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The Archbishop of Canterbury's Building Bridges SeminarFor over ten years the Building Bridges Seminar has brought together a range of internationally recognized Christian and Muslim scholars for intensive study. Texts from...
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2004 Building Bridges Seminar, Washington, D.C.
In March 2004, Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia hosted the third Building Bridges Seminar, thus initiating a partnership between Georgetown University and...
2005 Building Bridges Seminar, Saravejo
With a developing pattern of venues alternating between majority Christian and majority Muslim contexts, the fourth Building Bridges Seminar was held in May 2005 in...
2006 Building Bridges Seminar, Washington, D.C.
Georgetown University was again the venue for the Building Bridges Seminar in March 2006. After the focus at Sarajevo on the relationship between religion, politics and...
2007 Building Bridges Seminar, Singapore
This seminar considered how the two traditions understand what it is to be human, addressing the themes of human dignity, human alienation and human destiny, as well as the...
2008 Building Bridges Seminar, Rome
The seventh Building Bridges Seminar was held in May 2008 at Villa Palazzola, a Cistercian monastery near Rome. This year’s proceedings were all held in private. The...
2010 Building Bridges Seminar, Washington, D.C.
The theme of the ninth Building Bridges Seminar, which was held in May 2010 at Georgetown University, Washington DC, was ‘Tradition and Modernity: Christian and Muslim...
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Only decades after its formation in 1540 the Society of Jesus had active missions around the world. In their global engagement Jesuits have combined a commitment to spread...
Education and the Human Person
The Jesuit contribution to global education can be traced from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius (1548) through today’s global network of Jesuit schools, colleges,...
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John Langan
John Langan, SJ, is the Cardinal Bernardin Chair in Catholic Social Thought in the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University. His research interests include ethics and international affairs, especially applications of just war theory; human rights in theory and practice; capital punishment; Catholic social teaching; the place of religion in liberal political thought; and the ethical theories of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine. He has edited Catholic Universities in Church and Society (1993) and A Moral Vision for America (1998). Langan holds an AB, MA, and PhL from Loyola University, as well as a BD from Woodstock College and PhD from the University of Michigan.