Jesuit postmodern : scholarship, vocation, and identity in the 21st century / edited by Francis X. Clooney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clooney, Francis X. (Francis Xavier), 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesuits--United States.

Jesuits.

Intellectuals--United States.

Intellectuals.

Learning and scholarship.

History.

United States.

Learning and scholarship--United States--History--20th century.

United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

vi, 220 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2006]

Summary:

In Jesuit Postmodern, Francis X. Clooney, S.J., has joined with eight other American Jesuit scholars teaching at universities to 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. While the contrapuntal display of voices enunciated in this collection will unsettle the conventional and still dominant ways of talking about Jesuits, scholarship, and religious intellectual inquiry, Jesuit Postmodern does not end the conversation, but pushes scholars to talk more critically and imaginatively.

Contents:

Introducing ourselves / Francis X. Clooney

Confessions of an Aristotelian Christian / Arthur Madigan

A philosophical dissection of a Jesuit scholar / William E. Stempsey

What difference does it make for me as a liturgist to be a Jesuit

or vice versa? / Bruce T. Morrill

The American Jesuit theologian / Roger Haight

Philosophizing after the Holocaust / James Bernauer

Studying physics and Jesuit life: worldliness and life as an immigrant / Ronald Anderson

Francis Xavier, and the world/s we (don't quite) share / Francis X. Clooney

A tale of two comings out: priest and gay on a Catholic campus / Thomas J. Brennan

Epilogue: do Jesuit scholarly endeavors cohere? self-reckoning and the postmodern challenge / William Rehg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

073911400X

0739114018

OCLC:

62133682