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Mark D. Jordan, Asa Griggs Candler Professor (1999). He was educated at St. John’s College (Annapolis and Santa Fe), the Universidad de Granada, and the University of Texas/Austin (Ph.D. 1977). Before coming to Emory, he taught at the University of Notre Dame. His academic interests circle around the performance of religious identities, Christian teachings on sex, and the varieties of theological rhetoric. His books include The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (Chicago 1997), The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism (Chicago 2000), The Ethics of Sex (Blackwell 2001), Telling Truths in Church (Beacon 2002), Blessing Same-Sex Unions (Chicago 2005), and Rewritten Theology: Aquinas After His Readers (Blackwell 2005). He has just edited Authorizing Marriage?: Canon, Tradition, and Critique in the Blessing of Same-Sex Unions (Princeton University 2006).