Mark D. Jordan
Mark D. Jordan is the Andrew Mellon Professor of Christian Thought at Harvard Divinity School. His focus is on European philosophy, gender studies, and sexuality. Much of his early work related to Catholic teachings of Thomas Aquinas. In recent years, he has more specifically focused on religious doctrine and its relation to LGBT issues.
In addition to his scholarship and classroom teaching, Jordan has discussed sexual and religious issues to audiences that range from college lectureships to National Public Radio, the New York Times, and CNN. [1][2][3] [4] [5][6]
Jordan won the annual Randy Shilts Award for nonfiction for his 2011 book, Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality.[7]
Prior to his return to Harvard in 2014, Jordan had held endowed professorships at Emory, Washington University at St. Louis, Notre Dame and at Harvard.[8] He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright-Hays grant (Spain), a Luce Fellowship in Theology, and a grant from the Ford Foundation [9]
Jordan received his BA from St. John’s College and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He grew up in Dallas, where he graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas.[10][11]
Books
- The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology, Chicago, 1997.
- 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 in press