Longman & Todd, 2005) 95-113.

“Developments in Bioethics from the Perspective of HIV/AIDS,” Cambridge Quarterly of HealthCare Ethics, 14.4, (2005) 416-423.

“Toward an Ecclesial Professional Ethics,” Church Ethics and its Organizational Context Jean Bartunek, Mary Ann Hinsdale, and James Keenan, ed., (Lanham, Md.: Sheed and Ward, 2005) 83-96.

“Was William Perkins’ Whole Treatise of Cases of Consciences Casuistry?: Hermeneutics and British Practical Divinity” Contexts of Conscience in Early Modern Europe: 1500-1700, Harald E. Braun and Edward Vallance, ed.  (New York: Palgrave, 2004) 17-31

“Fundamental Moral Theology at the Beginning of the New Millennium: Looking Back, Looking Forward”  Theological Studies  65 (2004) 119-140.

“The Birth of Jesuit Casuistry: Summa casuum conscientiae, sive de instructione sacerdotum, libri septem by Francesco de Toledo (1532-1596),” The Mercurian Project: “Forming Jesuit Culture, 1573-1580, Thomas McCoog, ed., (Rome: Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 2004) 461-482

“The Language of Human Rights and Social Justice in the Face of HIV/AIDS,” (with Jon Fuller)  Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture 8.1-2 (2004) 211-233.

“The Open Debate: Moral Theology and the Lives of Gay and Lesbian Persons,” Theological Studies 64.1 (2003) 127-150.

“Suffering and the Christian Tradition,” Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine  http://info.med.yale.edu/intmed/hummed/yjhm/

with Jon Fuller, “Church Politics and HIV Prevention: Why is the Condom Question So Significant and So Neuralgic?” with Jon Fuller, Between Poetry and Politics, Essays in Honour of Enda McDonagh, Linda Hogan and Barbara FitzGerald, ed., (Dublin: Columba Press, 2003) 158-181.

“L’Etica delle Virtù: Per una sua Promozione fra I Teologi moralisti italiani,” Rassegna di Teologia 44 (2003) 569-590

“The Heart of Virtuous Leadership,” The Trusted Leader: A Conference on Those We Follow  (Washington, DC: FADICA, 2003) 13-22.

“The Virtue of Prudence (IIa IIae 47-56),” Stephen Pope, ed., The Ethics of Aquinas (Washington: Georgetown UP, 2002) 259-271.

“The Moral Agent: Actions and Normative Decision Making,”  James J. Walter, Timothy O’Connell, and Thomas Shannon, ed., A Call to Fidelity: On the Moral Theology of Charles E. Curran (Washington: Georgetown UP, 2002) 37-54.

“Foreword,” Mark Graham, Josef Fuchs on Natural Law (Washington: Georgetown UP, 2002) ix-xiii

General Essays:
"Telling the Truth to Hurt Another," Church 23.3 (2007) 44-46.

"Higher Education in a Time of HIV/AIDS," National Jesuit News 36.6 (June 2007) 3.

"The Language of Faith," Church 23.2 (2007) 51-53

"Vocation," Church 23.1 (2007) 52-54
 
“The First International Crosscultural Conference for Catholic Theological Ethics Held in Italy,” National Jesuit News October 2006, 9.

“Catholic Common Ground in Padova,” Church 22.4 (2006) 47-49.

“The Powerful Role of Memory in Spirituality and Ethics,” Church 22.3 (2006) 44-45, 47.

With Linda Hogan, “Ethics for a Troubled World,” The Tablet  (July 22, 2006) 10-11

“The Powerful Role of Memory in Spirituality and Ethics,” Church 22.3 (2006) 44-45, 47.

“Keeping Vigil at Christmas,” Church 22.2 (2006) 41-43.

 “Fostering Conversation” Church 22.1 (2006) 48-50.

 “Silence in an Ethics of the Word,” Church 21.4 (2005) 48-49

 “Conscience in an Ethics of the Word,” Church 21.3 (2005)

"The Human Voice," Church 21.2 (2005)

“Champion of Conscience,” America(April 4, 2005) 6

“A Restive and Divided Church,” Boston Globe op-ed, April 13, 2005.

“A Critical Challenge: Recovering Christian Dialogue,” Church 21.1 (2005) 46-49.

“Learning the Ethics of the Word,” Church 20.4 (2004) 46-48.

“The Ethical Rights of Priests,” Touchstone, National Federation of Priests Councils 20 (Fall: 2004) 6, 19-20.

“Outsiding,” The Living Pulpit 13.4 (October-December 2004) 24-25.

“An Ethics of the Word,” Church 20.3 (2004) 43-45.

With Jon Fuller, “The International AIDS Conference: Two Views,” America (August 30, 2004) 13-16

“Ethics Inside the Church: Looking Back, Looking Forward,” Church 20.2 (2004) 44-46.

“The Seventh Work of Mercy: Prayers of Supplication,” Church 20.1 (2004) 42-44

With John Paris, “Ethical Analysis and the Facts,” America (December 22-29, 2003) 15

“Being Vigilant Can Be An Act of Mercy,” Church 19.4 (2003) 42-44.

“A Reconciling Spirit,” Church 19.3 (2003) 49-51

“The Spiritual Works of Mercy,” Church 19.2 (2003) 43-45.

“Being a Minister of Mercy,” Church 19.1 (2003) 42-44.

“Rebuilding in Boston,” The Tablet (4 January 2003) 7-8.

“Clothe the Naked: It Started with Adam and Eve,” Church 18.4 (2002) 44-46.

“Visit the Sick: From Deacons to Hospitals,” Church  18.3 (2002) 42-44.

“A Taste of Heaven,” The Tablet (3 August 2002) 11.

“Bury the Dead, Part II” Church 18.2 (2002) 39-41

“Sex Abuse, Power Abuse,” The Tablet (11 May 2002) 9-10.

“The Purge of Boston,” The Tablet (30 March 2002) 17-19

Bury the Dead,” Church 18.1 (2002) 43-45.