Because
universities are tradition - bound, and so is our thinking.
Not exact matches
University of Notre Dame students become part of a storied history, where carrying on school
traditions is a built - in part of the experience: Pep rallies, homemade - boat races, and masses at chapel
are among the activities available during students» four years on campus.
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).
It
's a mistake to say that our modern Christmas
traditions come directly from pre-Christian paganism, said Ronald Hutton, a historian at Bristol
University in the United Kingdom.
«It
is through the humanities principally,» says Coughlin, president of Gonzaga
University from 1974 to 1996, «that the culture, values, and moral principles of the Judeo - Christian
tradition are kept alive in Western society.
The FIRST PRINCIPLES SEMINAR: MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE NATURAL LAW
TRADITION is an intensive two - week program for advanced undergraduate and graduate students under the direction of Thomas D'Andrea (
University of Cambridge) and Christopher Tollefsen (
University of South Carolina), with guest lecturers Hadley Arkes (Amherst College), Robert George (Princeton
University) and Daniel Robinson (Oxford
University).
Indeed, over the years, Georgetown has
been perhaps the clearest example of what many such schools practice: the whipsaw of «Catholic
tradition,» in which the strongest declarations of Catholic identity come from the fund - raisers, the alumni association, and the public - relations office ¯ all the people trying to sell the
university in a tight economic situation that requires a good bit of niche marketing.
The GOD, POLITICS AND THE JEWISH
TRADITION SEMINAR
is two - week program for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in the relevance of Judaism's political and theological dimensions to public life, led by Leora Batnitzky (Princeton
University) and David Novak (
University of Toronto).
In his stunning new book Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal
Tradition (Harvard
University Press, 1983), Harold J. Berman argues that the roots of modern universalistic principles of law, morality, science and scholarship derive from essentially theological insights which
are now in peril of
being lost by neglect.
Dana
is ordained in the Southern Baptist
tradition and holds a Master of Divinity degree from Duke
University Divinity School.
The following
traditions are taken from The History of al - Tabari, Volume 1 — General Introduction and from the Creation to the Flood (translated by Franz Rosenthal, State
University of New York Press (SUNY), Albany 1989), pp. 187 - 193.
Cardinal Newman said there
were three authorities in the Church: the authority of
tradition, the authority of reason and the authority of experience, which he placed respectively in the hierarchy, the
university and the body of the faithful.
In central Europe it sometimes seems that the deepest reason for preserving and developing the theological
tradition in the
university has
been that a profession exists whose chief function
is the proclamation of the Biblical message.
dissertation, Boston
University, 1948, p. 10) Counseling
is one aspect of a concern for healing which has
been integral to the Hebrew - Christian
tradition through the centuries.
With today
's Catholic
universities drifting away from any recognizable connection to the Catholic
tradition, dioceses closing parochial schools, and the Church
's ability to influence politics at a historic low, it
's absurd to speak of a «resurgent» integralism.
Born in 1837, Abraham Kuyper
was a major intellectual figure in the Dutch Calvinist
tradition for many years before his death in 1929: a theologian, pastor, newspaper editor, and statesman who founded the Free
University of Amsterdam and served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1901 - 1905.
His book Quality and Soul: How Six Premier Colleges and
Universities Keep Faith with Their Religious
Traditions was published by Eerdmans.
Rather than deploying inherited wisdom as a means of associating itself with traditional elites, the
university has
been disparaging
tradition, in order to become one with popular taste.
Perhaps the most «applied» approach at the conference
was that of a professor at a southeastern
university who simultaneously participates in Benedictine life and Zen meditation, attempting to understand these
traditions concretely rather than as an observer.
His resignation from the Harvard philosophy department (and total retirement from
university life) where he had graduated and taught from 1899
was the source of some distress to American philosophers who had regarded him as one of the leading figures in a distinctively American
tradition,
-- Richard Muller of the
University of California says the pronunciation «has
been a
tradition at some of our weapons labs since World War II.»
In the spring of 1952 Buber
was awarded the Goethe Prize by the
University of Hamburg for his «activity in the spirit of a genuine humanity» and for «an exemplary cultural activity which serves the mutual understanding of men and the preservation and continuation of a high spiritual
tradition.»
Its
University with its ancient
traditions is essential to the understanding of his subsequent spiritual and intellectual evolution.
I need hardly say that, from the point of view of any of the great religious
traditions, the single - minded pursuit of wealth controlling the
University of Phoenix
is profoundly wrong - headed.
A delightful
tradition at my
university is that faculty members may accompany their children on stage as their children receive their degree.
Georgetown
University is an institution «in the Jesuit
tradition».
Ken Olson, «Eusebius of Caesarea
Tradition and Innovations», Center for Hellenic Studies, distributed by Harvard
University Press (2013), wrote «Both the language and the content have close parallels in the work of Eusebius of Caesarea, who
is the first author to show any knowledge of the text.
The reader
is recommended to The Emergence of the Catholic
Tradition by Jaroslav Pelikan (
University of Chicago Press, 1971) or A History of Christian Doctrine, Hubert Cunliffe - Jones, ed., (Fortress Press, 1980).
Edward Shils has
been critical of Weber's insufficient attention to the role of
tradition in both hurch and sect types, Tradition (Chicago: University of Chica
tradition in both hurch and sect types,
Tradition (Chicago: University of Chica
Tradition (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
Randall Balmer of Columbia
University suggested that the most effective oratorical style in contemporary politics
is strongly influenced by the evangelical Protestant
tradition.
In 1951 a
University of Kiel professor named Theodor Wilhelm published the prayer in a book of his own under the pseudonym Friedrich Oetinger, which launched a German
tradition of attributing it to the 18th - century Swabian Pietist F. C. Oetinger; Catholic - artifact versions of the prayer attributed it to St. Francis of Assisi; Hallmark cashed in on the prayer; and it
was immortalized on thousands of plaques featuring Albrecht Dürer's praying hands.
I
am an ordained minister (in the
tradition that tried to deny me), the wife of an ordained minister turned coin dealer and stay at home dad, the mother of two (a feisty little girl and a strong - willed boy), and the chaplain at a women's liberal arts
university.
Those of us who dismiss the conservative
tradition as
being represented by Billy Graham or by the stance of Christianity Today ten or 5 years ago might, for example, take a look at Richard Mouw's Political Evangelism, which
is typical of a new breed of theological writing from a very conservative, though hardly fundamentalist, biblical perspective, or God in Public, by William Coats, Episcopal chaplain at the
University of Wisconsin.
Sayyed Misbah Deen
is Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Keele and a Muslim with a family
tradition of theology.
«Mack
was one of the hopes for a revival of the
tradition,» said Ralph Hood, a
University of Tennessee professor who
's written two books on snake handlers and
is probably the foremost academic expert on their culture.
This
is reported in Bernard S. Cohn, «Representing Authority in Victorian India,» in Eric Hobsbawn and Terence Ranger, eds., The Invention of
Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1983), p. 206.
Unlike theological schools in the United States, however, these
university faculties
are closely tied to the Protestant and Catholic churches: The ipso facto establishment of the two major Christian
traditions via West Germany's church tax means that few people here question the close relationship of the faculties to the churches.
But if Notre Dame
is interested in carrying on the
tradition of the
University of Paris, it certainly will not achieve that objective by emulating Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
In answer to the
tradition epitomized by Epictetus» statement «If I
am not Socrates yet I ought to live as one seeking to
be Socrates» (The Meaning of Stoicism, by Ludwig Edelstein [Harvard
University Press, 1966], p. 12), Cullmann offers the alternative example of Christ — a Christ «greatly distressed and troubled» (Mark 14:33) at the prospect of death.
But if a
university is liberated from external ecclesiastical authority, an internal system of discipline must
be instituted in order to ensure that its teaching remains consistent with the
tradition to which it belongs.
One of the roles of a Christian
university is that of exploring ways to further the development of the Christian
tradition.
Theodore Hesburgh said, «Here
is an apostolate that no secular
university today can undertake» for they
are largely cut off from the
tradition of adequate knowledge which comes only through faith in the mind and faith in God, the highest wisdom of Christian philosophy and Catholic theology.»
Bradley G. Green
is associate professor of Christian thought and
tradition at Union
University.
Among
university divinity schools today, Duke
is notable for its efforts to reappropriate the fullness of the Christian
tradition, refusing to
be dominated by the fashions du jour.
It
was once primarily a matter of liberal arts, a
tradition developed in the Medieval period when
universities were closely tied to the church and theology
was the queen of the sciences.
And this
was clearly part of the attraction to less
tradition - bound
universities.
America's Theologian: A Recommendation of Jonathan Edwardsby robert jenson oxford
university press, 224 pages, $ 26 At first glance it
is surprising that an avowedly Lutheran theologian, steeped, by his own admission, in the European theological
tradition, should find so much to recommend in....
The greatest theologians in this
tradition, up to and including Reinhold Niebuhr,
were parish pastors without Ph.D.
s; their educators once envisioned an alliance between
university and church for the sake of lay education in biblical studies.
They realize, nevertheless, that they can not do their work apart from knowledge of the
tradition that
is taught and transmitted in the
university.
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 Bosto
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 Bosto
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.