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Book SynopsisNine 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.
Table of ContentsChapter 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
