The Eye of Love - Symposium and book launch at Heythrop

A one-day Symposium at Heythrop College on Saturday, 1 July, will celebrate the Jesuit educational ‘genius’ and intellectual tradition, and the launch of: Philosophy, Theology and the Jesuit Tradition: ‘The Eye of Love.’ (Bloomsbury, 2017).

The scholars represented in this volume are associated with Heythrop College, a Jesuit academic foundation which dates its original foundation to 1614, though since 1970 it has found a home as ‘the specialist college of theology and philosophy in the University of London’. The volume offers contributions to a ‘new renaissance’ on topics such as faith and spirituality, science and reason, secularism, naturalism, humanism and Jesuit education.

Rowan Williams, in his foreword to ‘The Eye of Love’, describes Ignatius’ ‘theology of educating’ in terms of the assumption that ‘the ultimate point of education is that we should be able to live as God purposes us to live, that we realize our ultimate end. Education is either about becoming what we are finally meant to be or it is about nothing’. The Jesuit educational institution is ‘one in which shared responsibility and shared involvement in growth in humanity towards God’s purposes for humanity are at the centre of what is envisaged’.

Professor John Haldane and Dr John McDade will join Heythrop colleagues in presenting and developing the volume’s topics in a varied programme.

For more information and to book your place see: www.heythrop.ac.uk/eyeoflove