Professor; Joseph Chair in Theology
Stokes Hall 335N
Telephone: 617-552-2836
Email: kristin.heyer@bc.edu
Social ethics, migration ethics, Catholic social thought, religion and politics, moral agency
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“Moral Agency between the Times: Shared Finitude, Fragility and Fragmentation,â€�ÌýTheological Studies,ÌýVolume 87, Issue 1Ìý(March 2026) 126-49.Open access, availableÌý.
“‘Heart(s) of Flesh’: Structural Sin and Social Salvation,â€� Presidential Address,ÌýCTSAÌýProceedingsÌý78 (2024) 59-88,Ìý.
ÌýThe Moral Vision of Pope Francis:ÌýExpanding the US Reception of the First Jesuit Pope,Ìýed. with Conor Kelly, Georgetown University Press: 2024.
“Enfleshing the Work of Social Production: Gender, Race and Agency.â€�ÌýJournal of Moral TheologyÌý12 (Special Issue 1): 82–107.Ìý.
“Walls in the Heart: Social Sin inÌýFratelli Tutti,â€�ÌýÌýJournal of Catholic Social ThoughtÌý19.1(Winter 2022) 25-40.ÌýDOI:Ìý
Christianity and the Law of Migration: An Introduction,Ìýed. with Silas W. Allard and Raj Nadella. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021.
“RadicalÌýSolidarity:ÌýMigrationÌýinÌýtheÌýUSAÌýasÌýa ChallengeÌýforÌýTheologicalÌýEthicsâ€� in Charles E. Curran and Lisa A. Fullam, eds.,ÌýU.S. Moral Theology from the Margins: Readings in Moral Theology No. 19Ìý(Paulist Press, 2020).
“Becoming Islands of Mercy in a Sea of Indifference: Migration, Social Sin, and Conversion,â€� in Thomas Kelly and Robert Pennington eds.,ÌýAn Ethic for Bridge Building: Pope Francis’ Practical Theological ApproachÌý(Herder & Herder, 2020) 77-91.
“,â€�ÌýInterdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary SocietyÌý6.1 (July 2020) 158-170ÌýDOI:Ìý.
“Migration, Social Sin, and Solidarity,â€� in Peter Phan, ed.,ÌýChristian Theology in the Age of Migration:ÌýImplications for World ChristianityÌý(Lexington Books, 2020).
Building Bridges in Sarajevo: The Plenary Papers from CTEWC 2018,Ìýed. with JamesÌýF. Keenan and Andrea Vicini. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2019.
“Beyond the Northern Paradigm: Catholic Theological Ethics in Global Perspective,â€� with Linda Hogan,ÌýJournal of the Society of Christian EthicsÌý39, 39.1 (Spring/Summer 2019).Ìý
“Internalized Borders: Immigration Ethics in the Age of Trump,â€�ÌýTheological StudiesÌý79.1 (March 2018) 146-164.
Public Theology and the Global Common Good: the Contribution of David Hollenbach,Ìýed. with Kevin Ahern, Meghan Clark, and Laurie Johnston. Orbis Press, 2016.
Conscience and Catholicism: Rights, Responsibilities and Institutional Responses, ed. with David DeCosse. Orbis Press, 2015.
Kinship Across Borders: A Christian Ethic of Immigration.ÌýGeorgetown University Press, Moral Traditions series, 2012.
Works in progess:
Moral Agency and the Promise of Freedom, under contract with Moral Traditions Series, Georgetown University Press: in progress.
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