Curriculum Vitae STEPHEN J. POPE December 2010 Home Address: 39 Kenneth Street, West Roxbury, MA 02132 617-325-1936 popest@bc.edu Position: Professor, Department of Theology Boston College Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02167 (617) 552-3892 (w) Academic Competence: Education: Research topics: Justice and charity in Thomas Aquinas Natural law theories Forgiveness, truth and reconciliation Evolutionary theory and Christian ethics Broad areas of competence: Fundamental moral theology Christian social ethics Science and ethics B.A. Gonzaga University, Philosophy and Theology, 1977 M.A. University of Chicago, Divinity, 1983 Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1988, Ethics and Society Dissertation: "The Contributions of Contemporary Biological Anthropology to Recent Roman Catholic Interpretations of Love" (advisor: J. Gustafson) Academic Positions: Present: Professor, 2006-present Past: Associate Professor (tenured), 1994-present Assistant Professor, Theology Department, Boston College, 1988-1994 Instructor of Theology, St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, MN, 1984-88 Courses Taught: Undergraduate: Person and Social Responsibility I and II (core) Introduction to Christian Theology I and II (core) Prophets and Peacemakers (elective) The Challenge of Justice (elective)
The Challenge of Peace (elective) Graduate: Christian Social Ethics The Theological Virtue of Charity Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation Ethics of Aquinas Professional Memberships: Society of Christian Ethics Catholic Theological Society of America Awards and Grants: Fellow, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University, Pursuit of Happiness Seminar, 2007-2010 Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, School of Medicine, Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio, Course Award 2005 ( for TH555, Love and Human Nature) Honorary Membership, Golden Key International Honor Society, 2003-2004 John Templeton Foundation Science and Religion Course Award 2001 Boston College Faculty Fellowship Leave, fall semester, 1999 John Templeton Oxford Seminars Grant, 1999-2001 John Templeton Foundation Science and Religion Course Competition Award 1998 Boston College Research Incentive Grant 1998-99 Boston College Research Expense Grant 1997-98 Boston College Faculty Fellowship, spring semester leave, 1992-93 Boston College Nominee, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend Program, 1991-92 Jesuit Institute Stipend, Boston College, 1990-91 Boston College Research Incentive Grant, 1990-91 Boston College Nominee, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend Program. 1990-91 Boston College Research Expense Grant, 1989 Service: Executive Committee, Theology Department, fall of 2010-present Editorial Board, European Journal for the Study of Science and Theology, 2004-2008 Chair, Department of Theology, June 2000-June 2003 Society of Christian Ethics, Board of Directors, 2001-2004 Director, Undergraduate Studies, Theology Department, 1996-2000 University Search Committee, Dean of Arts and Sciences, 1998-99 Executive Committee, Theology Department, 1993-95, 1996-present Curriculum Committee, Theology Department, 1992-94, 1996-2000, 2004-present Convener, Faculty Seminar, Preferential Option for the Poor, 1996-98 Faith, Peace, and Justice Program Advisory Board, 1992-present Committee on the Development of the Graduate Program in Theology, Theology Department, 1996-97 Educational Policy Committee, Institute for Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry, 1992-94 Policy and Admissions Committee, Boston College/Weston School of Theology Ph.D. Program in Theological Ethics, 1992-present
Boston Theological Institute, Certificate Faculty Committee, Certificate in Science and Religion Program, 1996-present Publications: Books: The Evolution of Altruism and the Ordering of Love (Georgetown University Press, 1994) Finding God in All Things: Essays in Honor of Michael J. Buckley, S.J., co-edited with Michael J. Himes (Crossroad Publishers, 1996) The Ethics of Aquinas, editor (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2002) Sic et Non: Exploring Dominus Iesus, co-editor with Charles Hefling (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Press, 2002) Common Calling: The Laity and the Governance of the Church, editor (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2004) Human Evolution and Christian Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007) Solidarity and Hope: Jon Sobrino s Challenge to the Christian Theology, editor (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Press, 2008) Books: In Process: Your Neighbor as Yourself: Relating Charity and Justice in Christian Ethics Relating justice to love of God, self, and neighbor Religion, Justice, and Reconciliation: The Struggle for Peace with Justice Analysis of truth and reconciliation commissions The Fullness of Life: The Science of Well-Being and the Ethics of Virtue Analysis of scientific studies on well-being in relation to theological treatments of happiness (for faculty seminar at Program on Religion and Law, Emory University) Publications: Articles Published in Scholarly Journals: "Love, Moral Values, and Proportionalism: A Reply to Garth Hallett," Heythrop Journal 31 (1990):199-205. "The Moral Centrality of Natural Priorities: A Thomistic Alternative to 'Equal Regard,'" The Annual: The Society of Christian Ethics 1990 109-129. "Thomas Aquinas on Almsgiving, Justice, and Charity: An Interpretation and Assessment," Heythrop Journal 32 (1991):167-191. "Expressive Individualism and True Self-Love: A Thomistic Perspective, Journal of Religion 71 (1991):384-98. "The Order of Love and Recent Catholic Ethics: A Constructive Proposal," Theological Studies 52 (1991):255-288. "Agape and Human Nature: Contributions from Neo-Darwinism," Social Science Information 31 (1992):509-529. Anthologized in James B. Miller, ed., An Evolving Dialogue: Scientific, Historical, Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on Evolution (Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1998), pp. 421-440. "Proper and Improper Partiality and the Preferential Option for the Poor," Theological Studies 54 (June 1993):242-271. "The Preferential Option for the Poor: An Ethic for 'Saints and Heroes?'" Irish
Theological Quarterly 59 (1993):161-187. "Christian Love for the Poor: Almsgiving and the 'Preferential Option,'" Horizons 21/2 (Fall 1994):288-312. "Familial Love and Human Nature: Thomas Aquinas and Neo-Darwinism" American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 69 (Summer 1995):447-469. "Love in Contemporary Christian Ethics," Journal of Religious Ethics 23 (Spring 1995):167-197. "Neither Enemy nor Friend: Nature as Creation in the Theology of St. Thomas," Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 32 (Spring 1997):219-230. "Scientific and Natural Law Assessments of Homosexuality," Journal of Religious Ethics 25.1 (Spring 1997):89-126. "'Equal Regard' vs. 'Special Relations?' Reaffirming the Inclusiveness of Agape," Journal of Religion 77.3 (July 1997):353-379. Sociobiology and Human Nature: A Perspective from Catholic Theology, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 33 (June 1998):275-291. The Evolutionary Roots of Morality in Theological Perspective, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 33 (December 1998):545-556. Reprinted in James Miller, ed., The Epic of Evolution: Science and Religion in Dialogue (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004): 189-198. Response to Outka, Journal of Religious Ethics 26 (1998): 440-44. The Moral Primacy of Basic Respect, Cross Currents 49.1 (Spring 1999):54-62. Compassion and Self-Deception: The Unity of love and Truthfulness in Leo Tolstoy s The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics 19 (1999):115-129. The Violent Criminal: A Test Case for Love of Enemies, Josephinum Journal of Theology 6 (1999):124-131. E. O. Wilson as Moralist, Science and Engineering Ethics 6.3 (July 2000); also published as Engaging E. O. Wilson: Twenty-Five Years of Sociobiology, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 36/2 (June 2001):233-240. "Faithful and Compassionate Intelligence: The Goal of Service Learning in Catholic Colleges and Universities," The Journal of Peace and Justice Studies 11, no. 1 (2000):17-26. The Biological Roots of Personhood and Morality, Josephinum Journal of Theology 8/2 (Summer/Fall 2001):91-101. Catholic Social Thought and Civic Responsibility: The Importance of the Parish for the Public Square, The Journal for Peace and Justice Studies 12/1 (2002):1-25. Human Evolution and Moral Responsibility: Beyond the Free Will-Determinism Conundrum, Theoforum 38 (2002):365-389. The Convergence of Forgiveness and Justice: Lessons from El Salvador, Theological Studies 64 (December 2003):812-835. Accountability and Sexual Abuse in the United States: Lessons for the Universal Church, Irish Theological Quarterly 69.1 (2004):73-88. The Magisterium s Arguments against Same Sex Marriage: An Ethical Analysis and Critique, Theological Studies 65.3 (September 2004):530-65. Publications: Chapters and Other Contributions to Edited Volumes: "'To Re-establish All Things in Christ' (Eph. 1:10): Leo XIII on Political and Social Transformation," in Victor J. Klimoski and Mary Christine Athans, B.V.M., eds., In Service of the Church: Essays on Theology and Ministry (honoring Fr. Charles L. Froehle) (St. Paul, Mn: University of St. Thomas, 1993), pp. 41-60. "Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum," for The New Dictionary of Catholic Social Thought, ed. Judith Dwyer (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1994), pp. 828-844.
"Sociobiology" and "World, Responsibility for the," entries for The Harpercollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism, ed. Richard P. McBrien (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995), pp. 1338-1339 and pp. 1205-1206, respectively. "Knowability of the Natural Law: A Foundation for Ethics of the Common Good," Religion, Ethics, and the Common Good, ed. James Donahue and M. Theresa Moser, R.S.C.J. (Mystic, Conn: Twenty-Third Publications, 1996), pp. 53-63. "Descriptive and Normative Uses of Evolutionary Theory" in Christian Ethics: Problems and Prospects, ed. Lisa Sowle Cahill and James Childress (Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 1996), pp. 166-182. Natural Law and Christian Ethics, The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics, ed. Robin Gill (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 77-95. The Ordering of Love: Self, Others, and Sacrifice, for Stephen G. Post, ed., Empathy, Altruism, and Agape: Perspectives on Science and Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002). Catholic Social Thought and the American Experience, pp. 26-41 in Margaret O Brien Steinfels, ed., American Catholics and Civic Engagement: A Distinctive Voice (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004). Revised reprint of Catholic Social Thought and Civic Responsibility: The Importance of the Parish for the Public Square, The Journal for Peace and Justice Studies 12/1 (2002):1-25. "The Old Teleology and the New: An Experiment in Conversation," with Anthony Annunziato, for The Dialogue between Science and Relgion, ed. Patrick Byrne (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 2005), pp. 47-82. Introduction: The Laity and the Governance of the Church (25 pp) for Common Calling: The Laity and the Governance of the Church, ed. Stephen J. Pope (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2004), pp. 1-22. Primate Sociality and Natural Law Theory: A Case Study on the Relevance of Science for Ethics, in Robert Sussman and Audrey Chapman, eds., The Origins and Nature of Sociality (Hawthorne, N.Y.: Aldine, 2005), pp. 313-331. Natural Law in Catholic Social Teachings, Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations edited by Kenneth R. Himes, O.F.M. (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005), pp. 41-71. Reason and Natural Law, entry for The Oxford Handbook of Theological Ethics, ed. Gilbert Meilaender and William Werpehowski (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 148-67. Sex, Marriage, and Family Life: The Teachings of Nature, for John Witte, Jr., ed., Family Transformed: Religion, Values, and Society in American Life (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2005), pp. 52-70. The Impact on Religious Freedom by the Legal System s Treatment of Clerical Sexual Misconduct with Minors, co-authored with Patricia B. Carlson, for volume on Religious Organizations in the United states: A Study of Identity, Liberty, and the Law, ed. James A. Seritella (Chicago: DePaul University Press, 2006), pp. 633-67. Descriptions and Prescriptions: Proposed Remedies for a Church in Crisis, in Sexuality and the U.S. Catholic Church: Crisis and Renewal, ed., Lisa Sowle Cahill (New York: Crossroad, 2006), pp. 183-95. Love and Christian. Christianity entries for The New Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology, edited by Dawn DeVries and B. A. Gerrish (Westminster John Knox Press, forthcoming) Justice and Peace: Reintegration and Reconciliation of Returning Displaced Persons in Post-Conflict Situations, for David Hollenbach, S.J., ed., Refugee Rights: Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2008). The Place of Evolutionary Psychology in a Practical Theological Ethics of Families, in The Equal Regard Family and Its Friendly Critics, ed. John Witte, Jr., M.
Christian Green, and Amy Wheeler (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007), 56-68. Benedict XVI s Deus Caritas Est: An Ethical Analysis, Applied Ethics in a World Church: The Padua Conference, ed. Linda Hogan (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 2008) pp. 271-78. Our Brother s Keeper: Thomistic Friendship and Roger Burggraeve s Ethic of Responsibility, Responsibility, God and Society: Theological Ethics in Dialogue, ed. De Tavernier J., Selling J.A., Verstraeten J., Schotsmans P. (Peeters, 2008), 331-56. Darwinism and Moral Theology, in Louis Caruana, ed., Darwin and Catholicism: The Past and Present Dynamics of a Cultural Encounter (New York: T & T Clark, 2009), pp. 190-206. Poverty and Natural Law, Poverty and Morality: Religious and Secular Perspectives, ed. William A. Galston and Peter H. Hoffenberg, eds. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 265-84. Immersion Trips: The Case of El Salvador, in Thomas Rausch, ed., Education for Faith and Justice: Catholic Higher Education Today (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2010), 127-142. Tradition and Innovation in Natural Law / Tradizione e innovazione nella legge naturale: Un interpretazione tomista, Concilium XLVI (Italian version) (March 2010), 26-37. Social Selection and Sexual Diversity: Implications for Christian Ethics, in God, Science, Sex, Gender: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Christian Ethics, ed. Patricia Beattie Jung and Anna Marie Vigen (University of Illinois Press, 2010), 187-200. Catholic Social Teaching on Citizenship and Solidarity: Advocacy for a More Inclusive Vision, Grace and Truth: A Journal of Catholic Reflection for Southern Africa 27.2 (2010):55-66. Restorative Justice as a Prophetic Path to Peace, Catholic Theological Society of America Proceedings 65 (2010):19-34. Should Christian Contributions to Transitional Justice Focus on Reconciliation? Learning from El Salvador, in Jennifer J. Llewellyn and Daniel Philpott, eds., Restorative Justice and Reconciliation: Twin Frameworks for Peacemaking (under review, forthcoming) Christian Love as Friendship: Engaging the Thomistic Tradition, Love and Christian Ethics: Engagement with Tradition, Theory, and Society, ed. Frederick Simmons and Brian Sorrells, forthcoming Should Christian Contributions to Transitional Justice Focus on Reconciliation? Lessons from El Salvador, Public Forgiveness, ed. Bas von Stokkum, Nijmegan Moral Decision-Making: Interpreters of Darwin and Thomas Aquinas, in Understanding Moral Sentiments from a Darwinian Perspective, ed. Susan Neiman and Hilary Putnam, (Harvard University Press, forthcoming) Agape, International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette (Malden: Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming) Publications, Popular: "Interpreting Christian Love for the Poor: John Chrysostom, Thomas Aquinas, and Gustavo Gutiérrez," Beacon 7 (1992):18-36. "You Can't Keep a Good Theory Down: The Battle over the Just War," Commonweal 120 (February 12, 1993):9-12. "The Preferential Option for the Poor," Boston College Magazine 52 (Spring 1993):33-37. "The Bible, Social Justice, and the Christian Life," Church World, October 8, 1993. "Labor and Leisure: A Catholic Perspective," in Labor and Leisure: A Look at
Contemporary Values, ed. Ruy O. Costa (Boston, Ma: Massachusetts Council of Churches, 1994), pp. 12-18. "Compassion for a Killer?" America, Nov. 9, 1996, pp. 13-16. "Compassion for a Killer? It's a Hard Message to Accept," Op-Ed page, Chicago Tribune November 20, 1996, p. 27. "What Did We Owe John Salvi?" Boston Globe, Focus Section, December 8, 1996, pp. D1, D5. "A Vocation for Catholic Higher Education," Commonweal, March 28, 1997, pp. 12-13. "Protecting the Guilty: Did John Salvi Deserve His Fate?" Commonweal, April 11, 1997, pp. 13-15. Faith and Reason, The Christian Century, September 9-16, 1998. A Scientist s Search for Comprehensive Knowledge, The Christian Century, November 4, 1998. The Politics of Apology and the Slaughter in Rwanda, America, March 6, 1999, pp. 8-10. The Relevance of Theology and the Vocation of the Lay Theologian: A Response to Christopher Ruddy, Commonweal, May 2000, pp. 11-13. Is It Forgivable? Focus Section, Sunday Boston Globe, June 25, 2000. Making Peace after Catastrophe: An Interview with Ivo Markovic, America, September 23, 2000, pp. 19-22. Can One Forgive a Child Molester? America, November 18, 2000, pp. 17-20. Christ and Darwin, Christian Century, January 2-9, 2002, pp. 26-32. Priestly Celibacy Nearing Its End, Boston Herald, March 27, 2002. Apology or Excuse? Parsing the Cardinals Words, Commonweal, June 1, 2002, pp. 9-10. The Vatican s Blunt Instrument, The London Tablet, August 9, 2003, pp. 4-5. Same-Sex Marriage: Threat or Aspiration? America Magazine, December 6, 2004, pp. 11-14. Transforming Moral Theology, Conversations, Summer 2007 Called to Love, America Magazine 198.15 (May 5, 2008):23-27. Book Reviews: Ethics in the Nuclear Age: Strategy, Religious Studies, and the Churches, ed., Todd Whitmore (Southern Methodist University Press, 1989) for Horizons 17 (Fall 1990): 364-365. Richard M. Gula, S.S., Reason Informed by Faith: Foundations of Catholic Morality (Paulist, 1989), Thomas F. Schindler, Ethics: The Social Dimension (Michael Glazier, 1989), and Ronald P. Hamel and Kenneth R. Himes, O.F.M., eds., Introduction to Christian Ethics: A Reader (Paulist, 1989), for Catholic World (June/July 1990). Robert W. McElroy, The Search for an American Public Theology: The Contribution of John Courtney Murray (Paulist, 1989), for Horizons 17 (Fall 1990): 360-362. Garth Hallett, Christian Neighbor-Love: An Assessment of Six Rival Versions (Georgetown, 1988) for Theological Studies 51 (March 1990): 183. Robert E. Lauder, God, Death, Art, and Love: The Philosophical Vision of Ingmar Bergman (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1989), for Living Light 28/2 (Winter 1992):194-195. L. Gregory Jones, Transformed Judgment: Toward a Trinitarian Account of the Moral Life (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990), for Theological Studies 52 (1991):784. Lee H. Yearley, Mencius and Aquinas: Theories of Virtue and Conceptions of Courage (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990), for Heythrop Journal 34
(1983):106-107. Hans Küng, Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic, for Lutheran Quarterly 6 (1992):108-110. Romanus Cessario, O.P., The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1991), Theological Studies 53 (1992):578-560. David E. DeCosse, ed., But Was It Just? Reflections on the Morality of the Persian Gulf War (N.Y.: Doubleday, 1992); James Turner Johnson and George Weigel, Just War and the Gulf War (Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1992); and Patricia McNeal, Harder than War: Catholic Peacemaking in Twentieth Century America (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990), for America 168, 14 (April 1993):26-29. Jean Porter, The Recovery of Virtue: The Relevance of Aquinas for Christian Ethics (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1990), for Journal of Religion 73 (1993):282-284. Paul Misner, Social Catholicism in Europe: From the Onset of Industrialization to the First World War (New York: Crossroad, 1991), for Journal of Religion 74 (January 1994):100. Paul J. Wadell, C.P., The Primacy of Love: An Introduction to the Ethics of Thomas Aquinas (New York: Paulist, 1992), in Theological Studies 54 (1993):202. Edmund N. Santurri and William Werpehowski, eds., The Love Commandments: Essays in Christian Ethics and Moral Philosophy (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1992), Theological Studies 55 (March 1994):182. James F. Keenan, S.J., Goodness and Rightness in Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1992), Theological Studies 55 (June 1994):360-362. William Schweiker, Responsibility and Christian Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995), for Theological Studies 57 (1996):558-560. John H. Beckstrom, Darwinism Applied: Evolutionary Paths to Social Goals (Westport, Conn, and London: Praeger, 1993) and Roger D. Masters, Beyond Relativism: Science and Human Values (Hanover, N.H., and London: University Press of New England, 1993), for Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 31 (March 1996):137-145. Alan Gewirth, The Community of Rights (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1996) Theological Studies 58 (1997):569-71. Diana Fritz Cates, Choosing to Feel (Notre Dame, In: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997) for Theological Studies 59 (1998):167-69. Denis J. M. Bradley, Aquinas on the Twofold Human Good: Reason and Human Happiness in Aquinas Moral Science (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 1997), Theological Studies 59 (1998): 542-44. Anthony J. Lisska, Aquinas Theory of Natural Law (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996), Cross Currents 48 (1998):411-413. Stephen Jay Gould, Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life (New York: Ballantine, 1999) in Christian Century (June 2-9, 1999), pp. 624-626. Lewis Petronovich, Darwinian Dominion: Animal Welfare and Human Interests (Cambridge and London: MIT, 1999) for Theological Studies 61 (March 2000):182-184. J. B. Schneewind, The Invention of Autonomy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998), for Theological Studies 61/3 (September 2000):579-581. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Respect: An Exploration (Reading, MA: Perseus Books, 1999), for Cross Currents 50/3 (Fall 2000):415-16. Review essay: John Polkinghorne, Faith, Science and Understanding (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000), Ian Barbour, When Science Meets Religion
(San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2000), and Michael Ruse, Can a Darwinian Be a Christian? (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), for Christian Century (February 1-14, 2001), pp. 38-45. Klaus Demmer, Shaping the Moral Life, trans. Roberto Dell Oro (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000), Theological Studies 62/2 (September 2001):635-637. Robert Pollack, The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000) and John F. Haught, God after Darwin (Boulder: Westview, 2000) for Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (forthcoming) John F. Kavanaugh, Who Counts as Persons? Human Identity and the Ethics of Killing. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2001. Josephinum Journal of Theology (forthcoming). Holmes Rolston III, Genes, Genesis, and God: Values and Their Origins in Natural and Human History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999) in Pro Ecclesia X/3 (Summer 2001):377-79. Review essay: Jean Porter, Natural and Divine Law: Reclaiming the Tradition for Chrstian Ethics (Grand Rapids and Cambridge, U.K.: Eerdmans, 2000), Journal of Law and Religion 16 (2001):101-110. Colin Grant, Altruism and Christian Ethics (New York: Cambridge University, 2001), Theological Studies 63 (June 2002):432. Aidan Nichols, O.P., Discovering Aquinas: An Introduction to his Life, Work and Influence (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2002), America Magazine, September 29, 2003, 26-27. John F. Haught, Deeper than Darwin: The Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution (Cambridge, MA: Westview, 2003), for Christian Century (July 13, 2004) 38-39. Diane Fozard Weaver, Self-Love and Christian Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), Theological Studies 65 (2004):232-33. Leo Elders, The Philosophy of Nature of St. Thomas Aquinas: Nature, the Universe, Man (Frankfurt am Main/New York: Peter Lang, 1997), Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 39.3 (September 2004):718-719. Stanley Hauerwas and Samuel Wells, eds., The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics (Malden: Blackwell, 2004) and William Schweiker, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics (Malden: Blackwell, 2005), in Theological Studies 67.4 (December 2006):905-908. Brian Davies, The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil (Continuum, 2007) for Commonweal Magazine, March 9, 2007, pp. 22-23. Pablo de Greiff. Ed., The Handbook of Reparations (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), for Theological Studies (forthcoming) Michael S. Northcott, A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming (Maryknoll: Orbis, 2007), for Commonweal Magazine (November 7, 2008):26-27. Too Big a Tent? Fergus Kerr s Twentieth Century Catholic Theologians: From Neoscholasticism to Nuptial Mysticism, Commonweal, vol. 135, no. 2, January 31, 2008, pp. 21-23. Anthony Bash, Forgiveness and Christian Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), for Theological Studies, forthcoming Neil Messer, Selfish Genes and Christian Ethics (London: SCM Press, 2007), for Ars Disputandi, 2009 Papers and Presentations (selected): academic: "The Significance of Contemporary Behavioral Biology to Recent Roman Catholic Accounts of Love," presented at Boston Theological Institute Ethics Group
meeting, Andover-Newton School of Theology, October 5, 1989 "Expressive Individualism and True Self-Love: A Thomistic Perspective," presented at Lonergan Mini-Workshop, November 10, 1989 "The Natural Basis of the Thomistic 'Order of Charity,'" presented at the Society of Christian Ethics Conference, January 1990 "Love of the Poor in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas" delivered at the June 1990 meeting of the College Theology Society, New Orleans, LA "Love for the Poor: From Almsgiving to the 'Preferential Option, " presented at the Jesuit Institute, Boston College, November 30, 1990 Presentation, "Human Origins and Theology: Some Initial Questions for Discussion," for Boston College Faculty Seminar, "The Question of Creation: Science, Philosophy, Theology," April 4, 1991 Response to Philip J. Chmielewski, S.J., "A Social Ethic for a Pluralist Culture: Oswald von Nell-Breuning, S.J. Roman Catholic Heritage and Contemporary Elaboration," Jesuit Institute, Boston College, May 2, 1991 Presentation and panel discussion, "Teaching the Introductory Course in Christian Ethics/Moral Theology" for the College Theology Society, Chicago, June 1991 "'To Re-Establish All Things in Christ' (Eph. 1:10): Leo XIII on Social Transformation," for the College Theology Society conference, Chicago, June 1991 "Some Questions Concerning the 'Preferential Option for the Poor,'" for the Lonergan Workshop, Boston College, June 20, 1991 "Agape and Human Nature: Contributions from Sociobiology," for the European Sociobiological Society, Prague, Czechoslovakia, August 30, 1991 "The Preferential Option for the Poor: From Moral Rhetoric to Theological Ethics" Jesuit Institute presentation, April 1992 "Evolution and 'Purposes' in the Nineteenth Century: T. H. Huxley and Henry Drummond," Faculty Seminar, God and the World of the Sciences, Jesuit Institute, March 25, 1993 "The Ordering of Beneficence," College Theology Society, St. Mary's College, Moraga, California, June 5, 1993 "Biological Connections and Familial Love: An Ethical Analysis of Parental Investment Theory," London School of Economics, Conference on "Evolution and the Human Sciences," June 25, 1993 "Sociality, Evolution, and the Family: A Thomistic Perspective," Religion, Culture, and the Family Project, University of Chicago, Palmer House, Chicago, IL, September 23, 1993 "The Old Teleology and the New," presentation for the Jesuit Institute Faculty Seminar on "God and the World of the Sciences," October 30, 1993 "Veritatis Splendor: The Issue of 'Autonomous Ethics' and 'Faith-Ethics'" for Jesuit Institute Moral Theology Faculty Seminar, December 13, 1993 "Social Intelligence and Ethical Relativism," European Sociobiological Society, Krems, Austria, August 27, 1994 "Knowability of the Natural Law: A Foundation for Ethics of the Common Good," Annual Convention of the College Theology Society, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass., June 3, 1995 "The 'Family-Work' Nexus and the Social Ethics of John A. Ryan," presented at Conference on John A. Ryan, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota, September 16, 1995 Response to Frederick Lawrence, "The Hermeneutic Revolution and Political Theology Today," December 2, 1995, Boston College "Neither Enemy Nor Friend: Nature as Creation in the Theology of St. Thomas," Sixth European Conference on Science and Theology, Pontifical Faculty of Theology, Krákow, Poland, March 19, 1996
Response to Prof. Elizabeth Johnson, "Frontiers of the Search for the Living God," October 30, 1996, Boston College "The Moral Necessity of Basic Respect," Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity, June 10, 1997 Sociobiology and Human Nature: An Assessment from Catholic Theological Ethics, Templeton Foundation Summer Workshop for Religion and Science, Congress Ramada Hotel, June 20, 1997 The Evolutionary Roots of Morality, for The Epic of Evolution Conference, sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, November 14, 1997, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL Roman Catholic Ethics since the Second Vatican Council, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, November 24, 1997 The Common Ground Project: Questions and Possibilities, Graduate Program, Theology Department, Boston College, December 12, 1997 Evolutionary Ecology and the Family, Symposium on Don S. Browning et al., From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1997), Vanderbilt University, February 26, 1998 Religion and Science: Contemporary Theological Perspectives, Doctoral Colloquium, School of Nursing, Boston College, March 18, 1998 Introduction: The Church and Welfare Reform, Jesuit Institute at Boston College, Symposium on Contemporary American Welfare Reform, March 18, 1998, Fulton Hall 511, Boston College The Person as Social Animal: Critique and Appropriation of Evolutionary Theories of the Origin of Morality, Seventh European Conference on Science and Theology, March 31, 1998, Durham, U.K. How Did and Does the Person Emerge? for Conference on Identity, Formation, Dignity: The Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science upon Jewish and Christian Understandings of Personhood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 30, 1998 The Significance of Natural Science for Theological Anthropology, Center for Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey, September, 1998 Roman Catholic Moral Theology since Vatican II, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, MA, October 20, 1998 Primatology and Theological Ethics: Problems and Prospects, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Seminar on Primatology and Human Nature, Washington, D.C., October 24, 1998 Compassion and Self-Deception: The Unity of Love and Truthfulness in Leo Tolstoy s The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Society of Christian Ethics, January, 1999, San Francisco, CA E. O. Wilson s Critique of Religion: A Critical Comment on Consilience, Human Behavior and Evolution Society, University of Utah, June 4, 1999 Evolution and Theological Ethics, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University, August 5, 1999 The Ordering of Love: Self, Others, and Sacrifice, for Conference on Empathy, Altruism, and Agape at University Park Hotel at M.I.T. on October 2, 1999, sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and the Fetzer Institute The Biological Roots of Morality, Seattle Pacific University, January 29, 2000 Faithful and Compassionate Intelligence: The Goal of Service Learning in Catholic Colleges and Universities, Loyola College of Baltimore, February 4, 2000 E. O. Wilson as Moralist, American Association for the Advancement of Science, February 20, 2000, Washington, D.C. Catholic Social Thought and Civic Engagement for American Catholics in the Public Square, Commonweal Foundation and Faith and Reason Institute Conference,
June 3, 2000. Response to Maureen O Brien, Languages for Communal and Public Discourse, Catholic Theological Society of America, San Jose, CA, June 10, 2000 Panel presentation on Kenneth Melchin, Living with Other People, Lonergan Workshop, Boston College, June 20, 2000 Evolutionary Ethics and Human Freedom, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University, August 5, 2000 Concluding Summary, Conference on Justice in Jesuit Higher Education. October 8, 2000, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California Catholic Social Thought and American Civic Engagement, St. Anselm College, Program on Religion in American Public Life, November 2, 2000 Freedom and Evolutionary Psychology, Society of Christian Ethics, January 5, 2001, Chicago, IL Implications of Evolutionary Theory for Christian Views of Human Freedom, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, England, July 30, 2001. Evolution, Free Will, and Responsibility, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario, November 30, 2001. Sociality in Humans and Other Primates, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, MA, February 15, 2002. Forgiveness and Justice: Contributions from Catholic Social Thought, Conference on the New New Things: Catholic Social Teachings and the Twenty-First Century, University of Notre Dame, April 4, 2002. Forgiveness and Justice and Offering Apologies, Seeking Forgiveness and Taking Responsibility: The Crisis in the American Church, Saint John s University, Collegeville, MN, August 2002 "The New 'New Things': Catholic Social Teaching and the Twenty-First Century" organized by the Program on Catholic Social Teaching at the University of Notre Dame, April 4-6, 2002 Sex, Marriage, and Family Life: The Teachings of Nature, Conference on Sex, Marriage and Family and the Religions of the Book, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion, Emory University, March 29, 2003 Evolutionary Theory and the Book of Scripture, Workshop on Science and Religion: The Book of Nature and the Book of Scripture, Ettore Majorana, Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Sicily, July 19, 2003 The Imago Dei after Darwin, Tenth European Conference on Science and Theology, April 4, 2004, Barcelona, Spain Forgiveness and Justice: Comments on Their Political Significance, Center on Law and Religion, Emory University, November 6, 2004 The Death Penalty in the Catholic Tradition, Panel on Inter-Religious Approaches to the Death Penalty, Sponsored by the Sant Edigio Community, Boston College, March 1, 2005 Responsibility and the Law: Law and Nature, Conference entitled Our Brains and Us: Neuroethics, Responsibility, and the Self, April 18, 2005, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (sponsored by AAAS) Human Dignity after Darwin, European Summer Academy of Bioethics, Heinrich Pesch Haus, Lugwigshafen, Germany, August 25, 2005 Moral Formation as Transformation, on panel concerning Formation of the Religious Conscience after the Shoah: Bonhoeffer s Spirituality for Today, Conference on Dietrich Bonhoeffer for Our Times: Jewish and Christian Perspectives, September 17, 2006, Center for Christian-Jewsh Learning at Boston College, United States Holocaust Museum, and Andover-Newton Theological School, at Berenson Hall, Hebrew College, Newton, MA Justice and Peace: Reintegration and Reconciliation of Returning Displaced Persons in
Post-Conflict Situations, Nairobi, Kenya, Conference on Forced Migration, Boston College Center for Human Rights, October 16, 2006 Stem Cells, Science, and Social Justice, February 10, 2007, Annual Boston College Bioethics Conference Stem Cells, Science, and Social Justice, Fordham University, Center for Ethics, April 15, 2007 Foundations of Ethics, Heinrich Pesch Haus, Ludwigshaufen, Germany, August 11-12, 2007 Workshop on Truth Commissions: Lessons for the Church, to Burundian Episcopal Conference, Gitega, Burundi, August 27-August 30, 2007 Human Sexuality, Catholic Intellectual Heritage, and Interdisciplinary Dialogue, September 27, 2007 for Consultation on Human Sexuality: A Dialogue Across Disciplines, Loyola University Chicago Religion, Well-being, and Community: A Thomistic Perspective Emory University, Center for Law and Religion, October 13, 2007 Homosexuality: Catholic Teachings, Fordham University, Program on Religion and Culture, October 23, 2007 Thomas Aquinas on Friendship, Villanova University, Program on Catholic Intellectual Heritage, November 29, 2007 Natural Law in Contemporary Catholic Moral Theology, Villanova University, Faculty colloquium, November 30, 2007 Happiness in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Emory University, April 10, 2008. Response to Daniel Philpott s Reconciliation: A Catholic Ethic for Peacebuilding in the Political Order, The Catholic Peacebuilding Network Conference, University of Notre Dame, April 14, 2008 Our Brother s Keeper: Thomistic Friendship and Burggraeve s Ethic of Responsibility, International Conference on Responsibility, God and Society: Theological Ethics in Dialogue, University of Leuven, Belgium, May 9, 2008. Jon Sobrino s Moral Vision, Catholic Theological Society of America, Miami, FL, June 8, 2008. Ethics after Darwin, Albertus Magnus Lecture, Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois, November 12, 2008 Human Evolution and Christian Ethics, Boisi Center for Religion and Public Life, March 31, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI s Caritas in Veritate, Boisi Center, October 8, 2009 Response to Cara Anthony, The Trinity and Social Transformation, Symposium in Honor of Michael J. Buckley, S.J., October 23-24, 2009 Moral Decision-Making: Interpreters of Darwin and Thomas Aquinas, for conference entitled, Understanding Moral Sentiments from a Darwinian Perspective: An exploration of the Roots and Complexity of Ethical Judgment, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, November 19-22, 2009 Justice and Reconciliation: Lessons from Latin America, for conference, Beyond Reconciliation: Dealing with the Aftermath of Mass Trauma and Political Violence, University of Cape Town, South Africa, Dec 1-6, 2009 Papers and Presentations (selected): popular: "Labor and Leisure in the Catholic Tradition," at forum entitled "Labor and Leisure: A Look at Contemporary Values," United Church of Christ Conference Center, sponsored by Massachusetts Council of Churches, Framingham, Mass., March 4, 1994 "What Is Christian Ethics?" Stratford Street United Church, West Roxbury, Mass.,
December 1, 1996 "Lenten Series on Catholicism," St. John Chrysostom Parish, West Roxbury, MA, March 2, 9, 16 1997 "The Gift of Life," Annual Diocese of Providence Religious Education Workshop Day, Bryant College, Smithfield, Rhode Island, March 15, 1997 "Principles of Catholic Ethics," Sacred Heart Parish, Lexington, MA, April 6, 1997 "Sin and Forgiveness," Stratford Street United Church, West Roxbury, Mass., April 13, 1997 The Concept of Respect, Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Norfolk, October 1, 1997 Family-Career Dilemmas and the Christian Faith, St. John Chysostom Parish, November 30, December 7, December 14, 1997 Ethics in the Workplace, Stratford Street United Church, October 17, 1999, West Roxbury, MA Forgiveness and Reconciliation, St. John Chrysostom Parish, West Roxbury, MA, March 26-28 Forgiveness as a Process, Temple Beth Israel, Needham, Mass., October 9, 2000 Sin and the Challenge of Forgiveness, Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Sharon, MA, March 15, 2001. Zacchaeus the Tax Collector, St. John Chrysostom Parish, West Roxbury, MA, March 3, 2001. Contemporary Views of Sin, Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Sharon, MA, September 27, 2001 Ash Wednesday Address, Roxbury Latin School, West Roxbury, MA, February 13, 2002 Forty Years After Vatican II, St. John Chrysostom Parish, West Roxbury, November 17, 2002 Dorothy Day on Service, Applacchia Volunteers, Boston College, February 10. 2003 Jesus as Healer, Our Lady of Sorrows Parish, Sharon, MA, February 10, 2003 The Church in Boston: Where Do We Go From Here? Winchester Voice of the Faithful, St. Eulalia s Parish, Winchester, MA, October 20, 2003 The Laity and the Governance of the Church, Voice of the Faithful, Parkway Branch, February 28, 2005 The Crisis of Sexual Abuse and the Catholic Church: Where Are We Now? Corpus Christi University Parish, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, October 25, 2005 Human Dignity and Catholic Ethics, Summer Academy of Bioethics, Heinrich Pesch Haus, Ludwigshaufen, Germany, August 20, 2006 Contemporary Relations between Religion and Science, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, MA., December 13, 2006 Spirituality and Social Change, School of Theology and Ministry, Boston College, April 2, 2009