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The idea of a Catholic university

Title
The idea of a Catholic university / George Dennis O'Brien.
Author
O'Brien, Dennis, 1931-
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2002.

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239 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"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 pope have staked out positions about the accuracy of Shaw's comment. In this book, George Dennis O'Brien argues that this 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." With such a distinction in hand, he argues that one can reverse Shaw's comparison and uncover academic dogma and Christian freedom, university "infallibility" and dogmatic "fallibility.""--Jacket.
Subject
  • Catholic universities and colleges
  • Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
  • Katholische Universität
  • Universiteiten
  • Katholiek onderwijs
  • Katholische Universität
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-224) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- 1. Biblical foundations of the modern university -- 2. Science: the truth of universalities -- 3. Art: signatured truth -- 4. Religion: truth of presence -- 5. "I am the Truth" -- 6. Academic dogma and Catholic freedom -- 7. Fallible Church and infallible academy or infallible Church and fallible academy -- 8. A thought experiment: a Holocaust university -- 9. Ex Corde Ecclesiae -- 10. Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi -- 11. A contrarian university -- 12. Practical/praxis postscript -- Notes -- Index.
ISBN
  • 0226616614
  • 9780226616612
LCCN
2001051051
OCLC
  • ocm47995960
  • 47995960
  • SCSB-8917053
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library