Mark D. Jordan (born 1953/54) is a scholar of Christian theology, European philosophy, and gender studies. He is currently the Richard Reinhard Niebuhr Research Professor of Divinity at

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and Professor of the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the

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. At Harvard, he teaches courses on the Western traditions of Christian theology, the relations of religion to art or literature, and the prospects for sexual ethics. Jordan also writes on

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, sexuality, and the relationship between religious doctrine and

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issues. In addition to his scholarship and classroom teaching, Jordan has discussed sexual and religious issues to audiences that range from college lectureships to

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. Jordan's most recent books are ''Teaching Bodies: Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas'' (Fordham 2016) and ''Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault'' (Stanford 2015).

Earlier affiliations and awards

Prior to his return to Harvard in 2014, Jordan held endowed professorships at

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and at

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. In 2019, it was announced that Jordan would be elected to the

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. In 2011, Jordan won the annual

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for nonfiction for his book, ''Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality''. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright-Hays grant (Spain), a Luce Fellowship in Theology, and a grant from the

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Early life and education

Jordan received his BA from St. John's College and his Ph.D. from the

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. He grew up in Dallas, where he graduated from

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Books

*''Ordering Wisdom: The Hierarchy of Philosophical Discourses in Aquinas'', Notre Dame, 1986 *''The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology,'' Chicago, 1997 *''The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism'', The University of Chicago Press, 2000 *''The Ethics of Sex'', Blackwell 2001 *''Telling Truths in Church'', Beacon 2002 *''Rewritten Theology: Aquinas After His Readers'', Blackwell 2005d *''Blessing Same-Sex Unions'', Chicago 2005 *''Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality'', Chicago 2011 *''Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault'', Stanford 2015 *''Teaching Bodies: Traditions of Moral Formation in Thomas Aquinas'', Fordham 2016

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jordan, Mark D. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Nationality missing Harvard Divinity School faculty University of Texas at Austin alumni St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) alumni University of Notre Dame faculty Emory University faculty St. Mark's School (Texas) alumni American Christian theologians American philosophers Gender studies academics Religious studies scholars Washington University in St. Louis faculty People from Dallas Fulbright alumni

Earlier affiliations and awards

Early life and education

Books

See also

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