2011 H. James Yamauchi, S.J. Lecture in Religion: "We The People: A Vision of the Church Still Unachieved" (original) (raw)

In a Jesuit university, with all the encouragement and concern in the air to create habits of service within students, I sometimes feel a little "ivory tower" that my specific academic focus has a lot more to do with ideas. This can seem a little more abstract and removed from the immediate needs of specific persons. But I also know that the ideas we have in our heads -the ways we interpret reality -then lead us to shape reality in concrete ways. By addressing ideas specifically, I try to help students see how their concepts lead directly to their priorities and their choices, and that their ideas therefore are among the most practical of all their efforts, resulting not just in philosophies and theologies, but in different political, social, cultural, and economic results.

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