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Don’t be fooled by the pensive look on Mark Jordan’s face. Make no mistake, he can be a serious guy when he needs to be, but for the most part he is as laid back and approachable as a professor can be.
Sometimes his subject matter requires a light touch. That’s definitely been the case recently, when one of his primary research interests—sexuality in the Catholic Church—has dominated the headlines.
Since January, when the Boston Globe broke the story about the Catholic Church covering up the sexual misconduct of its clergy, Jordan, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion, has been the go-to guy for news organizations seeking expert commentary.
In 2000 he completed the book The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in the Catholic Church. It received some critical acclaim (along with a good bit of disdain heaped on it by several far-right Catholic groups) upon its release, but the furor soon died down. That was until reporters began scrounging for sources to discuss this spring’s crisis in the church.
Since January, Jordan has appeared on nation
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Mark D. Jordan
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.
Pr Late this spring, Harvard Professor Dr. Mark Jordan met with a group of queer seminary students at the School of Theology. The conversation was about queer theology and sexual ethics. At the Harvard School of Divinity, Jordan is a scholar of Christian theology, European philosophy, and gender studies. He also writes extensively on gender sexuality and the relationship between religious doctrine and LGBTQ+ issues. The discussion, held via Zoom, was born of a mutual desire to create and inhabit safe space—the students' desire to openly address topics in queer theology as well as Jordan’s desire to enable an environment for sharing and exchange. The session brought together members of the student body from across the LGBTQ+ spectrum to consider the importance of queer theology, its development, and how it might continue to shape and support Christian communities. •
The word “queer” is often used as an umbrella term to describe the sexual orientations, gender identities, and communities of those who identify on the LGBTQ+ spectrum, but the “queer
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