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Informationen zum Autor Francis X. Clooney, S.J., is the Parkman Professor of Divinity at the Harvard Divinity School. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. This volume explores the irreducible diversity of their experiences and criticizes the dominant modern synthesis that shaped Jesuit institutions of education. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introducing Ourselves Chapter 2 Confessions of an Aristotelian Christian Chapter 3 A Philosophical Dissection of a Jesuit Scholar Chapter 4 What Difference Does It Make for Me as a Liturgist to be a Jesuit-or Vice Versa? Chapter 5 The American Jesuit Theologian Chapter 6 Philosophizing after the Holocaust Chapter 7 Studying Physics and Jesuit Life: Worldliness and Life as an Immigrant Chapter 8 Francis Xavier, and the World/s We (Don't Quite) Share Chapter 9 A Tale of Two Comings Out: Priest and Gay on a Catholic Campus Chapter 10 Epilogue: Do Jesuit Scholarly Endeavors Cohere? Self-Reckoning and the Postmodern Challenge
