Draw on the rich
Catholic intellectual tradition and other faith traditions to inform our students» capacity for self - reflection and social justice;
Here
the Catholic intellectual tradition, in particular, is able to offer special light.
Ramos argues that Blondel's existentially - inflected explorations could provide a welcome complement to natural law «ethics - talk» that seems, at present, to be the only widely utilized product of the of
Catholic intellectual tradition.
The Catholic intellectual tradition and, more specifically, Catholic social teaching long predate our historical moment, as, for that matter, does reflection on «the moral foundations of democracy.»
Benedict on faith, reason, and culture; the president of the Catholic University of America, John Garvey, on the Catholic university; the poet Paul Mariani on the Catholic imagination; and Robert Imbelli on
the Catholic intellectual tradition are among the writings that can be found in C21 Resources, an occasional magazine published by the Church in the 21st Century Center at Boston College.
Robert Royal is President of the Washington - based Faith and Reason Institute and the author of numerous books, including The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Comprehensive World History and the forthcoming study, A Deeper Vision:
The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.
The Catholic intellectual tradition's rigorous examination of theology and philosophy undoubtedly appealed to his acquisitive mind.
But I do not see how it is consistent with
the Catholic intellectual tradition.
Struggling to give revelation its proper place, they also lost (not at first, and never altogether, but at length) fifteen hundred years of
Catholic intellectual tradition, a tradition that bothered itself with the iotas, and whether or not Mary should be referred to as the God - bearer (the Theotokos), and what precisely is the Pelagian error and what is not, and whether the two natures of Christ conflict with the unity of his person, and so on.
Examining
the Catholic Intellectual Tradition.
They speak instead of things like «
the Catholic intellectual tradition.»
Not exact matches
Loyola keeping a
Catholic identity helps promote real
intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the
traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).
These essays succeed admirably in both objectives, in the process showing us how rediscovering the riches of its own
tradition can enable
Catholic philosophy to engage the contemporary
intellectual world and address the critical issues of our day.
After Popes Gregory XVI, Pius IX, and Leo XIII corrected the Kantianism and Hegelianism of some early - nineteenth century
Catholic intellectuals» namely Georg Hermes and Anton Günther» a
tradition - oriented ethos developed in which
Catholic thinkers, by and large, resisted the temptations of modernity and instead harvested the wisdom rooted in ancient and medieval sources.
By the late 1790s the medieval
tradition of ultramontanism was being revived by Joseph de Maistre and other French
Catholic intellectuals.
Third, there was a dynamic and vital
Catholic literary and
intellectual tradition visibly at work in the culture.
For me, the prime attraction was attending a school that took its
Catholic identity seriously and would educate me in the faith's
intellectual tradition.
Michael Novak identifies certain affinities between
Catholic social teaching and the «original American»
tradition of political thought, and he argues that
Catholic intellectual resources should be put in the service of the classically American strand of liberalism.
Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary
Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for
Catholic writers and
intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and
tradition.»
A college whose leadership is committed to that
tradition, and to
Catholic leadership in the reform of an increasingly incoherent and authoritarian American
intellectual and educational culture, would celebrate Tony Esolen's contributions.
The dominant style of modern thought has been contestation of all
traditions, and it was largely the
Catholic intellectual community's belated reception of that mode of operation which led it to declare irrelevant its own richest flowering.
In fact, it has done nothing of the kind, for it has failed to develop an
intellectual tradition in America or to produce its own class of
intellectuals capable either of exercising authority among Catholics or of mediating between the
Catholic mind and the secular or Protestant mind.
The deepest threat to
Catholic intellectual life today stems not from a lack of engagement with the outside world, but from ignorance of our own
tradition and widespread loss of authentic biblical and doctrinal thinking.
Our schools are part of that rich
tradition of
Catholic learning that gave the world its universities and colleges, its village schools and mission schools, its great centres of learning and its small everyday ones, and its sense that
intellectual life is bound up with the life of the soul.
Embracing equally the wealth of its heritage and a calling to address the needs of the contemporary world, Notre Dame Law School brings together centuries of
Catholic intellectual and moral
tradition, the historic methods and principles of the common law, and a thorough engagement with the reality of today's legislative, regulatory, and global legal environment.
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