The Catholic university as promise and project: reflections in a Jesuit idiom

"The fundamental proposition that grounds the Catholic university, Buckley argues, is that the academic and the religious are intrinsically related. Academic inquiry encourages a process of questioning that leads naturally to issues of ultimate significance, while the experience of faith moves...

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Main Author: Buckley, Michael J. 1931-2019 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Press 1998
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Summary:"The fundamental proposition that grounds the Catholic university, Buckley argues, is that the academic and the religious are intrinsically related. Academic inquiry encourages a process of questioning that leads naturally to issues of ultimate significance, while the experience of faith moves towards the understanding of itself in relationship to every other dimension of human life. This mutual involvement of faith and culture defines the unique purposes of Catholic higher education ... Buckley explores two commitments that implicate contemporary Catholic universities in controversy: an insistence upon open, free discussion and academic pluralism--to the objection of some in the Church; and an education in the promotion of social justice--to the objections of some in the academy"--From publisher description.
Item Description:Contents: pt. 1. Crisis, choice, and the Catholic university -- 1. The Catholic university and the promise inherent in its identity -- 2. The church and its responsibility to foster knowledge -- 3. A conversation with a friend, [Professor David O'Brien] -- pt. 2. "The universities of the society" -- 4. Ignatius' understanding of the Jesuit university -- 5. Humanism and Jesuit theology -- pt. 3. Contemporary signs of contradiction -- 6. The search for a new humanism : the university and the concern for justice -- 7. The Catholic university as pluralistic forum -- pt. 4. Towards the love of wisdom -- 8. Philosophic grammar and the other disciplines -- 9. Wisdom, religion, and the liberal arts : towards the construction of theolog
Physical Description:XXV, 224 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:0878407103