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Law and Virtue, Nature and Grace

Engaging the Thought of Jean Porter

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Law and Virtue, Nature and Grace

Engaging the Thought of Jean Porter

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This Festschrift in honour of Jean Porter, whose research over her career has focused on the most important topics in moral theology, including action theory, virtue, natural law and justice.

Crossing disciplinary boundaries, from theology to philosophy to law, a group of leading Catholic and Protestant scholars celebrate the life work of Jean Porter. The contributors engage a wide range of topics in moral thought – from the very foundations of morality, to the technical nuances of human action and formation, to applications to a variety of social matters.

A diverse range of contributions, they are all bound by an engagement with Jean Porter's own interests and scholarship. They honour her in the way she would most appreciate: offering the highest level scholarship on topics germane to moral theology.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Joseph E. Capizzi (The Catholic University of America, USA) and William C. Mattison III (University of Notre Dame, USA)

Foreword
Serge-Thomas Bonino, O.P. (Angelicum, Italy)

Roots of Morality

1. Nature, History, and Moral Theology: Jean Porter's Retrieval of Scholastic Natural Law (David Lantigua University of Notre Dame, USA)

2. Is Ecstatic Eudaimonsim Unacceptably Self-regarding? (John Hare, Yale Divinity School, USA)

3. Nature and Grace in Christian Ethics: An Engagement with Jean Porter (Gerald McKenny, University of Notre Dame, USA)

4. Perfection and the Problem of Lukewarm Charity (David Elliot, Catholic University of America, USA)

5. Connaturality and the Passions (Angela Knobel, University of Dallas, USA)

6. More Natural Virtues (Jennifer Herdt, Yale Divinity School, USA)

Justice, Law, and the Common Good

7. Two Approaches and Still Other Philosophical Perplexities of Catholic Social Teaching (Russell Hittinger, University of Tulsa, USA)

8. Households and the Economy: Reflection on how Institutions Shape Economic Thought (Mary Hirschfeld, University of Notre Dame, USA)

9. 'Ministers of Law?' Aquinas, Legal Ethics, and the Vocation of a Lawyer (Elisabeth Kincaid, Loyola University, USA)

10. Lust: An Augustinian Riff on a Thomistic Vice (Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College, USA)

11. Tainted Goods (Jeremy Waldron, New York University, USA)

Bibliography
Index

Product details

Published 15 Oct 2026
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Pages 256
ISBN 9780567716057
Imprint T&T Clark
Series T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Volume Editor

William C. Mattison III

William C. Mattison III is the Wilsey Family Profe…

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Joseph E. Capizzi

Joseph E. Capizzi is Dean and Ordinary Professor o…

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