Abstract
How can the Catholic university reconstruct itself to bring the resources of Catholic tradition to bear on our common task of rebuilding the house of learning? The Catholic university needs to inhabit the domain of secular learning and Christian knowledge. The participation of Catholic intellectual and universities in the postmodern dialogue will benefit the entire intellectual community.
Highlights
How can the Catholic university reconstruct itself to bring the resources of Catholic tradition to bear on our common task of rebuilding the house of learning? The Catholic university needs to inhabit the domains of secular learning and Christian knowledge
Father Newman's book was the keenest statement of the aims and ideals of a university education by any Victorian; it has been a regular source of embarrassment to all succeeding writers on the aims and ideals of university education, especially those who have the bad luck to be asked to address the challenges and dilemmas of the Catholic university
It is strange that a Roman Catholic priest, the rector of a Roman Catholic university, the great English spokesman of the principle of authority in the Church, would stress the separation between Church and university, the distinction of their roles, the autonomy of their functions
Summary
How can the Catholic university reconstruct itself to bring the resources of Catholic tradition to bear on our common task of rebuilding the house of learning? The Catholic university needs to inhabit the domains of secular learning and Christian knowledge. Father Newman's book was the keenest statement of the aims and ideals of a university education by any Victorian; it has been a regular source of embarrassment to all succeeding writers on the aims and ideals of university education, especially those who have the bad luck to be asked to address the challenges and dilemmas of the Catholic university. Because the Catholic university in America normally houses undergraduate colleges, its task does, in these respects, touch on eternal salvation. It does this work, if I may make the distinction, qua college and not qua university. At the back of our minds we suspect that a Catholic university cannot disentangle itself from the heavy hand of ecclesiastical authority—the long, legendary shadow of the Inquisition— without disengaging itself from Catholicism
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