Jesuit Postmodern Scholarship, Vocation, and Identity in the 21st Century

by Clooney, SJ, Francis X.,; Anderson, Ronald, S.J.; Bernauer, James, S.J.; Brennan, Thomas J., S.J.; Haight, Roger, S.J.; Madigan, Arthur, S.J.; Morrill, Bruce T., S.J.; Rehg, William, S.J.; Stempsey, William E., S.J.

• ISBN13: 9780739114001
• ISBN10: 073911400X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-07
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

In Jesuit Postmodern, nine American Jesuit scholars teaching at universities reflect on their scholarly work, why they engage in it, and how the work they do coheres with their self-understanding as Jesuits. In accounts that weave together scholarly lives and personal stories, the contributors to this volume explore the irreducible diversity of their experiences and criticize the dominant modern synthesis that shaped Jesuit institutions of higher education from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Table of Contents

Introducing Ourselves	1	(22)
Francis X. Clooney
Confessions of an Aristotelian Christian	23	(22)
Arthur Madigan
A Philosophical Dissection of a Jesuit Scholar	45	(20)
William E. Stempsey
What Difference Does It Make for Me as a Liturgist To Be a Jesuit---or Vice Versa?	65	(24)
Bruce T. Morrill
The American Jesuit Theologian	89	(18)
Roger Haight
Philosophizing after the Holocaust	107	(22)
James Bernauer
Studying Physics and Jesuit Life: Worldliness and Life as an Immigrant	129	(28)
Ronald Anderson
Francis Xavier, and the World/s We (Don't Quite) Share	157	(24)
Francis X. Clooney
A Tale of Two Comings Out: Priest and Gay on a Catholic Campus	181	(14)
Thomas J. Brennan
Epilogue: Do Jesuit Scholarly Endeavors Cohere? Self-Reckoning and the Postmodern Challenge	195	(24)
William Rehg
About the Editor and Contributors	219