Distinguished Faculty Lecture

Dr. William O’Neill, Associate Professor of Social Ethics at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (JST-SCU), will deliver the 2015 Distinguished Faculty Lecture entitled, “A Terrible Beauty: Reimagining Human Rights.”

In nonwestern usage, “rights talk” is less talk about individual rights than the talk that rights make possible, such as the victims’ testimony in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Here...

Dr. Christopher Ocker, Professor of Church History at San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS), will deliver the 2014 Distinguished Faculty Lecture entitled, "Reformations that Matter (and Some that Don’t)."

Does the Reformation matter? Protestant traditionalists, evangelical activists, Catholic conciliarists, and European and American secularists have all claimed ownership. Pundits say: Islam needs one, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews have had their...

Dr. William Short, Dean and Professor of Christian Spirituality at FST will deliver the 2013 Distinguished Faculty Lecture entitled “From Paris to Alcalá: The Franciscan School and the University, 1219-1533.”

Franciscans arrived in medieval Paris (1219) and, despite dramatic conflicts, made significant contributions at the University there, moving from philosophy to theology.  Cisneros, the Franciscan founder of Alcalá (1499), reimagined the...