James F. Keenan
Biography
James F. Keenan has served as Canisius Professor at Boston College, and wrote Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention.
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Becoming Nonviolent Peacemakers
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Using the time-tested virtue approach to ethics, McCarthy helps us cultivate the dispositions, practices, and rules needed for nonviolent peace-building. But then, with virtue's ability to culturally adapt, he engages Hindu, Christian, and Muslim models, and proposes a contemporary, realistic vision. He translates this vision into the language of human rights so as to give it even more universal appeal. The result is an interreligious, comprehensive project of a new world order. A truly timely and engaging work!”
Created Freedom under the Sign of the Cross
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“DeCosse superbly indicts the way Americans use ‘freedom’ to legitimate a value-free exercise of personal privilege. . . . In the end, he makes the compelling case for a more socially valid, embodied, and equitable grasp of freedom that can empower us, individually and collectively, to responsibly pursue our goals as a people. A well-done and much-needed work.”
Encountering Artificial Intelligence
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“From March 2020 to June 2023 a group of twenty international scholars were invited to meet regularly and map out the promises and challenges of AI. They produced an astonishing text, worthy of course adoption for any Christian ethical investigation into AI. Divided into one part anthropology (who are we, what is AI, and how are we now related?) and one part ethics, (what are the pitfalls, promises, and social concerns?), the book is engaging, well-designed, and perfect for faculty looking for a foundational text.”
Ethics at the Heart of Higher Education
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Many, many years ago the presidents of the Ivies taught one course each year, the undergraduate’s ethics course; such was the university’s commitment for ethics to be in the heart of every university student. Rightly Kirk and Crespo and their colleagues remind us that the academy exists not just for its members, but for all. After years of marketing the university primarily for the sake of one’s own advancement, this collection helps us to restore the very goal of the academy’s mission. Hats off.”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“William T. Cavanaugh offers this stunning collection as a ‘global angle on a global crisis.’ With contributions from across the world, these perspectives further our understanding of the crisis that unfolds by the hour. The diversity of the contributors is marked not only by their own national backgrounds, but also by their own academic investigations . . . Cavanaugh beautifully organizes these essays beginning with the foundations of social teaching and the cry of the earth. A refreshing collection, a worthy read, an urgent project!”
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“This is the first commentary on Pope Francis’s encyclical on fraternity and social friendship, but it is hard to imagine it ever being surpassed. Such is the breadth and depth of this extraordinary work that stands as a genuinely worthy companion to an encyclical that powerfully calls us to recognize ourselves as children of the same God.”
History & Biography
“For several years now, Katie Walker Grimes has been asking questions about the church’s advancement of antiblackness supremacy. Now she looks at its iconography and saint-making to demonstrate its 'participation in black chattel slavery and its ongoing Pan-American afterlife.' Grimes is a powerful writer whose provocative argument will not be easily accepted, but she has a case here and it has long needed a hearing. Read it and see for yourself. This is tough work by a very significant scholar.”
History & Biography
“O'Loughlin's book is a work of resurrection. He unearths and brings to life lives long hidden, overlooked, and forgotten but so constitutive of the early struggle for hope, survival, dignity, and solidarity.”
Moral Issues and Christian Responses
Ethics, Culture & Social Issues
“Patricia Beattie Jung and Shannon Jung have edited a widely diverse and wonderfully engaging set of essays that ought to keep any ethics course talking. From Cardinal Avery Dulles, Walter Brueggemann, and Rowan Williams to Phyllis Trible, Cornel West, Ada María Isasi-Díaz, and Karen Lebacqz, the collection highlights the energy, intelligence, and originality of contemporary Christian stances on a compelling array of ethical issues. Indispensable for anyone interested in teaching an exciting and comprehensive course on what Christianity brings to the challenges of everyday life.”
Reproduction and the Common Good
Theology
“In July 2020, Emily Reimer-Barry and Simeiqi He co-convened a virtual roundtable to discuss reproduction and the common good eight times a year for nearly three years. Now, in this volume of sixteen robust essays, they present what is so often overlooked, the agency of women in an evidently unequal and unjust world. Reproduction and the Common Good: Global Perspectives from the Catholic Tradition is beyond doubt a ground-breaking work. As such, we hope it continues to generate and sustain the generous and collaborative spirit of bringing to light and to discussion the challenges of many whose faces and voices are still to be known.”
Spiritual Exercises for the Postmodern Christian
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“Matthew Kruger provides us a bold, post-modern Enchiridion, a handbook for following Christ in the twenty-first century. Kruger’s powerful, directive voice leads us to practices that free us from tiresome interior monologues so as to listen to new ones, helping us to shed old selves so as to discover real ones. A demanding work that calls us to destroy what is not true and to dare to encounter what is. A practical work that Augustine and Erasmus would admire, as would Foucault and Hadot. Once you open it, you will want to consult time and again.”
The Ethics of Disruption in Business
Work, Money & Leadership
“Steph Puen has long been associated with three distinguishing traits. First, she’s current, she knows, understands, and engages contemporary insights, claims, and worlds of thought. Witness here: wicked problems, disruption, design thinking, structures of grace. Second, she’s always thinking ethically. She knows how vice and virtue work, she sees sin and grace tangibly, and she knows the cost of being human and of being upright. Finally, she’s humbly brilliant. She brings you into the world she sees as it is and as she envisions it can be. It’s like entering her home, where one finds innovative design, gracious hospitality, and considerable wit. Read Puen’s The Ethics of Disruption in Business. It’s sensational.”
“In The Mystery and the World, Maria Clara Bingemer dares to take on our contemporary secular culture and insists on our need for religious experience. While arguing for the reality of religion, she posits a particular course, for all of us, to rediscover the Transcendent. . . . Through her account of how it is that we are this way, she proposes other narratives that bring us to an encounter of passion for God. It's Bingemer at her best.”
Theology
“For all teaching the virtues in colleges, universities, seminaries and parish settings, here is your new book: Mark O'Keefe's splendid Virtues Abounding. O'Keefe provides us with a cornucopia of virtues: not only justice, prudence, temperance and fortitude, but also their sub-virtues . . . Clearly the worthy, contemporary successor to Josef Pieper's The Four Cardinal Virtues, O’Keefe’s work should now become the virtue handbook for the 21st century.”
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