by Catholic Studies | Sep 23, 2022 | Summer 2022 Volume I
Gloria J. Thurmond The seminar on Saint John Henry Newman provided an opportunity for profound reflection on the interior life of spirit in Newman and its impact on his academic life as an Anglican theologian and university teacher, and on his conversion to...
by Catholic Studies | Sep 23, 2022 | Summer 2022 Volume I
Lisa Rose-Wiles It seems difficult to imagine how Newman’s idea of a university may be realized today. A learning community that integrates knowledge (wisdom) with student formation (holiness),1 insists that “all branches of knowledge are connected together” and that...
by Catholic Studies | Sep 23, 2022 | Summer 2022 Volume I
Jon Radwan Learning about John Henry Newman’s Idea of a University with Kenneth Parker was a pleasure and a revelation.[1] I was struck by how far my own education differed from his ideal. As someone who earned multiple degrees from large state research universities...
by Catholic Studies | Sep 23, 2022 | Summer 2022 Volume I
Bryan Pilkington In his lectures on the work of Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman at Seton Hall University during the summer of 2022, Professor Kenneth Parker required participants to read or reread sections of Newman’s The Idea of a University. Participants were then...
by Catholic Studies | Sep 23, 2022 | Summer 2022 Volume I
Melinda D. Papaccio As I started to write this reflection, I took a call to our ITHIRST Initiative addiction ministry’s helpline.[1] A seventy-year-old man from Rhode Island said he wanted help—he was so lonely, he said. While I later found out he wanted help for...