Aquinas and the Supreme Court

Eugene F. Rogers is Professor of Religious Studies and Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He has taught at Princeton, Yale, Shaw University Divinity School, among others, and has held numerous fellowships.  He is author or editor of five books and many articles and translations. In 2010, Christian Century named his book Sexuality and the Christian Body among “essential reading” published in the past 25 years.

"It is essential reading for any theologian engaging with Aquinas’s ethics and for any lawyer who wants to reflect on their calling after Aquinas."  (Studies in Christian Ethics, 1 November 2015)“A “must” for the theological-college library, this is not a book that can be ignored by anyone interested in this fascinating and deeply influential Dominican.”  (Church Times, 17 January 2014)“This book will be particularly useful for graduate students in philosophy and theology.  Summing Up: Recommended.  Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students.”  (Choice, 1 November 2013)

• Acknowledgments xiBibliographic Note xivList of Abbreviations xvii1 Aquinas on the Supreme Court – and on the Bible, or How to Read This Book 1Part I Aquinas on the Failure of Natural Law 232 What Aquinas Thinks We Cannot Know 253 How God Moves Creatures: For and Against Natural Law 634 How Aquinas Reads Scripture 975 How the Law of Nature Is a Character in Decline 1186 How the Narrative Sexualizes Nature’s Decline 147Part II Aquinas on the Redemption of Natural Law 1777 How Aquinas Gets Nature and Grace Back Together Again: Aquinas Meets Karl Barth 1798 How Faith and Reason Follow Glory 2159 How Aquinas Makes Nature Dynamic All the Way Down: Aquinas Meets Judith Butler 23210 How the Spirit Moves the Law 24711 How Natural Science Becomes a Form of Prayer 26512 How the Semen of the Spirit Genders the Gentiles: Rereading Romans 289Conclusion: Questions Answered and Unanswered 298Subject Index 305Index of Thomistic Citations 313