A multidisciplinary program in the Creighton College of Arts & Sciences, is a response to the challenge of Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., Superior General of the Jesuits, to "educate the whole person for solidarity with the real world."

The Kripke Center is dedicated to facilitating scholarly activity in the areas of religion and society in the form of research, publications, conferences, seminars, symposia, lectures, and fora.