Fr. Arthur Lenti, S.D.B.
Adjunct Professor of Theology
Office phone: (510) 204-0816
E-mail: artlenti@aol.com
B.A., Don Bosco College; S.T.L. Salesian Pontifical Atheneum, Turin; S.T.L.,
Pontificia Universitą Salesiana, Rome; S.S.L., Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome.
And above all, check your resources. Be honest to the sources, and be honest about how you use other people's writings. I feel that teaching is not as personal as one would like to think. It should in reality be a credible interpretation of the scholarship of many scholars of many ages. The instructor's task is to do this with integrity.
Fr. Arthur teaches on the life and work of our founder, St. John Bosco
(1815-1888), in context. He is popularly known as Don Bosco. He lived during the period of the liberal revolutions that swept through Western Europe in the nineteenth century and that produced modern nation-states with new political and social orders. The liberal revolution removed the old "legitimate" rulers and greatly reduced the influence of the institutional Church. In particular, Italy was united
as a nation, and its new liberal institutions did away with the Papacy's temporal power.
Don Bosco began and expanded his humanitarian and religious work in a progressively secularized society and growing anticlerical hostility, while the Catholic forces struggled to come to grips with the momentous changes. In this context, Fr. Arthur's course aims at presenting a critical view of Don Bosco's life and work. It is not just a matter of describing what Don Bosco did, but why and how he did it. His students are challenged to decide for themselves what their own particular cultural and religious situations may require, and what the appropriate Christian response in those situations might be.
Fr. Arthur Lenti teaches one ISS course on Don Bosco's life and work. However he is also interested in Old Testament study, with an emphasis on its historical background.
Fr. Arthur Lenti, S.D.B.
Fr. Arthur teaches on the life and work of our founder, St. John Bosco
(1815-1888), in context. He is popularly known as Don Bosco. He lived during the period of the liberal revolutions that swept through Western Europe in the nineteenth century and that produced modern nation-states with new political and social orders. The liberal revolution removed the old "legitimate" rulers and greatly reduced the influence of the institutional Church. In particular, Italy was united
as a nation, and its new liberal institutions did away with the Papacy's temporal power.
Don Bosco began and expanded his humanitarian and religious work in a progressively secularized society and growing anticlerical hostility, while the Catholic forces struggled to come to grips with the momentous changes. In this context, Fr. Arthur's course aims at presenting a critical view of Don Bosco's life and work. It is not just a matter of describing what Don Bosco did, but why and how he did it. His students are challenged to decide for themselves what their own particular cultural and religious situations may require, and what the appropriate Christian response in those situations might be.