Fr. James Keenan, SJ: Christian Hope Was Born on Golgotha

Explore how Christian hope emerges from grief and the Crucifixion, tracing the disciples’ sorrow from Golgotha to the Upper Room and considering grief as an epiphanic experience within Christian moral theology.

About Fr. James Keenan, SJ

James Keenan, SJ, is the Canisius Chair, Director of the Jesuit Institute, and Vice Provost of Global Engagement at Boston College. In 2004, he founded Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, an international network of ethicists. In 2019, he received the John Courtney Murray Lifetime Achievement Award from the Catholic Theological Society of America and was president of the Society of Christian Ethics from 2020 to 2021. He has written 13 books, including A History of Catholic Theological Ethics (2022) and The Moral Life (2023), and has edited another 17 books; he is the founding editor of the Georgetown University Press Moral Traditions Series.

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