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Jean Porter

Religious Studies

#2320

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#5061

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#801

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Theology

#1621

World Rank

#3914

Historical Rank

#506

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PhD Theology University of Notre Dame
Masters Theology University of Notre Dame
Bachelors Theology University of Notre Dame

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According to Wikipedia, Jean Porter is an American theologian, currently the John A. O'Brien Endowed Professor of Theology at University of Notre Dame. To date, she has written "numerous articles and six books on the history of the Christian moral tradition and its contemporary relevance".

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Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of the Natural Law (2004) (78)
The recovery of virtue : the relevance of Aquinas for Christian ethics (1990) (76)
RESPONSIBILITY, PASSION, AND SIN A Reassessment of Abelard's Ethics (2000) (39)
Moral Action and Christian Ethics (1995) (31)
Basic Goods and the Human Good in Recent Catholic Moral Theology (2017) (28)
The Recovery of Virtue (1990) (26)
Mencius and Aquinas: Theories of Virtue and Conceptions of Courage (1992) (24)
From Natural Law to Human Rights: Or, Why Rights Talk Matters (1999) (22)
JUSTICE, EQUALITY, AND NATURAL RIGHTS CLAIMS: A RECONSIDERATION OF AQUINAS'S CONCEPTION OF RIGHT (2015) (22)
Individuality, Personal Identity, and the Moral Status of the Preembryo: A Response to Mark Johnson (1995) (21)
Natural and Divine Law (1999) (15)
De Ordine Caritatis: Charity, Friendship, and Justice in Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae (2017) (14)
The Search for a Global Ethic (2001) (14)
Alasdair MacIntyre: Tradition in the Recent Workof Alasdair MacIntyre (2003) (13)
The Subversion of Virtue: Acquired and Infused Virtues in the "Summa theologiae" (1992) (13)
“Direct” and “Indirect” in Grisez's Moral Theory (1996) (12)
Desire for God: Ground of the Moral Life in Aquinas (1986) (11)
Openness and Constraint: Moral Reflection as Tradition-Guided Inquiry in Alasdair MacIntyre's Recent Works (1993) (10)
Ministers of the Law: A Natural Law Theory of Legal Authority (2010) (10)
Does the Natural Law Provide a Universally Valid Morality (2009) (9)
Unborn Persons: Pope John Paul II and the Abortion Debate@@@The Right to Life Movement and Third Party Politics (1989) (8)
A tradition of civility: the natural law as a tradition of moral inquiry (2003) (7)
Christian Ethics and the Concept of Morality: A Historical Inquiry (2006) (6)
Torture and the Christian conscience: a response to Jeremy Waldron (2008) (6)
Moral Language and the Language of Grace: The Fundamental Option and the Virtue of Charity (1997) (6)
What is morally distinctive about genetic engineering? (1990) (6)
Virtue ethics in the medieval period (2013) (5)
The Nature of Customary Law: Custom, ordinance and natural right in Gratian's Decretum (2007) (5)
Thought’s Ego in Augustine and Descartes (1996) (4)
Natural Law as a Scriptural Concept (2002) (4)
Focus Introduction: Taking the Measure of Jonathan Edwards for Contemporary Religious Ethics (2003) (4)
Right Reason and the Love of God:: The Parameters of Aquinas’ Moral Theology (2010) (4)
Reason, Nature, and the End of Human Life: A Consideration of John Finnis's "Aquinas" (2000) (3)
Christianity, Divine Law and Consequentialism (1995) (3)
Making Sense of Humanity: And Other Philosohical Papers, 1982-1993 (1996) (3)
Virtue and Sin: The Connection of the Virtues and the Case of the Flawed Saint (1995) (3)
Moral Mistakes, Virtue and Sin: The Case of Othello (2005) (3)
Chastity as a virtue (2005) (3)
A descriptive study of agriculture teachers' awareness of biotechnology and the future of biotechnology education in Illinois (2007) (3)
Why Are the Habits Necessary? An Inquiry into Aquinas’s Moral Psychology (2013) (3)
Comments on Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Justice: Rights and Wrongs (2010) (2)
Moral Passions: A Thomistic Interpretation of Moral Emotions in Nonhuman and Human Animals (2014) (2)
Virtues and Vices (2012) (2)
Making Common Cause with Men and Women of Our Age: A Thomist Perspective (2012) (2)
Theology and Public Philosophy: Four Conversations (2012) (2)
Natural Equality: Freedom, Authority and Obedience in Two Medieval Thinkers (2001) (2)
Eudaimonism and Christian Ethics (2019) (2)
The Desire for Happiness and the Virtues of the Will (2014) (2)
Moral Reasoning, Authority, and Community in "Veritatis splendor" (1995) (2)
Divine Commands, Natural Law, and the Authority of God (2014) (2)
Review: Recent Studies in Aquinas's Virtue Ethic: A Review Essay (1998) (2)
At the limits of liberalism: Thomas Aquinas and the prospects for a Catholic feminism (2017) (1)
Trajectories in Christian Ethics (2007) (1)
A Response to Brian Linnane and David Coffey (1997) (1)
Choice, Causality, and Relation: Aquinas’s Analysis of the Moral Act and the Doctrine of Double Effect (2015) (1)
Book Review: Action and Conduct: Thomas Aquinas and the Theory of Action (1999) (1)
Nature, Normative Grammars, and Moral Judgments (2013) (1)
The Natural Law and Innovative Forms of Marriage: A Reconsideration (2010) (1)
A Response to Martin Rhonheimer (2006) (1)
The Natural Law and the Normative Significance of Nature (2013) (1)
Book Review: Natural Law and Practical Reason: A Thomist View of Moral Autonomy (2001) (1)
scottish journal of theology indispensable role in the work of presenting the Christian message as truth for everyone, however inadequately grasped (2009) (0)
The Disfigured Face: Traditional Natural Law and its Encounter with Modernity – By Luis Cortest (2009) (0)
Book Review: David Decosimo, Ethics as a Work of Charity: Thomas Aquinas and Pagan Virtue (2017) (0)
A Response to Charles Pinches (2003) (0)
Dispositions of the Will (2013) (0)
Lee Yearley, MENCIUS AND AQUINAS: THEORIES OF VIRTUE AND CONCEPTIONS OF COURAGE (VOL. II) (2020) (0)
Virtue, Perfection, and Reason (2018) (0)
Book Review: Acts amid Precepts: The Aristotelian Logical Structure of Thomas Aquinas's Moral Theory (2003) (0)
Fulvio Di Blasi, .God and the Natural Law: A Rereading of Thomas Aquinas. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s, 2006. xxi+264 pp. $37.50 (cloth). (2007) (0)
The Architecture of Law: Rebuilding Law in the Classical Tradition. By Brian M. McCall. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018. Pp. 612. $70.00 (cloth). ISBN: 9780268103330. (2020) (0)
Book Review: Knowing the Natural Law: From Precepts and Inclinations to Deriving Oughts. By Steven J. Jensen (2016) (0)
The System of Fairness Overrides Integrity: How the strings of civil service affect law enforcement (2018) (0)
Human Need and Natural Law (1997) (0)
Joseph Pilsner The Specification of Human Action in St Thomas Aquinas. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). Pp. xi+273. ISBN 0 19 928605 1. (2007) (0)
Book Review: The Call to Personhood: A Christian Theory of the Individual in Social Relationships (1992) (0)
Book Review: Moral Passion and Christian Ethics by Robin Gill (2022) (0)
Book Review: Curran, Charles: Diverse Voices in Modern U.S. Moral Theology (2019) (0)
Book Review:Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry: Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition Alasdair MacIntyre (1992) (0)
20. Virtues and Vices (2012) (0)
Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives (2014) (0)
Moral Virtues, Charity, and Grace: Why the Infused and Acquired Virtues Cannot Co-Exist (2019) (0)
Does the Law Matter? Legal Integrity and the Rule of Law as Intrinsic Values (2011) (0)
Dispositions of the Will (2013) (0)
A Response to Walter Principe (2013) (0)
Francis Oakley, .Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights: Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of Ideas. New York: Continuum, 2005. 143 pp. $34.95 (cloth). (2007) (0)
About the Père Marquette Lecture Series (2018) (0)
Virtudes perennes y virtudes contingentes: sabiduría práctica, fortaleza y templanza. (1987) (0)
Book Review: After Christendom? How the Church is to Behave if Freedom, Justice and a Christian Nation are bad Ideas (1992) (0)
Law (2018) (0)
Habits and Virtues of the Will (2018) (0)
Action and intention (2009) (0)
Religion and the Common Good: Catholic Contributions to Building Community in a Liberal Society By Brian Stiltner: Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. 203 pp. $29.95 (2002) (0)
Letters, Notes, & Comments (1999) (0)
Complete List of the Père Marquette Lectures in Theology (2018) (0)
Book Review: Aquinas on Virtue: A Causal Reading. By Nicholas Austin (2018) (0)
Contingency and Fortune in Aquinas's Ethics By John Bowlin Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999. 234 pp. $59.95 (2000) (0)
For the Life of the World: Some Reflections (2021) (0)
Habits as Principles of Action (2018) (0)
What the Wise Person Knows: Natural Law and Virtue in Aquinas' Summa Theologiae (1999) (0)
Robert Merrihew Adams, A Theory of Virtue: Excellence in Being for the Good (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), pp. ix + 249. £25.00 (hardback). (2010) (0)
Concluding Remarks on Infused and Acquired Virtues (2018) (0)
Passion, Reason and the Virtues as Perfecting Habits (2023) (0)
Pagan Virtue: An Essay in Ethics by John Casey (review) (2017) (0)
San Francisco, The Cool, Gray City of Love (1981) (0)
Book Reviews : Aquinas on the Twofold Human Good: reason and happiness in Aquinas' moral science, by Denis J. M. Bradley. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press (London: Eurospan), 1966. 472 pp. hb. £39.95. ISBN 0-8132-0861-0 (1999) (0)
Universalism Vs. Relativism: Making Moral Judgments in a Changing, Pluralistic, and Threatening World (2006) (0)

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