J. Michael Stebbins is a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center, where he
has directed the Arrupe Program in Social Ethics for Business since 1994. The program aims
at giving business executives and managers an integrated and practical approach to
thinking about faith, the common good, and the demands of running a successful business.
It draws on the concrete experience of business leaders, the Spiritual Exercises of St.
Ignatius of Loyola, Catholic social teaching, and the theological method of Bernard
Lonergan as its primary resources. Dr. Stebbins holds an A.B. in philosophy from Gonzaga University (1977) and a B.S. in
nursing from the University of Washington (1981). Before going to graduate studies he
worked as a registered nurse at Children’s Hospital in Seattle. He received a Ph.D.
in theology from Boston College (1991), concentrating in the areas of systematic theology
and Christian ethics. Dr. Stebbins has taught undergraduate theology at Boston College
(1986-92) and Gonzaga University (1992-94). He is the author of a detailed study of the
doctrine of grace entitled The Divine
Initiative: Grace, World-Order, and Human Freedom in the Early Writings of Bernard
Lonergan (University of Toronto Press, 1995).
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