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James F. Keenan

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PhD Theology University of Chicago
Bachelors Philosophy Boston College

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According to Wikipedia, James F. Keenan is a moral theologian, bioethicist, writer, and the Canisius Professor of theology at Boston College. Career Keenan has been a Jesuit of the New York Province since 1970 and an ordained priest since 1982. He received his B.A. at Fordham University in the Bronx, NY, in 1976, after which he pursued his Masters in Divinity at the Weston School of Theology in Cambridge, MA. After receiving his M.Div. and ordination in 1982, James Keenan went on to study at the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, receiving his S.T.L in 1984 and his S.T.D. in 1988.

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The Function of the Principle of Double Effect (1993) (54)
Proposing Cardinal Virtues (1995) (46)
A History of Catholic Moral Theology in the Twentieth Century: From Confessing Sins to Liberating Consciences (2010) (35)
Jesus and Virtue Ethics: Building Bridges between New Testament Studies and Moral Theology (2002) (32)
The context of casuistry (1995) (32)
Catholic ethicists on HIV/AIDS prevention (2000) (25)
Goodness and Rightness in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae (1992) (23)
"Whose perfection is it anyway?": a virtuous consideration of enhancement. (1999) (20)
What is morally new in genetic manipulation? (1990) (20)
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context: Learning from the Sex Abuse Scandal in the Catholic Church (2005) (18)
Prophylactics, Toleration, and Cooperation: Contemporary Problems and Traditional Principles (1989) (17)
The Moral Sense (1995) (17)
Breaking the Conspiracy of Silence: Christian Churches and the Global AIDS Crisis (2006) (14)
Attitudes to genetic engineering: Japanese and international comparisons (1993) (14)
Current Theology Note Christian Perspectives on the Human Body (1994) (12)
The Open Debate: Moral Theology and the Lives of Gay and Lesbian Persons (2003) (12)
Applying the Seventeenth-Century Casuistry of Accommodation to HIV Prevention (1999) (11)
The Concept of Sanctity of Life and Its Use in Contemporary Bioethical Discussion (1996) (11)
Calling for justice throughout the world : Catholic women theologians on the HIV/AIDS pandemic (2008) (9)
Notes on Moral Theology: Ethics and the Crisis in the Church (2005) (9)
Shaping the Moral Life: An Approach to Moral Theology (2000) (9)
Virtues for ordinary Christians (1996) (9)
The Machine in the Body: Ethical and Religious Issues in the Bodily Incorporation of Mechanical Devices (2008) (8)
Dualism in medicine, Christian theology, and the aging (1996) (8)
The Return of Casuistry (1996) (8)
Impasse and Solidarity in Theological Ethics (2013) (8)
The principle of cooperation. Theologians explain material and formal cooperation. (1995) (8)
• Notes on Moral Theology • (2012) (7)
Institutional Cooperation and the Ethical and Religious Directives (1997) (7)
The Priority of Prudence: Virtue and Natural Law in Thomas Aquinas and the Implications for Modern Ethics (1994) (7)
Moral Theology Out of Western Europe (1998) (6)
Moral Wisdom: Lessons and Texts from the Catholic Tradition (2004) (6)
29. Jesuit Casuistry Or Jesuit Spirituality? The Roots Of Seventeenth-Century British Puritan Practical Divinity (1999) (6)
Catholic theological ethics in the world church : the plenary papers from the first cross-cultural conference on Catholic theological ethics (2007) (6)
Vatican II and Theological Ethics (2013) (6)
Distinguishing Charity as Goodness and Prudence as Rightness: A Key to Thomas’s Secunda Pars (2017) (6)
Virtue Ethics and Sexual Ethics (2005) (6)
Towards an Inclusive Vision for Moral Theology Part II: An Agenda for the Future (2000) (5)
The Bodily Incorporation of Mechanical Devices: Ethical and Religious Issues (Part 1) (2007) (5)
Receiving Amoris Laetitia (2017) (5)
Can We Talk? Theological Ethics and Sexuality (2007) (5)
Developments in bioethics from the perspective of HIV/AIDS. (2005) (5)
Notes on Moral Theology: Fundamental Moral Theology at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century (2006) (5)
Ten Reasons why Thomas Aquinas is Important for Ethics Today (1994) (5)
University Ethics: How Colleges Can Build and Benefit from a Culture of Ethics. Author's Response (2017) (4)
Crises and Other Developments (2008) (4)
Quaestio Disputata: Did John Paul II's Allocution on Life-Sustaining Treatments Revise Tradition? (2006) (4)
Roman Catholic Christianity—Embodiment and Relationality: Roman Catholic Concerns about Transhumanist Proposals (2014) (4)
Can a wrong action be good? The development of theological opinion on erroneous conscience (1993) (4)
Are Informationes Ethical (2013) (3)
Book Review: Power, Value, and Conviction: Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age (2000) (3)
Taking Aim at the Principle of Double Effect: Reply to Khatchadourian (1988) (3)
Raising Expectations on Sin (2016) (3)
Redeeming Conscience (2015) (3)
RETHINKING HUMANITY’S PROGRESS IN LIGHT OF COVID-19 (2020) (3)
Linking Human Dignity, Vulnerability and Virtue Ethics (2020) (3)
Making Sense of Eighty Years of Theological Ethics (2019) (3)
Ethics of the word : voices in the Catholic Church today (2010) (2)
Contemporary Contributions to Sexual Ethics (2010) (2)
Caroline Casuistry: The Cases of Conscience of Fr Thomas Southwell, SJ (2013) (2)
The World at Risk: Vulnerability, Precarity, and Connectedness (2020) (2)
Genetic Research and the Elusive Body (1995) (2)
A Summons to Promote Professional Ethics in the Academy (2013) (2)
REGARDING AMORIS LAETITIA: ITS LANGUAGE, ITS RECEPTION, SOME CHALLENGES, AND AGNOSTICISM OF SOME OF THE HIERARCHY (2021) (2)
Compelling Assent: Magisterium, Conscience and Oaths (1991) (2)
Not an Excessive Claim, Nor a Divisive One, But a Traditional One: A Response to Lawrence Welch on Immediate Material Cooperation (2000) (2)
Notes on Moral Theology: Moral Theology and History (2001) (2)
Perfecting ourselves: on Christian tradition and enhancement. (2007) (2)
Virtue, Grace and the Early Revisionists of the Twentieth Century (2010) (2)
What's New in the Ethical and Religious Directives? (1998) (2)
Coming Home: Ethics and the American University (2014) (2)
Introduction to Christian Ethics: A Reader (1991) (2)
The Color Line, Race, and Caste: Structures of Domination and the Ethics of Recognition (2021) (2)
The Language of Human Rights and Social Justice in the Face of HIV-AIDS (2004) (2)
Prophetic Pragmatism and Descending to Matters of Detail (2018) (2)
Book Review: Petrusek, R. Matthew and Jonathan Rothchild (eds): Value and Vulnerability: An Interfaith Dialogue on Human Dignity (2021) (2)
Book Review: Right Practical Reason: Aristotle, Action, and Prudence in Aquinas (1995) (1)
Forum: Crisis in the Church. Tapping Boston's Talent (2004) (1)
Reply to Beckwith: Abortion—Whose Agenda Is It Anyway? (1992) (1)
How scripture is to be performed in bioethics? (2005) (1)
Human gene therapy: an ethical advance? (1990) (1)
Book Review: The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism (2001) (1)
The Casuistry of John Major: Nominalist Professor of Paris (1506-1531) (1993) (1)
Openness, with Caution and Suspicion, About Human Enhancement (2017) (1)
Catholic Theological Ethics Past, Present, and Future: The Trento Conference (2011) (1)
Confidentiality, disclosure, and fiduciary responsibility (1993) (1)
The Bodily Incorporation of Mechanical Devices: Ethical and Religious Issues (Part 2) (2007) (1)
Fundamental Moral Theology: Tradition (2009) (1)
Theology and Peace in Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2020) (1)
Church politics and HIV prevention: why is the condom question so significat and so neuralgic (2013) (1)
Towards an Inclusive Vision for Moral Theology (1999) (1)
The case for physician-assisted suicide? (1998) (1)
What Happened at Trento 2010? (2011) (1)
Cooperation and “Hard Cases” (1998) (1)
Theologians meet to reflect on India ' s moral issues (2017) (0)
Book Review: Natural and Divine Law: Reclaiming the Tradition for Christian Ethics (2000) (0)
Influencing Business Education (1993) (0)
Book Review: The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (1998) (0)
Book Review: The Idea of Natural Rights: Studies on Natural Rights, Natural Law, and Church Law, 1150–1625 (1998) (0)
Book Review: Responsibility and Atonement (1990) (0)
Pursuing Ethics by Building Bridges beyond the Northern Paradigm (2019) (0)
Street Homelessness and Catholic Theological Ethics (2019) (0)
Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education (2004) (0)
Heritage Hokitika oral history project (0)
Book Review: The Poetics of Intimacy and the Problem of Sexual Abstinence (2001) (0)
John Mair’s Moral Theology and its Reception in the 16th Century (2015) (0)
Books Received (2003) (0)
Books received (2000) (0)
Reports: Ethicists Meet: "Not the Usual Suspects" (2011) (0)
Book Review: What Did Jesus Mean? Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts (2003) (0)
BISHOPS AND STRUCTURES OF ACCOUNTABILITY : AN ETHICAL PERSPECTIVE (2009) (0)
The International AIDS Conference in Bangkok: two views. (2004) (0)
AIDS education. Getting sex taped. (1993) (0)
Book Review: Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships (1993) (0)
Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives (2014) (0)
Roman Catholic ChristianityâEmbodiment and Relationality (2014) (0)
Notes on Moral Theology: 1992 (1993) (0)
Cooperation and "hard cases." Part 1: cooperation pro and con. (1998) (0)
Book Review: Evil and Suffering in Jewish Philosophy (1997) (0)
The Taiwan business primer (1991) (0)
The Bible and Ethics (2021) (0)
From Teaching Confessors to Guiding Lay People: The Development of Catholic Moral Theologians from 1900—1965 (2008) (0)
Trying to Capture, Cautiously, the O'Malley Style (2022) (0)
"Help must first come from the divine:" a response to Fr. George Eber's claim of the so-called incommensurability of Orthodox and non-Orthodox Christian bioethics. (1995) (0)
Social Trust and the Ethics of Our Institutions in advance (2022) (0)
Book Review: “Practical Divinity”: The Works and Life of Revd Richard Greenham (1999) (0)
The Renewal of Moral Theology (2020) (0)
Book Review: Martínez, SJ. J. Julio: Consciencia, discernimiento y verdad (2020) (0)
Josef Fuchs at Eighty, Defending the Conscience while Writing from Rome (1993) (0)
Notes on Moral Theology Fundamental Moral Theology at the Beginning of the New Millennium: Looking Back, Looking Forward (2004) (0)
How Multicultural Are We? Six Stories (2013) (0)
Books Received (2017) (0)
Moral Horizons in Health Care: Reproductive Technologies and Catholic Identity (1997) (0)
Book Review: Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism (1993) (0)
Book Review: Eloge de la conscience (1995) (0)
Another Reason to Bring Cancer into the Realm of Global Public Health: The Insularity of Cancer Patients and How Global Public Health Might Get Them Better Connected (2022) (0)
The Examined Life (1991) (0)
John T., Jr Noonan, .A Church That Can and Cannot Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005. xiv+298 pp. $30.00 (cloth); $18.00 (paper). (2007) (0)
Ethical analysis and the facts. (2003) (0)
Architecture in Ulster, 1972-1997 (2003) (0)
The evolution of the works of mercy (2017) (0)
The Need for a Broader Vision of Moral Teaching: A Response to R. J. Barrett (1994) (0)
Yes, a Catholic College Can Exist. (2007) (0)
The Scandal of Mercy. (2016) (0)
Book Review: Sin: A History (2011) (0)
HIV/AIDS: the expanding ethical challenge (2013) (0)
Letters, Notes, & Comments (1999) (0)
Schuessler, Rudolf: The Debate on Probable Opinions in the Scholastic Tradition (2021) (0)
Educating Language Minority Students: Laws, Regulations, Policies and Guidelines in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. (1992) (0)
College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics: The Lives and Longings of Emerging Adults by Jennifer Beste, and: Faith with Benefits: Hookup Culture on Catholic Campuses by Jason King (review) (2019) (0)
Vulnerable to Contingency (2020) (0)
Book Review: The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning (1989) (0)
Unexpected Consequences A Jesuit and Puritan Book, Robert Persons's Christian Directory, and Its Relevance for Jesuit Spirituality Today (2013) (0)
Restoring Social Trust: From Populism to Synodality (2023) (0)
AIDS, Gays, and the American Catholic Church. By Smith Richard L.. Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1994. xiv + 168 pages. $14.95 (paper). (1995) (0)

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