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A collection of essays stemming from college professors struggle to create an atmosphere of creative excellence and effective social justice for their undergraduate students. Love of Learning: Desire for Justice concerns the dynamic interplay between the life of the mind and spirit, where academics and social support work to strengthen each other.
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Undergraduate Education and the Option for the Poor
Edited by William Reiser, S.J.
Scranton: University of Scranton Press
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1995 By the University of Scranton Press
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 94-060876 ISBN 0-940866-41-2
University of Scranton Press Linden and Monroe Scranton PA 18510
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
William Reiser, S.J.
3
1.
A Church of the Poor and for the Poor
James F.X. Pratt, S.J.
13
2.
An Invitation to Conversation about Undergraduate Education and the Option for the Poor
Mary E. Morton
23
3.
The Option for the Poor and Undergraduate Education
David J. O'Brien
31
4.
"Love Your Enemies" and the Option for the Poor
David Gill, S.J.
43
5.
Thoughts on Personal Wealth
Peter Perkins
57
6.
Childhood Poverty: Sociology and the Option for the Poor
David M. Hummon
63
7.
Option versus Options for the Poor: Selected Economic Issues
Charles H. Anderton and David K. W. Chu
77
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Not a Private Matter: Pedagogies and Strategies for Institutional Change
Carolyn Howe
95
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Holy Cross' Mission in Light of the Preferential Option for the Poor
Mauri A. Ditzler
103
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A Preferential Option for the Poor: Social Justice and Curriculum Reform
Gary P. DeAngelis
115
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Women and the Option for the Poor
Mary Ann Hinsdale, I.H.M.
123
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Afterword: Where Do We Go from Here?
William Reiser, S.J.
131
Select Bibliography
137
LOVE OF LEARNING: DESIRE FOR JUSTICE
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Introduction
Towards the end of the fall semester of 1992, a group of faculty members began speaking together about the meaning of the preferential option for the poor. The occasion of our coming together was our desire to contribute to the sesquicentennial events at Holy Cross College during the 1993-94 academic year. We decided to plan a symposium which would coincide with the anniversary of the deaths of the Jesuit educators at the Catholic University in El Salvador who were murdered on November 16, 1989. Because of its sudden and dramatic political repercussions, that event has been called the turning point in El Salvador's long, bloody civil war; it certainly has impressed upon Jesuits everywhere, and many of their colleagues, the risk of educating people for justice:
But the turning point of the offensive, and of the war itself, came during the early hours of November 16th, when commandos scaled the back wall of the shady campus of the University of Central America, roused five Jesuit priests from sleep, ordered them to lie with their faces against the ground, and emptied automatic weapons into their brains. Before they departed, the soldiers killed a sixth priest, the Jesuits' cook, and her fifteen-year-old daughter. The scene they left behind -- the obliterated skulls of the priests, the green lawn soaked in blood and brains, the fantastically redundant number of spent cartridges -- was one of spectacular carnage. 1
The phrase "option for the poor" originated within the Latin
1. Mark Danner, The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War (New York: Vintage Books, 1994), 155-56
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American church. The idea figured prominently in the deliberations of the Latin American bishops assembled in the Mexican city of Puebla in 1979, although its roots went back to their meeting in Medellin, Colombia, eleven years earlier. The bishops at Puebla wrote: "With renewed hope in the vivifying power of the Spirit, we are going to take up once again the position of the Second General Conference of the Latin American episcopate in Medellin, which adopted a clear and prophetic option expressing preference for, and solidarity with the poor... We affirm the need for conversion on the part of the whole Church to a preferential option for the poor, an option aimed at their integral liberation." 2
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