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DOI	10.1080/19422539.2016.1206401
	The Jesuit contribution to Christian education in Iraq: a personal reflection
	Seferta, Joseph
通讯作者	Seferta, J
来源期刊	INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN CATHOLIC EDUCATION
ISSN	1942-2539
EISSN	1942-2547
出版年	2016
卷号	8 期号:2 页码:193-201
英文摘要	There was a brief period in the long history of the suffering church in Iraq when it received a tremendous support that it could only dream about. That was between 1932 and 1969 when it was enriched by the presence of American Jesuits who gave the church much of the educational, moral and pastoral backing that it needed. In this article we shall investigate how the American Jesuits went to Iraq, what institutions they founded, what their philosophy of education was, what methods of education they employed, and how successful their mission in Iraq was. We shall also explore why they were eventually expelled and how their work in Baghdad was brought to an abrupt end. In 1932 some American Jesuits sailed the seas to Beirut and bussed across the desert to Baghdad. They went in answer to a request by the Chaldean Patriarch Mar Emmanuel II Toma that they start a secondary school for Christian boys. He himself was a graduate of the Jesuit Universite St. Joseph in Beirut. The patriarch had made his request known to Pope Pius XI who asked the Jesuit General, Fr. Wladimir Ledechowsky to approach the Jesuits in America because they were (and still are) the most numerous English-speaking Jesuits in the world. The New England Province undertook the project. Jesuits had passed through Mesopotamia before. St. Ignatius Loyola, their founder, had spent some time in the Holy Land, and dialoguing with Islam was one of his highest priorities. In 1850 two Jesuits were sent from Beirut to Baghdad to determine if the time was ripe for a Jesuit mission there. As their caravan was robbed on the way to and from Baghdad, they decided that the time was not yet ripe. So in 1932, the same year that Iraq gained its independence, four US Jesuits arrived in Baghdad. Initially they bought two houses by the Tigris and started Baghdad College, a high school for boys, with an enrolment of 120. The students were to increase eventually to 1000 at Baghdad College and 700 at the later Al-Hikma University.
英文关键词	Jesuit education Iraq Baghdad College Al-Hikma University American Jesuits
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	ESCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000386224600006
WOS类目	Religion
WOS研究方向	Religion
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/331643
作者单位	[Seferta, Joseph] Birmingham Archdiocesan Comm Interfaith Dialogue, Birmingham, W Midlands, England
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Seferta, Joseph. The Jesuit contribution to Christian education in Iraq: a personal reflection[J],2016,8(2):193-201.
APA	Seferta, Joseph.(2016).The Jesuit contribution to Christian education in Iraq: a personal reflection.INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN CATHOLIC EDUCATION,8(2),193-201.
MLA	Seferta, Joseph."The Jesuit contribution to Christian education in Iraq: a personal reflection".INTERNATIONAL STUDIES IN CATHOLIC EDUCATION 8.2(2016):193-201.

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