Welcome to the web page of the Jesuit Institute
at Boston College. The Jesuit Institute seeks to serve the Boston College community
as an intellectual resource that encourages dialogue and discussion around the
areas of faith and culture. While many of our programs relate immediately and
directly to the intellectual life here on campus: the faculty seminars, the
lectures, important disputed questions of the day, and short colloquia addressing
a particular issue, the Institute also intends an outreach to the larger scholarly
community both in the United States and Abroad. The Institute hosts two Visiting
Fellows each year in order to provide time, space and support to mid-range and
senior scholars who are reflecting on issues that are of interest to the mission
of the Institute. In past years the Jesuit Institute has also supported a number
of national and international conferences. These meetings have produced a host
of publications of almost every type. Our vision is to communicate the Catholic
and Jesuit identity of Boston College, but precisely through the intellectual
life - that pursuit of knowledge and truth that we hold so dear. Earnest and
honest dialogue, broadly fixed around the great and central issues of human
identity, and especially in the context of faith and culture is the goal of
the Jesuit Institute at Boston College.
T. Frank Kennedy, SJ