CENTERS & PROGRAMS

Woodstock Center @ Georgetown University
http://woodstock.georgetown.edu/

Independent, non-profit institute, located at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.  Instituted in 1974 to develop and use a new theological method to address contemporary human dilemmas. The center engages in “theological and ethical reflection” on topics of “social, economic, business, scientific, cultural, religious and political importance,” and bases its approach on the combination of Bernard Lonergan’s theological method with the spirituality of St. Ignatius Loyola. The Woodstock Center is financed by individual private grants and contributions from the Society of Jesus. 

Hosts and sponsors numerous faith-based events and publications. In October of 2007, the WC co-sponsored (with Georgetown’s The Center For Social Justice) a seminar: The Faith That Does Justice in a Pluralistic World: Facing the Challenges and Imagining the Future. Additionally the center houses the Woodstock Theological Center Library, offering 170,000 volumes, including 17,500 rare theological titles. J. Leon Hooper, S.J. is the Director of the Library. 

Gasper F. Lo Biondo, S.J. is the Director of the Woodstock Center, and heads the Global Economy and Cultures Project, with the stated aspiration of developing the “...tools to empower the poor to exercise control on how globalization affects their lives within the context of their own culture.”  Like the Woodstock Center itself, Biondo’s project is based in part on the Ignatius method and envisions the partnerships that social centers and communities will establish with, among other entities, NGOs.  For more, see:
http://woodstock.georgetown.edu/publications/report/r-fea77a.htm

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