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 (Saint Louis University, 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’s Invitation: Meditations on a Covenant Relationship (Paulist Press, May 2011)
Walking Humbly: Scripture Meditations in Verse (Paulist Press, November 2008)
“‘Great in the Love of God’: The Preaching of Diego Laínez,” Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, vol. 56, issue 3 (Autumn 2024)
“Conversar at the Heart of Charism: The History of Jesuit Distinctiveness” – Lecture in the College of Philosophy and Letters (February 2024) available from: https://formation.jesuits.global/lectures/conversar-at-the-heart-of-charism-the-history-of-jesuit-distinctiveness/
“The Practice of Listening and Humanistic Education Today” with Amy Uelmen, Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, No. 63 (Fall 2024).
“Peter Canisius and the Future of Catechesis,” Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits, vol. 54, issue 2 (Summer 2022).
“Understanding the Early Jesuit Context of ‘Our Way of Proceeding,” Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, vol 90, fasc. 180 (2021-II), 253-278.