The Catholic University as Promise and Project
The Catholic University as Promise and Project

Author: Michael J. Buckley, SJ

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 1999-03-11

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9781589018716

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The remarkable development of the Catholic university in the United States has raised issues about its continued identity, its promise, and its academic constituents. Michael J. Buckley, SJ, explores these questions, especially as they have been experienced in Jesuit history and contemporary commitments. 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 is towards the understanding of itself and of its relationship to every other dimension of human life. This mutual involvement requires a union between faith and culture that defines the purposes of Catholic higher education. In their earliest and normative documents, Jesuit universities have been encouraged to achieve this integration through the central role given to theology. Buckley explores two commitments that implicate contemporary Catholic universities in controversy: an insistence upon open, free discussion and academic pluralism—to the objections of some in the Church; and an education in the promotion of justice—to the objections of some in the academy. Finally, to strengthen philosophical and theological studies, Buckley suggests both a "philosophical grammar" that would discover and study the assumptions and methods involved in the various forms of disciplined human inquiry and a set of "theological arts" founded upon the more general liberal arts. Entering into the contemporary discussion about the Catholic university, this book offers inspiring and thought-provoking ideas for those engaged in Catholic higher education.

The Challenge and Promise of a Catholic University
The Challenge and Promise of a Catholic University

Author: Theodore Martin Hesburgh

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 9780268008031

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This is a position paper, with contributions from a range of academics, on the question of how a Catholic university can preserve its character while avoiding both secularisation and insular sectarianism.

Academic Freedom and the Telos of the Catholic University
Academic Freedom and the Telos of the Catholic University

Author: K. Garcia

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-08-31

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 1137031921

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There are currently no books on Catholic higher education that offer a theological foundation for academic freedom. This book presents a theologically grounded understanding of academic freedom that builds on, extends, and completes the prevailing secular understanding for Catholic higher education.

What We Hold in Trust
What We Hold in Trust

Author: Don Briel

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2021-03-19

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0813233801

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The specific concern in What We Hold in Trust comes to this: the Catholic university that sees its principal purpose in terms of the active life, of career, and of changing the world, undermines the contemplative and more deep-rooted purpose of the university. If a university adopts the language of technical and social change as its main and exclusive purpose, it will weaken the deeper roots of the university’s liberal arts and Catholic mission. The language of the activist, of changing the world through social justice, equality and inclusion, or of the technician through market-oriented incentives, plays an important role in university life. We need to change the world for the better and universities play an important role, but both the activist and technician will be co-opted by our age of hyper-activity and technocratic organizations if there is not first a contemplative outlook on the world that receives reality rather than constructs it. To address this need for roots What We Hold in Trust unfolds in four chapters that will demonstrate how essential it is for the faculty, administrators, and trustees of Catholic universities to think philosophically and theologically (Chapter One), historically (Chapter Two) and institutionally (Chapters Three and Four). What we desperately need today are leaders in Catholic universities who understand the roots of the institutions they serve, who can wisely order the goods of the university, who know what is primary and what is secondary, and who can distinguish fads and slogans from authentic reform. We need leaders who are in touch with their history and have a love for tradition, and in particular for the Catholic tradition. Without this vision, our universities may grow in size, but shrink in purpose. They may be richer but not wiser.

A Catholic University
A Catholic University

Author: Terrence J. Murphy

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780814651018

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"A Catholic University: Vision and Opportunities describes how a Catholic vision enabled a small college to increase its size fivefold and to become a university. Entrepreneurial leadership enabled the College of St. Thomas (now University of St. Thomas) in St. Paul, Minnesota, to relate its religious convictions to opportunities to educate new publics and thus have an enhanced role in the community and the Church. Monsignor Murphy identifies what makes a university "Catholic" and how that identity is an integral driving force of a university."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Idea of a Catholic University
The Idea of a Catholic University

Author: Dennis O'Brien

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2002-04-15

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780226616612

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George Bernard Shaw thought that a Catholic university was a contradiction in terms—"university" represents intellectual freedom and "Catholic" represents dogmatic belief. Scholars, university administrators, and even the Vatican have staked out positions debating Shaw's observation. In this refreshing book, George Dennis O'Brien argues that contradiction arises both from the secular university's limited concept of academic freedom and the church's defective notion of dogma. Truth is a central concept for both university and church, and O'Brien's book is built on the idea that there are different areas of truth—scientific, artistic, and religious—each with its own proper warrant and "method." In this light, he argues that one can reverse Shaw's comparison and uncover academic dogma and Christian freedom, university "infallibility" and dogmatic "fallibility." Drawing on theology and the history of philosophy, O'Brien shows how religious truth relates to the work of a Catholic university. He then turns to the current controversies over Pope John Paul II's recent statement, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, which seeks to make Catholic universities conform to the church's official teaching office. O'Brien rejects the conventional "institutional-juridical" model used by the Vatican as improper both to faith and academic freedom. He argues for a "sacramental" model, one that respects the different kinds of "truth"—thus preserving the integrity of both church and university while making their combination in a Catholic university not only possible but desirable. O'Brien concludes with a practical consideration of how the ideal Catholic university might be expressed in the actual life of the contemporary curriculum and extracurriculum. For anyone concerned about the place of religion in higher education, The Idea of a Catholic University will be essential reading.

A Call to Fidelity
A Call to Fidelity

Author: James J. Walter

Publisher: Georgetown University Press

Published: 2002-10-17

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9781589012745

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A Call to Fidelity seeks to thoughtfully examine and critically evaluate the contributions that Charles E. Curran has made to the field of Catholic moral theology over the past forty years. It also seeks to assess the development of specific topics in contemporary moral theology to which Curran has made his unique mark, particularly in fundamental ethics, sexual and medical ethics, social and political ethics, and topics related to dialogue with other traditions and approaches to Catholic ethics. Reviewing the many years of his influential writings, thought, and scholarship, fourteen distinguished scholars examine his contributions and the current state of the topics under discussion-which are as far ranging as academic freedom, birth control, gay and lesbian relationships, and feminism. Each contributor also provides a critical evaluation of Curran's work and outlines how these areas will hold or undergo transformation as the church looks toward its relationship with society and culture in the coming decades.