Jean Porter
Rank
Endowed Professor
Title
John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology
Fields
Moral Theology/Christian Ethics
Education
May 1984: Ph.D., Department of Religious Studies (with a specialization in ethics), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Dissertation: The Concept of Rational Agency in the Thought of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas (unpublished)
1981: M.A., Department of Religious Studies Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
1980: M.Div. (with distinction), Weston School of Theology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1976: B.A. in philosophy (summa cum laude), The University of Texas at Austin, Texas
Recent Publications
Ministers of the Law: A Natural Law Theory of Legal Authority (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2010, xvi + 368) Winner of a Catholic Press Association Book Award, 2011
Publications in Press
Altruism, Evolution, and Aristotelian Flourishing: An Unexpected Convergence,” Evolution, Games and God: The Principle of Cooperation, Sarah Coakley and Martin A. Novak, editors (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press), Fall 2011
“Happiness,” Cambridge Companion to the Summa Theologiae, Denys Turner and Philip McCosker, editors (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), Fall 2011
“Natural Law,” The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology, David Fergusson, et al editors (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), Fall 2011
“Virtues and Vices,” The Oxford Handbook to Thomas Aquinas, Brian Davies and Eleanor Stump, editors (Oxford: Oxford University Press) Spring 2011
Contact
431 Malloy Hall
574-631-6565
Jean.Porter.3@nd.edu