François Pomey’s Candidatus rhetoricae and Its Revisions as Documents of the History of Jesuit Rhetorical Education Manfred Kraus Universität Tübingen Originally published: March 1, 2021 DOI: 10.51238/ISJS.2019.05 Writing the history of Jesuit education is not an easy task. But it gets particularly difficult when it comes to elucidating what actually went […]
A three-day workshop begins October 2 at the Istituto Sangalli in Florence. The event features a number of scholars from around the world to present on the topic “Entangled Knowledges: Education and Culture in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (XIIIth-XIXth C).” This is the fifth international workshop hosted by the Istituto Sangalli, allowing emerging scholars
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A call for papers is now available for the Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education Conference, to be held at Georgetown University on June 3-6, 2020. The event marks two decades, according to organizers, “since the first Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education Conference, held at Santa Clara University in 2000, when Fr. Peter-Hans
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Rome hosted a meeting of some 70 rectors and presidents of Jesuit universities and colleges in August 1975. In addition to receiving remarks from Pope Paul VI and Cardinal Gabriel-Marie Garrone (the prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education), the delegates heard two homilies by Pedro Arrupe. The Jesuit superior general delivered the following homily
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In the following decree, the delegates of the 34th General Congregation note that since the 32nd and 33rd congregations of 1975 and 1983, respectively, Jesuit secondary education had experienced “significant apostolic renewal,” increased Jesuit-lay collaboration, and an improvement in educational quality. The recommendations and words of caution in this following decree seek to encourage further
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The delegates at the 31st General Congregation were asked by their fellow Jesuits to articulate how they ought to teach at colleges and universities, according to Jesuit historian John Padberg, “in the light of the characteristics of our vocation and in the light of the theological doctrine on the character and office of the priest
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A free service provided by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, the Portal offers informed direction to some of the richest materials associated with the Society of Jesus located at a variety of websites. The Portal grants online access to a curated and fully searchable collection of important primary sources and some of the latest secondary
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