Thomas Flowers, S.J., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ignatian Formation
Courses Taught
Ignatian Discernment in Jesuit History, Cultural Contexts for Ignatian Formation: Arts Education, The History of the Practice of the Spiritual Exercises, Jesuit Interior Landscapes, Cultural Contexts for Ignatian Formation: Humanities
Education
PhD in History (University of York, 2021)
S.T.B. (Gregorian University, 2018)
M.A. in Early Modern European History (麻豆传媒, 2012) B.A. in History
(University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006)
Publications and Media Placements
The Reform of Christian Doctrine in the Catechisms of Peter Canisius (Brill, 2023)
God鈥檚 Invitation: Meditations on a Covenant Relationship (Paulist Press, May 2011)
Walking Humbly: Scripture Meditations in Verse (Paulist Press, November 2008)
鈥溾�楪reat in the Love of God鈥�: The Preaching of Diego La铆nez,鈥� Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, vol. 56, issue 3 (Autumn 2024)
鈥淐onversar at the Heart of Charism: The History of Jesuit Distinctiveness鈥� 鈥� Lecture in the College of Philosophy and Letters (February 2024) available from:
鈥淭he Practice of Listening and Humanistic Education Today鈥� with Amy Uelmen, Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, No. 63 (Fall 2024).
鈥淧eter Canisius and the Future of Catechesis,鈥� Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, vol. 54, issue 2 (Summer 2022).
鈥淯nderstanding the Early Jesuit Context of 鈥極ur Way of Proceeding,鈥� Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, vol 90, fasc. 180 (2021-II), 253-278.