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 History of Catholic Theological Ethics, Paulist Press, 2022
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 Color Line, Race and Caste: Structures of Domination and the Ethics of Recognition,” Theological Studies, 82.1 (2021) 69-94.
Rethinking Humanity’s Progress in Light of COVID-19Asian Horizons 14.3 (September 2020) 713-735
“The Community Colleges: Giving Them the Ethical Recognition They Deserve,” Journal Of Moral Theology 9.2 (2020) 143-164
“Chavarul, Virtue Ethics, andAmoris Laetitia,” Shaji George Kochuthara, ed., Vocation and Mission of the Family: Reflections on Chavarul and Amoris Laetitia, Bangalore: Dharmaram Publication, 2021) 34-48.
“Vulnerable to Contingency,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 40.2 (2021) 221-236.
徱Բ Amoris Laetitia: Its Language, Its Reception, Some Challenges, andthe Agnosticism of Some of the Hierarchy,” Perspectiva Teológica 53.1 (2021) 41-60. https://www.faje.edu.br/periodicos/index.php/perspectiva/article/view/4675/4605
“COVID-19 and Health Disparities: Structural Evil Unmasked,” with Philip Landrigan and Lilian Ferrer Annals of Global Health 86.1 (April 1, 2021) 1-5,
“Joe Biden und der Katholizismus in den USA,” Stimmen der Zeit 146 (2021) 355-364.
“Repensar a ética teológica:rumo a uma nova capacidade vulnerável depermanecer em solidariedade, esperança e justo reconhecimento,” José Antonio Trasferetti & Ronaldo Zacharias
ÉTICA TEOLÓGICA E PANDEMIAS: entre a razão e a urgência social
“Rethinking Humanity’s Progress in Light of Covid 19,” Asian Horizons 14.3 (2020)
713-735
“How Alphonsus’ Ministry to the Margins Formed his life as a Moral theologian Studia Morale 59.2 (2021) 277-282
“What Would AI Mean to Catholic Doctrine?” Cultura e Fede 29.3 (2021) 215-222
10 Theses on Democracy and COVID-19, Asian Horizons (2022) 115-128
Building Blocks for Moral Education: Vulnerability, Recognition and Conscience, David DeCosse and Kevin Baxter, ed. Conscience and Catholic Education: Theology, Administration, and Teaching (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2022) 17-30
“Hierarchicalism,” Theological Studies 83.1 (2022) 84-108
"Eight Ways that Amoris Laetitia is Being Received and Promoted around the World" INTAMS Marriage, Families & Spirituality 28 (2022) 4-17
“Grieving in the Upper Room: Vulnerability, Recognition, Conscience and the Holy Spirit,” Duquesne lecture
w. David, Kirchhoffer, Luca Valera, and Roberto Zoboli, “Recognizing and Responding to Vulnerability in the Time of COVID-19,” Aֱ Religion and Ethics (September 29, 2021) ;
“Overlooking Community Colleges and the Working Class,” Steve Cahn, ed. Academic Ethics Today: Problems, Policies, and Prospects for University Life (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022) 135-144