

Vice Provost for Global Engagement
Canisius Professor; Director of The Jesuit Institute
Stokes Hall 331N
Telephone: 617-552-3765
Email: james.keenan.2@bc.edu
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
Catholic Theological Ethics, twelfth through eighteenth centuries
John and Virtue Ethics
university ethics, fundamental moral theology; history of theological ethics; Thomas Aquinas; virtue ethics; HIV/AIDS; Church leadership ethics
A Brief History of Catholic Ethics, Paulist Press, (forthcoming)
Building Bridges in Sarajevo: The Plenary Papers of Sarajevo 2018, co-edited with Kristin Heyer and Andrea Vicini (Marynoll: Orbis books, July 2019)
Street Homelessness and Catholic Theological Ethics, coedited with Mark McGreevy, (Marynoll: Orbis books, July 2019)
Contingent Faculty edited with Matt Gaudet, Journal of Moral Theology 8.1 (Spring 2019)
Amoris Laetitia: A New Momentum for Moral Formation and Pastoral Practice edited with Grant Gallicho (Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2018)
The Bible and Catholic Theological Ethics edited with Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan and Ronaldo Zacharias, (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2017).
A Lúcás Chan Reader: Pioneering Essays on Biblical and Asian Theological Ethics, edited with George Griener (Bangalore: Dharmarham, 2017)
Doing Catholic Theological Ethics in a Cross Cultural and Interreligious Asian Context edited with Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan and Shaji George Kochuthara, Bangalore: Dharmaram Press, 2016.
University Ethics: How Colleges can Build and Benefit from a Culture of Ethics, Rowman and Littlefield, May 2015
"The World at Risk: Vulnerability, Precarity and Connectedness" Theological Studies 81.1 (2020) 132-149
“The Renewal of Moral Theology,” Richard Gaillardetz, ed., Cambridge Companion to Vatican II (New York: Cambridge UP)
“The Community Colleges: Giving Them the Ethical Recognition They Deserve,” Journal Of Moral Theology 9.1 (2020)
“University Ethics and Contingent Faculty,” Journal of Moral Theology, 8.1 (2019) 8-25
“Amoris Laetitia: Trasformazione della Teologia pastorale e trasformazione della Chiesa,” Antonio Autiero, ed., Per una nuova Cultura Pastorale: Il Contributo di Amoris Laetitia San Paolo 2019 41-59.
“Le questioni teologiche morali più rilevanti per affrontare i problemi nel dibattito globale degli ultimi trenta anni,” Teologia 44 (2019) 194-210.
“Integrare la vulnerabilità per combattere gli abusi,” Aggiornamenti Sociali (August-September, 2019) 562-572.
“Hospitality: Interpreting Lúcás Chan’s work through a Timely, Biblical Virtue from the Book of Ruth,” Michael Cover, John Thiede, and Joshua Burns, ed. Bridging Scripture and Moral Theology: Essays in Dialogue with Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan, S.J. (Lanham Books, 2019) 3-22.
“Pursuing Ethics By Building Bridges Beyond the Northern Paradigm,” Religions 10 (2019) 10(8), 490 1-14; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10080490
“Blessed are the Poor in Spirit: A Response to Homelessness by a Reading of Matthew’s Beatitudes” Street Homelessness and Catholic Theological Ethics (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2019) 176-186.
“Vulnerability and Hierarchicalism,” Melita Teologica 68.2 (2018)* 129-142 *this was published in Sept 2019 though the issue was predated, 2018.