Dr Thomas Finegan
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Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications (selection)
“Fundamental Moral Equality, Range Property, and Soul,” National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly (forthcoming)
“Specifying πορνεία in Matthew 5:32 and 19:9 via Overlooked Contextualization,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 49(1) (2026): 198-222
“A Critique of the New Natural Law Contra-Life Argument,” Nova et Vetera (forthcoming)
“An Unnoticed Dualism: A Rejoinder to Lawler and Salzman,” Irish Theological Quarterly 90(4) (2025): 503–25
“Assisted Suicide and Slippery Slopes: Reflections on Oregon,” The New Bioethics 30(2) (2024): 89–102
“Marrying Body and Theology: A Reply to Lawler and Salzman,” Irish Theological Quarterly 89(1) (2024): 41–60
“Clarifying Core Elements of New Testament Normativity,” Studies in Christian Ethics 36(1) (2023): 84–106
“Ideal and Mandatory Moral Norms,” Journal of Religious Ethics 50(4) (2022): 600–22
“Liberal Relativism’s Challenge to Conscience Rights,” Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 9(1) (2020): 79–104
“Apology for the Reasonableness of Catholic Religious Education,” Louvain Studies 43(2) (2020): 141–63
“Conscientious Objection to Referrals,” Journal of Medical Ethics 45(4) (2019): 277–79
“Intermediate Moral Respect and Proportionality Reasoning,” Bioethics 30(8) (2016): 579–87
“Dworkin on Equality, Autonomy and Authenticity,” American Journal of Jurisprudence 60(2) (2015): 143–80
“A Matter of Consistency: Dignity and Personhood in Human Rights Biolaw,” Medical Law International 14(1-2) (2014): 80–99
“Levinas’ Faithfulness to Husserl, Phenomenology and God,” Religious Studies 48(3) (2012): 281–303
Current Research
Book tentatively titled, The Divorce Clause in Matthean Context
Natural law analysis of specific moral norms
Marriage and the body
Fundamental equality and its implications for bioethics
Research Supervision
I am available for PhD supervision in the areas of natural law, bioethics, Gospel of Matthew, and Catholic educational theory
