Education

• BA, St. John's College
• MA, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Profile

Mark D. Jordan is a scholar of Christian theology, European philosophy, and gender studies. At Harvard, he has offered courses on the Western traditions of Christian soul-shaping, the relations of religion to art or literature, and the prospects for sexual ethics. Jordan has written extensively on sexual ethics, producing books that are widely regarded as opening important new conversations. But he has also continued to explore longstanding topics at the boundaries of philosophy and Christian theology.  

Jordan has received a number of grants and fellowships, including a John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, a Fulbright-Hays grant (Spain), and a Henry Luce III Fellowship in Theology. With support from the Ford Foundation, he led a seminar on public debates about religion and sexuality for rising scholars from the United States and abroad. In 2019, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Professor Jordan retired from active teaching duties at HDS in 2021 and is now working as a research professor. 

Selected publications

• The Ethics of Sex (Blackwell, 2001)
• Telling Truths in Church (Beacon Press, 2002)
• Rewritten Theology: Aquinas After His Readers (Blackwell, 2005)
• Blessing Same-Sex Unions (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
• Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
• Convulsing Bodies: Religion and Resistance in Foucault (Stanford University Press, 2015)
• Teaching Bodies: Moral Formation in the Summa of Thomas Aquinas (Fordham University Press, 2016)

• Transforming Fire: Imagining Christian Teaching (Eerdmans, 2021)

• Queer Callings: Untimely Notes on Names and Desires (Fordham University Press, 2023)

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