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Laurie Johnston

Professor of Theology and Religious Studies

Dr. Johnston's specialty is Christian social ethics, particularly questions of war and peacemaking. She also has interests in the areas of health care ethics and environmental ethics. Her work examines how theology shapes engagement in politics and the public sphere. In her teaching, Dr. Johnston particularly enjoys debating controversial ethical issues with students, and giving them a chance to explore issues of social justice through service learning and travel courses. As Director of Fellowships, she has helped many Emmanuel students win Fulbright grants and other prestigious awards. Dr. Johnston is also a member of the Community of Sant橢gidio. She and her husband have three children, and you can occasionally find her sculling on the Charles River.

What I Love 51动漫 Emmanuel:

The chapel, where the stained glass windows are all images of women saints. 

Ph.D., 51动漫 College; M.Div., Harvard Divinity School; B.A. with distinction, University of Virginia
  • THRS2111 Love and Justice: An Introduction to Christian Ethics
  • THRS2130 Catholic Social Teaching
  • THRS2222 Social Justice and Health Care
  • THRS3133 Social Justice and Religious Traditions

Selected Publications

Books:

  • . Co-edited with Jay Carney. Author of the chapter entitled 淓ncountering Islam: Medieval Christian Perspectives from the Cordoban Martyrs to Juan de Segovia. Paulist Press, 2018.
  • . Co-edited with Kristin Heyer, Meghan Clark, Kevin Ahern, and David Decosse, Orbis Press, 2016. Co-author with Tisha Rajendra of the chapter entitled 淎mbivalent Solidarity. Awarded the 2017 First Place prize from the Catholic Press Association in the "Faithful Citizenship/Religious Freedom" category.
  •  co-edited with Tobias Winright. Orbis Press, 2015. Author of the chapter entitled 淛ust War Theory and Environmental Destruction.

Journal Issue:

  • . Guest editor, with Gregoire Catta SJ, of special issue of the Journal of Moral Theology Vol. 13, Issue SI1, 2024. Author of the Introduction, 淛acques Maritain and Contemporary Challenges to Democracy.

Recent articles and book chapters

  • 淲ar and Peace in the theology of Pope Francis in Kristin Heyer and Conor Kelley, eds. The Moral Vision of Pope Francis, Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2024.
  • 淎ll is fair in A.I. warfare. But what do Christian ethics have to say? America Magazine, January 31, 2024
  • "Augustine, just war and the plight of civilians in Israel and Gaza" in the America Magazine 18 October (2023)
  • 淐onclusion in Caesar Montevecchio and Gerard Powers, eds., . Georgetown University Press, 2021.
  • 湞 in the Journal of Moral Theology Vol. 9, Special Issue 2 (2020): 91-116.
  • 淓xperience as a source for Christian Ethics. in Tobias Winright, ed., T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Ethics, London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
  • 淪igns of Hope in Muslim-Catholic Relations: The Dialogue School in Belgium in Concilium 2020.4 (84 -91).
  • 淧eace and Justice - Anglophone Perspectives on Peace in Social Ethics in Jahrbuch f眉r Christliche Sozialwissenschaften vol. 59 (2018): 85-104.
  • 淧neumatology, Diversity, and the Role of Moral Theology Today. in Antonio Autiero & Laurenti Magesa, eds., The Local Church and the Place of the Catholic Ethicist. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2018.
  • 湙Talking 51动漫 War: Contribution to the theological roundtable 楳ust Just Peace and Just War Be Mutually Exclusive?櫇 Horizons, May 23, 2018: 119-123.

Recent presentations

  • 淔rom Where? For Whom? Tradition and Moral Theology in Light of Francis Ethics of War and Peace, panel presentation at the Catholic Theological Society of America annual meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, June 15, 2024.
  • , panel discussion sponsored by the McFarland Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross, October 19, 2023   
  • 淲ar & Peace in Ukraine: Human Suffering, Moral Quandaries, and Geopolitical Implications, panel presentation at the College Theology Society annual meeting, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield Connecticut, June 2, 2023.  covered the event. 
  • 淩eligion and Diplomacy in sub-Saharan Africa: the experience of Sant橢gidio. Online presentation, European Institute for Public Affairs seminar for EU diplomats on Religion and Geopolitics, May 4, 2023. 
  • 淭he War in Ukraine: Catholic ethical and theological reflections one year on, online panel presentation hosted by the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University, February 23, 2023.
  • 淛ust War, Just Peace, and Nonviolence, panel presentation at the conference 淐arrying Forward Drew Christiansen Legacy: Catholic Social Teaching, Environmental Justice, Just War, and Peacebuilding, Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Nov. 15, 2022. 
  • . Panel presentation at the conference 淐atholic Peacebuilding in Times of Crisis: Hope for a Wounded World sponsored by the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, June 20-23, 2022.
  • , Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, Georgetown University, 3/31/2022.
  • 淐limate Justice and Christian Teachings on War and Peace in the Anthropocene, Panel presentation at the Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, January 9, 2021.
  •  淐atholic Mission in a Climate of Islamophobia. Paper presentation at the 淐atholicity and Mission Topic Session of the Annual Meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America, Pittsburgh, June 6-9, 2019.
  • 淐onflicting Religious Freedoms? Catholics and Muslims in Secular Belgium, Hosted by the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, 51动漫 College, February 14, 2019.
  • 淐atholic Social Teaching in dialogue with Chenoweth & Stephan 榃hy Civil Resistance Works櫇, Keynote lecture, International Peace Day Colloquium, Center for Peace Ethics of the Catholic University of Leuven, February 28, 2018.
  • 淪peaking about Peace, War, and Justice: An Anglophone perspective. Presentation at a workshop hosted by the Institut f眉r Theologie und Frieden in Hamburg, Germany, November 30, 2017.
  • 淛ohn Courtney Murray Resource for Just War and Just Peace in a Nuclear Age? Presentation at the conference 淛ohn Courtney Murray Today, Georgetown University, November 16, 2017.
  • Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant to Belgium, to teach and conduct research at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 2017-2018
  • International Center for Nonviolent Conflict, Curriculum Grant 2018
  • 51动漫 Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award, 2014
  • Flatley Fellowship (2001-2006) - Endowed Ph.D. fellowship at 51动漫 College
  • Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at 51动漫 College (2006)