Meet the Faculty: Jean Porter

Jean Porter is the John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. A leading voice in the retrieval of Thomistic ethics for theology, Dr. Porter has authored numerous works including The Recovery of Virtue: The Relevance of Aquinas for Christian Ethics (1990), Moral Action and Christian Ethics (1996); Natural and Divine Law: Reclaiming the Tradition for Christian Ethics (1999), Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of the Natural Law (2004), Ministers of the Law: A Natural Law Theory of Legal Authority (2010), Justice as Virtue: A Thomistic Perspective (2016), The Perfection of Desire: Habit, Reason, and Virtue in Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae (2018).