Document Type
Scholarship
Abstract
During the 2025 meeting of the International Association of Jesuit Universities (IAJU) at the Pontifica Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, Jesuit Superior General Arturo Sosa offered the keynote address, “The Jesuit University: Witness to Hope, Creative and Dialogical Presence.” He urged the global university apostolate to respond to our common challenges: the climate crisis, political reactionism, institutional mistrust, and economic inequality. The Jesuit university, he insisted, must reimagine itself in order to respond to these threats. But the precise manner in which Jesuit universities should respond must still be articulated. This essay begins that project. It opens with an analysis of Sosa’s theological assumptions and then focuses on two of Sosa’s key priorities: ecological conversion and apostolic solidarity. Because these priorities are expressed as aspirations rather than plans, the essay imagines future possibilities in more concrete terms. First, the essay describes how an integral education might move Jesuit universities toward ecological conversion, and second, how institutional solidarity might move them toward apostolic solidarity.
Recommended Citation
Lynch, Paul L..
"Integral Education, Institutional Solidarity: A Response to Arturo Sosa’s 2025 IAJU Address."
Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal Vol. 15:
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15365/2164-7666.1531
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/jhe/vol15/iss1/4
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