JUSTICE EDUCATION In Jesuit Higher Education
FR. PEDRO ARRUPE, SJ VALENCIA 1973 • “Today, our prime educational objective must be to form men-and-women-for-others; men and women who will live not for themselves but for God and his Christ…men and women who cannot even conceive of the love of the love of God which does not include love for the least of their neighbors; men and women completely convinced that the love of God which does not issue in justice is a farce.”
FR. KOLVENBACH, S.J. (2000 SANTA CLARA) • All American universities, ours included, are under tremendous pressure to opt entirely for success in this sense. But what our students want - and deserve - includes but transcends this "worldly success" based on marketable skills. The real measure of our Jesuit universities lies in who our students become. • Tomorrow's "whole person" cannot be whole without an educated awareness of society and culture with which to contribute socially, generously, in the real world. Tomorrow's whole person must have, in brief, a well-educated solidarity.
FR. KOLVENBACH, S.J • We must therefore raise our Jesuit educational standard to "educate the whole person of solidarity for the real world." Solidarity is learned through "contact" rather than through " concepts…” When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the injustice others suffer, is the catalyst for solidarity which then gives rise to intellectual inquiry and moral reflection.
GENERAL CONGREGATIONS OF THE JESUITS • The contemporary Jesuit mission is the Society is the service of faith and the promotion in society of “that justice of the Gospel which is the embodiment of God’s love and saving mercy.” (G.C. 34, #24 c.f. )
GENERAL CONGREGATION 35 (DEC. 2 , #13) • To follow Christ bearing his Cross means announcing his Gospel of hope to the many poor who inhabit our world today. The world’s many properties represent thirsts that, ultimately, only he who is living water can assuage. Working for his Reign will often mean meeting material needs, but it will always mean much more, because human beings thirst at many levels; and Christ’s mission is directed to human beings. Faith and justice; it is never one without the other. Human beings need food, shelter, love, relationship, truth, meaning, promise, hope. Human beings need a future in which they can take hold of their full dignity; indeed they need an absolute future, a grateful that exceeds every particular hope.
FOSTERING A WELL-EDUCATED SOLIDARITY • Core curriculum • Integrated co-curriculum • Service and immersion learning programs • Cultivation of the imagination • Attention to social justice
A WELL-EDUCATED SOLIDARITY • BIBLICAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF JUSTICE • CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING • STRATEGIS IN • CLASSROOM • CAMPUS MINISTRY • ADMINISTRATION
IGNATIAN SPIRITUALITY AND JUSTICE • THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES: SERVICE AND JUSTICE AS A RESPONSE OF LOVE THE IGNATIAN PEDAGOGICAL PARADIGM • • Context Experience • • Reflection Action • • Evaluation
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