Santa Clara University

Tom Powers, S.J.

Fr. Powers, Executive Director for Counseling Psychology and Pastoral Ministries in the School of Education, Counseling Psychology and Pastoral Ministries, 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. His research has taken him to Peru and Spain where he has investigated the theological work being done by women in those countries. In 2003, the State University of New York Press published his book, The Call of God: Women Doing Theology in Peru.

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

Phone: (408) 554-4322
E-mail: tjpowers@scu.edu