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Summer Scholar-in-Residence: James F. Keenan, S.J. on 1900-1970: The Evolution of Moral Theology

July 2, 9, 16, 2008
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Lone Mountain 100

The Lane Center is delighted welcome James F. Keenan, SJ, moral theologian at Boston College, as the Lane Center Scholar-in-Residence during the summer of 2008.  Fr. Keenan will deliver a series of public lectures on his current research in the area of moral theology in the age of HIV/AIDS.  July 2, 2008:  The Moral Manuals and Moral Pathology July 9, 2008:  Innovation July 16, 2008: From Confessing Sins to Liberating Consciences

Fr. Keenan is a Jesuit priest from the New York Province.  He is one of the world’s leading moral theologians in the areas of virtue ethics, health care, and HIV/AIDS.  He is the author or editor of many books and hundreds of scholarly articles.  He has held fellowships and chairs at the University of Edinburgh, Princeton, John Carroll, the Gregorian University, Loyola School of Theology in Manila, and Boston College.  He is the Chair of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church and an advisor to the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance.  In 2006 he convened the world's first International Crosscultural Conference for Catholic Theological Ethicists in Padua, Italy.