Santa Clara University

Faculty - Tom Powers, SJ, S.T.D.

Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries

Tom Powers, SJ, S.T.D.
Phone: (408) 554-4322

Tom Powers, SJ S.T.D.

Executive Director, Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries

Fr. Powers is a member of the California Province of the Society of Jesus. He completed his S.T.D. (doctorate in sacred theology) in systematic theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (JSTB). His research has taken him to Peru and Spain where he has investigated the theological work being done by women in those countries. The State University of New York Press published his book, The Call of God: Women Doing Theology in Peru, in 2003.

Fr. Powers was the founding director of The Center for Ignatian Spirituality at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and he taught theology there, at the University of San Francisco, and at JSTB. His courses have focused on Latin American and Feminist theology, spirituality, and ecclesiology.