Sobrino Student Colloquium on Worship, Theology, and Justice
November 21, 2025
12PM—6PM
Information Commons, 4th Floor, Lakeshore Campus
As part of Ignatian Heritage Month, the Hank Center for the Intellectual Heritage and Campus Ministry invite undergraduate students to participate in a research colloquium dedicated to the great Salvadoran priest and theologian, Jon Sobrino. While most remembered for his pioneering work in Liberation Theology, Sobrino was a priest whose pastoral ministry and daily celebration of the liturgy informed his entire life. Sobrino, then, embodied a sacramental structure of the Christian life which is nourished in worship, deepened through theological reflection, and expressed through acts of justice in the world. This colloquium, brings together undergraduate scholars from Loyola University Chicago and seeks to provide an opportunity for theological reflection rooted in worship and the Catholic intellectual tradition, and oriented outward in loving service to our world.
The theme of this year’s colloquium is “Ignatian Humanism” and invites papers exploring this theme from a wide variety of angles which are themselves organized around the four Universal Apostolic Preferences Jesuit ministries are called to engage and embody: Showing the Way to God Through the Spiritual Exercises and Discernment; Walking with the Excluded; Journeying with Youth; and Caring for our Common Home.