Arrupe Award Winner Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J. To Speak April 17

Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J., the 2024 University of Scranton Arrupe Award winner will present: "Jesus and the Earth: Seeing Christ Through an Ecological Lens," on Wednesday, April 17, from 6 p.m. at the Moskovitz Theater,  DeNaples Center, 4th Floor.

The University of Scranton created the Arrupe Award in 1995 to recognize persons who have furthered in a significant way the Ignatian mission. Recipients are chosen both for the Ignatian vision which they bring to their ministry and their outstanding contributions to the Ignatian mission. The award is named for the late Very Rev. Pedro Arrupe, S.J., the 28th Superior General of the Society of Jesus. Father Arrupe articulated a dynamic vision of the Ignatian mission and its ministry for contemporary times.

Johnson has been hailed by The National Catholic Reporter as “one of the country’s most prominent and respected theologians.” She has served as president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. She is internationally known for her work in systematic, feminist and ecological theology. In her 11 books and numerous articles, she has offered groundbreaking perspectives on traditional Catholic thought. 

Born in Brooklyn, New York, the oldest of seven children, she joined the Sisters of Saint Joseph in the late 1950s. After earning a bachelor’s degree at Brentwood College and a master’s degree at Manhattan College in 1964, she taught science and religion to elementary and high school students. Empowered by the Second Vatican Council, over the next two decades, she helped usher in a broader range of possibilities for Catholic religious and lay women. In 1981, she became the first woman to earn a doctorate in theology at the Catholic University of America, where she taught for a decade.

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