Upcoming Issues

Volumes 3 - 8

Topical issues are planned for the January and June issues up to Vol. 3, no. 2 (June 2014).

Beginning in 2015, January issues will be topical, and June issues will be general, open to essays on a variety of topics.

The topical issues are listed to encourage submissions.

Virtue

Volume 3, Number 1
January 2014
Editors: David Cloutier and William C. Mattison III

Environment and Creation: Non-Human Animals

Volume 3, Number 2
June 2014
Editor: John Berkman

Technology, Human Community and Being Human

Volume 4, Number 1
January 2015
Editors: James F. Caccamo and David Matzko McCarthy

Technology is an understudied area that can be linked to a number of other interesting theological questions. For example, articles might take up how technology shapes our understandings of friendship, neighborhoods, and community, how participation in civic life is affected, and so on. In general, there is a sense that the church ought to be caught up more in online life. But there are all kinds of thorny issues that need to be worked out. Theologians might start to work out a "rule of life" that helps people engage online practices and everyday use of electronic media (e.g., iPhones).

Civil Community and State

Volume 5, Number 1
January 2016
Editors: Jeanne Heffernan Schindler and Joseph Capizzi

 Populorum Progressio: Freedom, Politics, Economics, and Human Fulfillment

Volume 6, Number 1
January 2017

The issue will appear on the fiftieth anniversary of Popularum Progressio. Submissions may deal with topics related to the document and do not have to address the encyclical directly. Key topics are listed in the subtitle.

Children, the Market, Youth Culture, and Moral Formation

Volume 7, Number 1
January 2018

The editorial board of the JMT believes that the topic of children/childhood ought to be given more attention in the disciple. We welcome a variety of approaches to the issues listed in the title of the volume.

Sports Culture, Culture and Sports

Volume 8, Number 1
January 2019

Sports is an important topic for moral theologians because it is an area of life that (a) almost all of us have interest in, (b) many people in our culture have interest in, (c) is enormously culturally influential, (d) consumes vast amounts of private and public funding, (e) has had countless recent crossover flashpoints, like the PSU-Sandusky sexual abuse scandal (with obvious parallels to the Church's scandal) and (f) has obvious points of contact with moral theology (e.g., think how often in teaching about virtue we analogize to sport).