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September 17, 2014
Volume C Issue 5
ISSJ provides new opportunities National ranking places Xavier fifth in Midwest through Theology Department
BY TAYLOR FULKERSON Managing Editor Community engagement is one of the most common phrases used at Xavier. Now, Xavier’s Theology Department is ready to interpret that phrase for itself. The Institute for Spirituality and Social Justice (ISSJ) is a new initiative of the Theology Department that will offer gradXDWH GHJUHHV DQG FHUWLĂ€FDWH SURgrams as well as workshops for professionals in the Cincinnati area. The institute held events this summer, attracting community members and students to a workshop on Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation “The Joy of the Gospelâ€? and a Saturday Sampler featuring free workshops with institute faculty. Paul Knitter, Professor Emeritus of Theology at Xavier and the Paul Tillich Professor of Theology, World Religions and Culture at Union Theological Seminary in New York will help the ISSJ with its kick-off at 7 p.m. on Sept. 28 in the Cintas Center. Many communities The graduate programs offered by the ISSJ will be available to Xavier students in the form of D Ă€YH \HDU % $ DQG 0 $ FRPbined degree. 7KH Ă€YH \HDU SURJUDP ZLOO DOlow students to apply to the institute and begin taking classes as juniors, even without a theology major. %HVLGHV VHUYLQJ ;DYLHU VWXdents, the ISSJ plans to reach out to professionals in the region. The ISSJ will also offer cerWLĂ€FDWH SURJUDPV WKDW FRQVLVW RI Ă€YH FRXUVHV ´WR HPSRZHU enhance or even re-tool professionals who are in professions other than pastoral ministry, or even for people who don’t have as strong an ethical background as they might like to have had,â€? 'U *LOOLDQ $KOJUHQ GLUHFWRU RI the Institute for Spirituality and Social Justice, said. %H\RQG DWWHPSWLQJ WR DWWUDFW various types of students and professionals to its offerings, the institute plans to broaden horizons through international study options as well. “There aren’t that many gradŠ2014
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