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Community And Conscience Formation, Phyllis R. Brown

English

The three Cs, competence, conscience, and compassion, are fundamental to Santa Clara University's distinctive identity as a Jesuit and Catholic university. However, a fourth C, community-and communities within communities-provides a context for conscience formation through dialogue and critical engagement not only with the academic subject matter of course work but also outside the classroom with the wicked problems facing humanity. This chapter will explore ways individuals and programs at Santa Clara University (SCU) invite students to experience communities in classroom and co-curricular settings that encourage dialogue, critical engagement, and social consciousness aimed at fostering the greater good. This engagement is …

The Santa Clara, 2017-11-09, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

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On “And Vulnerable": Catholic Social Thought And The Social Challenges Of Cognitive Disability, Matthew J. Gaudet

General Engineering

In light of the ongoing social challenges facing individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in our time, I want to highlight some underappreciated aspects of Catholic Social Teaching that we would do well to recall. The discussion proceeds in four parts. First, I identify several key contemporary social challenges that continue to face individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Second, I trace the root of those particular challenges to the social forces of industrialization, urbanization, and social Darwinism in the second half of the nineteenth century. Third, on the basis of that historical framework, I argue that the contemporary Catholic …

The Contribution Of The Just Policing Ethics Of Gerald W. Schlabach To The Social Ethics Of War And Peace, Dennis Purificacion

Jesuit School of Theology Dissertations

The following study investigates developments in the Just Policing ethics of Professor Gerald W. Schlabach, so as to contribute to the foundations of a new paradigm of the social ethics of war and peace. Traditional categories of the Just War Doctrine and Pacifism do not necessarily provide an adequate moral framework for critiquing the complexities of modern warfare in the 21st Century and call for a new synthesis. The principles provided by Schlabach in Just Policing provide a hermeneutical key in developing a global social ethics for humanitarian military intervention and even provide ethical foundations for the abolishment of war …

In The Name Of Water: An Inculturated Moral Vision To Address China's Water Crisis, Feng Xu

Jesuit School of Theology Dissertations

This thesis demonstrates China’s water crisis and analyzes its social, economic, political, and ethical causes, in order to find a possible solution. I argue that China’s water crisis is a human crisis. Therefore, to address it, I present an inculturated moral vision. This inculturated moral vision is a combination of Confucian notion of the harmony between Heaven, Earth, and all in between, and the Catholic notion of solidarity with the poor or preferential option for the poor.

The cosmological unity or harmony with everything else is the perfection of Jen in Confucianism. Likewise, solidarity with the poor or preferential option …

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 57 Number 3, Summer 2016, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

26 - CAN’T THREAD A MOVING NEEDLE To tackle sexual assault on college campuses, a playwriting project comes to the screen. By Danae Stahlnecker ’15.

28 - MISSION CRITICAL When three students fell ill from meningitis-causing bacteria—which can be fatal—it meant the clock was ticking. And to get through this, it would take everybody’s help. By Harold Gutmann.

36 - “WHERE ARE THEY TAKING US?” A journal from the front lines of the Syrian refugee crisis in Greece. By Colleen Sinsky ’10.

40 - NO STRANGERS HERE Refugees, home, and work by Ameera Naguib ’16 from Jordan to Silicon Valley. …

The Santa Clara, 2014-10-23, Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara

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Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 54 Number 1, Summer 2012, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

14 - BELLA VITA By Ron Hansen M.a. '95. After 66 years, Professor Victor Vari is retiring. He's imparted to generations of Santa Clara students an understanding of Italian language and culture-and how to live a beautiful life.

18 - THE SPORTING LIFE By Ann Killion. From when women first arrived on the Mission Campus 50 years ago and athletics was a dirty word-to internationally known programs and penalty shots heard 'round the world.

20 - RESPECT THE GAME By Britt Yap. They've been national champs and the subject of dreams-may-cometrue movies. But in the beginning, they were women who …

Explore, Spring 2007, Vol. 10, No. 2: William C. Spohn's Contributions To Theological Scholarship, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Follow the Friendships: The Work of William Spohn; Hearers and Doers of the Word: The Challenge of William C. Spohn to Scripture and Ethics; Jesus and the Moral Life: Edwards, H. R. Niebuhr, and Spohn; William C. Spohn's Contribution to Moral Theology; Where Do We Go From Here? Ways We Can Build on Spohn’s Contributions; Bannan Grant Report: Shakespeare at San Quentin - Santa Clara Students Perform Shakespeare For and With Inmates; Spohn Memorial Fund and Next Issue

Church Leadership, Ethics And The Future, James Keenan S.J.

Santa Clara Lectures

No abstract provided.

The Discipline Of Christian Spirituality And Catholic Theology, Sandra Marie Schneiders

Jesuit School of Theology

No abstract provided.

Impact Of Classics Of Western Spirituality On The Discipline Of Christian Spirituality, Sandra Marie Schneiders

Jesuit School of Theology

First became aware of the need for something like the Classics of Western Spirituality (CWS) in the late 1960's and early 1970's when I was working on my licentiate thesis in Paris. My subject was the understanding of consecrated virginity in the first four centuries of Christianity. I was motivated to study this subject by two hunches, both confirmed by my subsequent research: first, that the spirituality of Catholic Religious Life, both monastic and ministerial, as it developed in the Christian tradition, was actually rooted historically and mystically in the commitment of the consecrated virgins in the first three centuries …

The Cost Of Economic Discipleship: U.S. Christians And Global Capitalism, Tom Beaudoin

Santa Clara Lectures

No abstract provided.

Explore, Fall 2001: 40th Anniversary Of The Second Vatican Council, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Post-Vatican II Catholics; Vatican II: Sources, Achievement, and Unfinished Business; American Catholicism and World Politics: The Second Vatican Council and the Cold War; Moral Theology After Vatican II; Living Our Faith: Ministry in the New Millenium; A Reflection on Vocation in the Light of Vatican II; Faith and Health: What Do We Know?; Biblical Hermeneutics From Vatican II Onward

Explore, Fall 1999: Justice, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Letter From the Director; Justice in the Law School Curriculum; Justice in the Law School Tradition; Faith Doing Justice; Contrasting Justice, Law School, and the Christian Faith; The Mark of a Jesuit Education; Justice is the End; Engagement in the Pursuit of Justice; My Journey to Justice; Coming Events / Next Issue

Explore, Spring 1998: Jesuits And The Sciences, Ignatian Center For Jesuit Education

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Contents: Mission and Core Values; Reflections of an Evolutionary Biologist; Jesuit Activities in Focus: Jesuits and the Sciences; Both a Jesuit and a Physicist; Majoring in Physics: The Reward and the Risk; Checkup with Dr. Marc Tunzi; Book review: The Religion of Technology: The Divinity of Man and the Spirit of Invention; Bannan Visitor Criteria; Visiting Fellows; Contributions of German and American Jesuits to Economics; Bannan Grant Criteria; Grant Recipients; Coming Events: Spirituality Series, Lecture Series; Next Issue

Modernity And The Satanic Face Of God, Michael J. Buckley S.J.

Religious Studies

The religious intellect must recognize that in the nineteenth century it confronts a unique situation, unprecedented both in the depth of its challenge and in the extension of its claims. During that period, the denial of the reality of God rose to achieve an articulate and influential presence within the intellectual culture of western Europe. This denial was no longer the persuasion of this or that idiosyncratic figure such as Diagoras of Melos or Theodore of Cyrene in preChristian antiquity; nor did it constitute the mentality of a peculiarly enlightened cast such as the d'Holbachian circle in Paris in the …

Issues In Contetnporary Christian Ethics: The Choice Of Death In A Medical Context - 1995, Margaret A. Farley

Santa Clara Lectures

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A Dialogue On Communication And Theology: Theological Reflection Andcommunication, Paul A. Soukup

Communication

Theology and communication seem to go together, at least because the Church is as much in the communication business as it is in the business of reflecting on its belief. Whether the disciples go forth to proclaim the good news to all the nations, or a diocese publishes a newspaper, or an entrepreneur starts a religious cable station, the Church is unmistakably linked to communication. On the other hand, the Church's is certainly not the only wave in the sea of information in which people live. Augustine noticed that and devoted the De doctrina christiana to a theological consideration of …

The Church As A Moral Communicator, Paul A. Soukup

Communication

What role does the Church-as a communicator-play in shaping the moral imagination of society? The question itself poses further questions. What is the Church, as a communicator? How does the Church act as a communicator of morals? What should the Church do to shape morals? Briefly, I will argue that the Church functions as a moral communicator at several levels, that the Church works best as a moral communicator when the Church shapes the imagination, and that such shaping occurs when the Church is most honestly the Church at the local level.

Living Word Or Dead(Ly) Letter: The Encounter Between The New Testament And Contemporary Experience, Sandra Marie Schneiders

Jesuit School of Theology

In one sense the question about the relationship between Scripture and Christian experience is an ancient one, usually formulated as the question about the relationship between Scripture and tradition. The modern discussion of this relationship began in the sixteenth century when, for diametrically opposed reasons, both Protestants and Catholics escalated the distinction between Scripture and tradition into a virtual separation.

Charles Kingsley And The Book Of Nature, John C. Hawley

English

Stephen W. Sykes has written that theological "views are neither right nor wrong by being liberal in character. Only a church," he argues, "which has despaired of the possibility of rational argument about theology altogether could adopt such a stance."1 Yet Paul Avis has gone so far as to suggest that "Anglicanism enshrines a principle of reverent agnosticism. It takes seriously the limitations of our knowledge and readily confesses that our grasp of the truth is circumscribed by mystery, a light shining in the darkness."2 From the Cambridge Platonists and Jeremy Taylor, to Bishop Joseph Butler's Analogy of Religion, Natural …

Santa Clara Magazine, Volume 29 Number 1, Fall 1986, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara Magazine

10 - IS SANTA CLARA STILL JESUIT? Declining vocations prompt this recurring question. Some of the faculty discuss what makes Santa Clara Jesuit to them. By Peg Major

16 - DON'T CALL ME MR. MOM Taking over the day care of his two tiny daughters while his wife worked provided this alumnus new insight on fatherhood. By Jim Craven

21 - PERSPECTIVES OF A PATRIARCH The spotlight is on Tom Bannan, class of '23, who started the procession of Bannans to Santa Clara. BY Paul Hennessy

26 - HOW NOT TO MAKE MONEY ON THE STOCK MARKET A guide to …

Prophetic Consciousness: Obedience And Dissent In The Religious Life, Sandra Marie Schneiders

Jesuit School of Theology

Discipleship, as we all know, is a vocation to which one can never respond in a final and definitive way. It is a call to ongoing conversion, to an ever deeper appreciation of the mystery of Christ. To be a disciple is to incarnate the identity and mission of Jesus in our own personal, historical, and cultural context. For us, then, discipleship means living ever more deeply and effectively the mystery of Christ in the American Church of the late twentieth century.

There is a characteristic of our recent American Catholic experience that is at once glaringly evident and profoundly …

Communication, Cultural Form And Theology, Paul A. Soukup

Communication

This essay explores some relationships between the areas of communication science and theology, beginning with a brief examination of what is called the 'cultural studies' model of communication and the institutional roles of communication in contemporary society. The second section presents a look at some models of communication interacting with theology in an earlier historical era, while the third reviews some contemporary models of communication within theology. The last section also examines the contemporary period but focusses on more specific projects.

Conversion To Discipleship, Sandra Marie Schneiders

Jesuit School of Theology

Discipleship is a vocation to which one can never respond in a final and definitive way. It is a call to ongoing conversion, to an ever deeper appropriation of the mystery of Christ. To be a disciple is to incarnate the identity and mission of Jesus in our own personal, historical, and cultural context. For us, then, conversion to discipleship means formation in and for the American Church of the late 20th century.