Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-14-2025
Publisher
King's College
Abstract
When I worked as a Jesuit in my early years at Santa Clara University, I published an essay entitled “A Ratio Studiorum for the Postcolonialist’s Classroom.” I asserted that Ignatius, founder of that religious order, “saw education as a tool for social change, not merely as an opportunity for a value-free and objective exposure to Truth. . . . Education, much like the religious retreat described in his Spiritual Exercises, was to bring about a metanoia, a change of heart, in students.”1 This internal development was then meant to motivate action in the world. As I continued, “if there is some historical truth in the charge that Jesuit schools in the past produced clever casuists who invested little of themselves in their arguments, it is clear in today’s multicultural world, a world of conflicting hermeneutic structures, that making debating points will not equip a graduate for anyone’s reality.”2
Recommended Citation
Hawley, J. C. (2025). The Life You Save May Be Your Own. Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts, 4(1). https://zeal.kings.edu/zeal/article/view/125
Comments
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.