Janet E. Smith

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Janet Elizabeth Smith (* 1950 ) is an American classical philologist and philosopher; she has taught moral theology at several Catholic theological faculties, including Notre Dame University and most recently at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit , Michigan .

Life

education

Smith studied Classical Philology at Grinnell College , where she received her bachelor's degree in 1972. She was awarded a Magistra in 1975 at the University of North Carolina . She received her doctorate in classical philology from the University of Toronto in 1982 . She wrote her dissertation on Plato's use of myth as an educational tool under the direction of PhD supervisor Timothy Barnes .

University post

After graduating, Smith taught philosophy at Notre Dame University for nine years. She then went to the University of Dallas , where she taught and received tenure for 12 years . In 2001 she moved to the Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit and was retired in 2019.

Church commissions and orders

Several Holy See agencies have engaged Smith as a consultant; most often she worked as a consultor for the Pontifical Family Council .

From 1989 to 1994, Smith served the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life while studying the scriptures on homosexual care written by Sister Jeannine Gramick and Rev. Robert Nugent.

In 2011 she was appointed for a five-year membership in the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity ; The task was the dialogue between the Vatican and Anglicans .

Smith has served as a consultant on the following boards:

  • Our Sunday Visitor Advisory Committee
  • Baylor University Medical Center Ethics Committee
  • The Institute for Catholic Liberal Education, Advisory Committee
  • Nova et Vetera English edition, Advisory Committee
  • American Catholic Philosophical Association, Executive Council (2011)
  • Catholic Education Resource Center, Advisory Committee
  • Thomas ( Aquinas ) International Project, Advisory Committee

Awards

Smith has received two honorary doctorates and the following selection of academic awards:

  • Michael A. Haggar Fellow Award, University of Dallas
  • Prolife Person of the Year, Diocese of Dallas
  • 1993 John Cardinal Wright Award, Fellowship of Catholic Scholars
  • Honorary Doctorate in Christian Ethics, Franciscan University of Steubenville
  • Honorary Doctorate, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary ( Philadelphia )
  • Scholar in Residence at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity in 2008.
  • 2008 Veritas Award, Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal, Ave Maria University

Media appearances

Known as an expert in American Catholicism, Smith taught many times on Humanae Vitae and Pope John Paul II teaching on theology of the body . She is a sought-after speaker on Catholic sexual morality and bioethics.

On television, she has appeared on the Geraldo Show, Fox News, CNN International, CNN Newsroom and Al Jazeera. She has been seen in several shows on the EWTN station .

Publications (in selection)

Books

  • (Translator, Editor) Humanae Vitae: A Challenge to Love (New Hope, KY: New Hope Publications, 1987), a revised translation of the encyclical Humanae Vitae
  • Humanae Vitae: A Generation Later , (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1991)  
  • (Ed.) Why Humanae Vitae Was Right: A Reader , (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1993)  
  • (Contributor) St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition (Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 2004)
  • The Right to Privacy , (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2008)  
  • (Contributor) Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas: Theological Exegesis and Speculative Theology (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2010)
  • (Co-author with Chris Kaczor) Life Issues, Medical Choices, Questions and Answers for Catholics (Cincinnati, Servant Books, 2010)
  • (Contributor) Bioethics with Liberty and Justice: Themes in the work of Joseph M. Boyle (New York: Springer, 2011)
  • (Ed. With Paul Check) Living the Truth in Love: Pastoral Approaches to Same-Sex Attraction (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2015)
  • (Sole author) Self-Gift: Essays on Humanae Vitae and the Thought of John Paul II (Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Academic, 2018)

Journal articles

Essays by Smith have been published (among others) in the following periodicals: The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly , Catholic Dossier , The Irish Theological Quarterly , The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly , Nova et Vetera , The Thomist .

Audio and video

Your lecture Contraception: Why Not? was reproduced more than 2,000,000 times in CD and MP3 format.

  • Sexual Common Sense , a series of 12 lectures
  • Contraception: Why Not?
  • Introduction to Sexual Ethics , (Notre Dame, IN, International Catholic University (company)) eight lectures

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Plato's Use of Myth as a Pedagogical Device (abstract) . PhilPapers. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  2. ^ William Murray: For Tradition-minded Catholics, Notre Dame is Making a Comeback . In: National Catholic Register , February 8, 1998. Retrieved June 10, 2016. 
  3. ^ Robert Nugent and Jeannine Gramick: Gramick / Nugent Case, 1988-1999 . National Catholic Reporter. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  4. ^ Teresa Malcolm: Vatican ban ends years of investigation , National Catholic Reporter (via thefreelibrary.com). July 30, 1999. Retrieved June 10, 2016. 
  5. ^ Third phase of Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue to commence in May , Episcopal News Service. February 4, 2011. Retrieved June 10, 2016. 
  6. ↑ Humanae Vitae: A Challenge to Love (essay) , catholicculture.com. Archived from the original on October 22, 2016. Retrieved June 10, 2016. 
  7. ↑ Ethicist and author Janet Smith will be seminary's first 'Scholar in Residence' . University of St. Thomas. March 4, 2008. Retrieved June 10, 2016.
  8. ^ Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal . Ave Maria University. Retrieved June 10, 2016.

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personal data
SURNAME Smith, Janet E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smith, Janet Elizabeth (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American moral theologian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1950