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The Ecumenical Dimension of the \u3ci\u3eSpiritual Exercises\u3c/i\u3e A Historical, Theological, and Practical Approach
Get PDFThis thesis explores the ecumenical dimension of the Spiritual Exercises of Loyola, asking to what extent the Exercises can be adapted to Christian denominations beyond the Catholic Church and how their practice in an ecumenical context promotes church unity. The thesis statement argues that the ecumenical dimension of the Spiritual Exercises is based on the importance given to Scripture within them, thus fostering a common sense of following Christ and a reform of life, indispensable conditions for any ecumenical dialogue. The study underscores how the Exercises can contribute to Christian unity through historical, theological, and practical lenses.
Historically (Chapter 1), the study examines two pivotal periods: the early Jesuits during the Reformation and the Second Vatican Council in the 20th century. In both contexts, the Jesuits recognized the Spiritual Exercises as a means of fostering a reform of life that deepens union with Christ. One of the first Jesuits, Pierre Favre, is highlighted as a key figure who embodied a profound desire for Christian unity and reconciliation, using the Exercises as a transformative encounter with Christ that transcended denominational boundaries.
Theologically (Chapter 2), the thesis sets out the necessary conditions for adapting the Exercises to an ecumenical context, emphasizing that the conversion to which they invite is both personal and ecclesial. It also characterizes the scriptural theology of the Exercises as being centered on the Holy Spirit and deeply rooted in the following of Christ. The study identifies specific theological challenges within an ecumenical context, such as the rules for “Thinking with the Church,” the role of Mary, and the First Week, offering potential ways to adapt these elements into an ecumenical context.
On the practical side (Chapter 3), the study proposes an adapted retreat for the Forum Chrétien Francophone, an ecumenical platform. This retreat integrates Exercises’ dynamics with the Forum’s practices, encouraging participants to deepen their relationship with Christ and advance church unity.
The study concludes that the adaptability of the Spiritual Exercises makes them a valuable tool for fostering ecumenical dialogue, especially when guided by spiritual directors attuned to different ecclesial traditions
Living Better with Spirituality Based Strategies that Work: Workbook for Spiritually Informed Therapy (First Edition)
No full textLiving Better with Spirituality Based Strategies that Work: Workbook for Spiritually Informed Therapy is designed to serve as a practical workbook or companion book to Spiritually Informed Therapy that can be used by therapists with their clients, faculty with their students, or with the general public to put key evidence-based principles into actual practice. The workbook features numerous exercises and practical strategies that can help readers examine and implement core tenets from Jesuit spirituality into their everyday and contemporary life.The core tenets from Jesuit spirituality introduced throughout the book include seeing God (or the sacred) in all things, treating the whole person, using a pathway for decision-making focusing on discernment, ending the day with a five-step reflection, managing conflicts with accommodation, humility, the expectation for goodness, and more. The text features real-world case studies that demonstrate how Jesuit spirituality has helped individuals work through their challenges and discover greater overall wellness.Living Better with Spirituality Based Strategies that Work is an innovative workbook that can be paired with Thomas G. Plante’s textbook, Spiritually Informed Therapy, or can be used independently by individuals interested in learning how faith-based principles can enrich their life and experiences.https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/faculty_books/1588/thumbnail.jp
VoxArt: Handcrafting Vocal Audio Effects
No full textMusicians, specifically vocalists, need new ways to integrate artistic expression into their craft. VoxArt is a system utilizing hand movements to control digital audio effects. Giving artistic expression into the hands of the vocalist as a conductor is to an orchestra emphasizing vocals with hand movements will have new meaning for vocalists. The development of the project aimed to use simple, easy to use off the shelf hardware such as a sensor on a glove to measure hand angle positions and in effect, alter audio effect parameters using a closed loop control system. Research and development has led to the creation of a wired sensor glove connected to a central processing unit with the ability to control pitch shift and reverb using specific hand adjustments controlled via state machine logic. Musicians are able to utilize the system through the input and output 3.5mm audio jacks. Vocalists need a smart, portable, and easy-to-use audio effects control method to focus on their music production, and VoxArt provides a solution
Cultivating a Sustainable Tomorrow: Community Gardens and Food Security in the City of Santa Clara
No full textThe City of Santa Clara faces significant challenges in ensuring equitable access to food for its residents, particularly amid rising living costs and economic disparities. Addressing these challenges requires a multifaceted approach that tackles immediate food security concerns, broader environmental sustainability issues, and overall community well-being.
Santa Clara is a dynamic community characterized by diversity and innovation. It is uniquely positioned with several resources that need better dissemination. Enhancing support for residents\u27 food security needs through increased knowledge sharing and resource provision in community areas stands out as an efficient strategy to address two key focus areas in Santa Clara\u27s Climate Action Plan.
This initiative aims to inform residents about available food resources, reduce hunger rates, and create welcoming community spaces that support sustainability efforts for all diverse populations
Chicana/Latina Mother-Leaders: Balancing K-12 Leadership and Motherhood Amidst Covid-19
No full textThis dissertation explores the experiences of Chicana/Latina mother-leaders in K-12 education during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on how they managed their dual roles as educators and mothers amidst unprecedented times. The study utilized pláticas with four school leaders from Northern California to investigate how they balanced professional and personal responsibilities during and after the onset of the pandemic. Grounded in Chicana Feminist Epistemology (CFE), the research highlights the lived experiences and cultural insights of Chicanas/Latinas, extending cultural intuition to include motherhood intuition, which is defined in this study. It also incorporates Gloria Anzaldúa’s concepts of conocimiento, Nepantla, and the Coyolxauhqui Imperative, which, when intertwined within the CFE framework, shed light on how these mother-leaders navigated their intersecting identities during the crisis.
The findings reveal that the pandemic not only exacerbated existing disparities but also underscored the resilience, adaptability, and community-oriented leadership of Chicana/Latina mother-leaders. Despite facing increased mental health challenges and systemic inequities, they drew strength from their own lived realities, conocimiento, cultural and motherhood intuition to navigate mothering and school leadership. The study also reveals their current efforts to live in Nepantla and applying the Coyocaulqui Imperative as they strive to prioritize their healing in leading and mothering as Chicana/Latinas today
The Schatten Classes of Calderón–Zygmund Operators
No full textWe prove sufficient conditions for a Calderón–Zygmund operator to belong to the Schatten classes. As in the classical T1 theory, the conditions are given in terms of the smoothness of the operator kernel, and the action of both the operator and its adjoint on the function 1. To show membership to the Schatten class when we develop new bump estimates for composed Calderón–Zygmund operators, and a new extension of Carleson’s Embedding Theorem
Cross-National Variations in Scientific Ethics: Exploring Ethical Perspectives Among Scientists in China, the US, and the UK
No full textThis research explores the perspectives of academic physicists from three national contexts concerning their roles and responsibilities within the realm of science. Using a dataset comprised of 211 interviews with scientists working in China, the United States, and the United Kingdom, the study seeks to explain whether and in what manner physicists conceptualize scientific ethics within a global or national framework. The empirical findings bring to light disparities across nations in the physicists’ perceptions of what constitutes responsible mentorship and engagement in public service. These cross-national variations underscore the moral agency of physicists as they navigate the ethical standards embraced by the global scientific community vis-à-vis those that are specific to their respective national contexts. The study’s empirical insights may carry significant implications for both policymakers and ethicists, underscoring the imperative of soliciting and acknowledging the perspectives of academic scientists working and living in disparate national contexts when formulating comprehensive science ethics frameworks. Such inclusive and context-aware approaches to shaping ethics in science can contribute to the cultivation of a more robust and universally relevant ethical foundation for the scientific community
Ray Kea and the Historians of the Gold Coast: Debates Over Continuity and Rupture in African and African Diaspora Atlantic Histories
No full textThe central role of Gold Coast societies, ports, and cities in the emerging Atlantic circuit is critical to understanding the history of the Atlantic world. The study of the causes and effects of Gold Coast societies’ transition from African polities and economies to transatlantic entrepots and trading emporiums and their subsequent impact on the Americas has been the hallmark of Ray Kea\u27s scholarship. Since the beginning of his career, Kea has been a significant contributor to the study of the African Atlantic, and the field\u27s various debates and disciplinary evolutions. While many scholars of the Gold Coast recognize Kea\u27s work as foundational to scholarship on the Gold Coast, engagement with his work has not been rigorous. Kea is often cited in bibliographies and aspects of his work have served as benchmarks for other forays into Gold Coast histories. However, there is a need to go beyond an appreciation for Kea as a trailblazer, passing reference of his scholarship, and bibliographic citation of his work to a more thorough and consistent discourse with his major ideas and propositions. Kea has been, for example, adept at integrating innovations and ideas in various disciplinary arenas. He dexterously applies Marxist and postmodernist theories, diverse historiographies of the Atlantic world, and conceptual tools to traditional archival and oral historical data in his analyses of Gold Coast and diasporic societies. This review essay argues for Kea\u27s importance and the need for a deeper engagement with his work in the field by putting his work into conversation with both classic Atlantic historiographies and recent scholarship that has built off Kea\u27s
A Retrospective and Prospective Roundtable on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Horizons - Editor’s Introduction to Horizons v.51 no.1
No full textAfter tracing the history of the term “spirituality” and the discipline of spirituality up to the mid-twentieth century, this article describes the contemporary understanding of spirituality as lived religious experience and of the academic discipline which studies this subject. This phenomenology of the discipline grounds a position on the relationship between lived spirituality and theology on the one hand, and the academic disciplines of spirituality and theology on the other.
In addition to six peer-reviewed articles, the “creative teaching” feature, and an editorial essay, the Fall 1986 issue of Horizons featured an editorial symposium titled “Catholicism and Modernity” and a book review symposium on W. W. Meissner’s Psychoanalysis and Religious Experience. Walter Conn was in his sixth year as editor, and he consistently crafted issues with challenging features and ground-breaking articles.
In our third golden anniversary roundtable, the editors have chosen to feature Sandra Schneiders’s Fall 1986 article, “Theology and Spirituality: Strangers, Rivals, or Partners?.” It has become a classic and is the most cited article of the Horizons corpus. A decade before the Pew Charitable Trusts sponsored the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, and decades before that center surveyed Americans on questions about practices they would call spiritual, Schneiders was trying to identify trends and map definitions about spirituality, especially about spirituality as a field of study.
To be sure, multiple factors affect what eventually gets published in any particular issue, and so I do not know if well-planned timing on editor Conn’s part played a role or if it was simply serendipity that put the two symposia and Schneiders’s article in the same issue. Nonetheless, the symposia offer robust reflections that open a window on some aspects of practicing Catholic theology and the development of religious studies in the mid-1980s; it is interesting to read these features alongside Schneiders’s article, and I encourage readers to revisit those works.
Professor Min-Ah Cho of Georgetown University generously agreed to guide us through a consideration of Schneiders’s 1986 article and its continuing importance. Among other insights, Cho challenges us to rethink what interconnections and union with God, one another, and self mean in a human landscape reshaped by artificial intelligence, a pandemic, and ongoing social, political, and economic polarizations
Escalating Political Violence and the Intersectional Impacts on Latinas in National Politics
No full textDrawing on interviews with Latina congressional members and candidates, this article examines the impacts of escalating political violence on their professional lives and political careers, as well as the implications for the growing body of women of color who are engaging in public service at the national level