Saint John Henry Newman and the Mission of a Catholic University Education

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...

Newman’s Idea of a University and the Quest for Knowledge

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...

Newman on Genius Loci and Liberal Education:  Organizational Spirituality for Civilization

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...

Bioethics, Education, and the Idea of a University

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...

Cor Ad Cor Loquitur:  Cardinal Newman and The Higher Truth of the Heart

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...

Universities Today Compared to John Henry Newman’s University Ideas

by Catholic Studies | Sep 23, 2022 | Higher Education, Summer 2022 Volume I

Raffi Manjikian Education today can be acquired in many different ways. People can attain credentials, certificates, and degrees from public two-year institutions, public and private four-year institutions, non-profit institutions, for-profit institutions, trade...

Newman and Lonergan on The Idea of a University

by Catholic Studies | Sep 23, 2022 | Summer 2022 Volume I

Richard M. Liddy No work in the English language has had more influence on the public ideals of higher education.  No other book on the character and purposes of universities has received so frequent citation and praise by other academic commentators…Like the...

John Henry Newman and Baccalaureate Nursing Education

by Catholic Studies | Sep 23, 2022 | Nursing, Summer 2022 Volume I

by Josephine DeVito Nursing education was initially based in a school of nursing associated with a hospital.  Students were educated during the day with classes on nursing skills and immediately placed in hospital units to work long hours on various day or night...

A Catholic University: More than an Idea

by Catholic Studies | Sep 23, 2022 | Higher Education, Summer 2022 Volume I

by Matthew Higgins  There appears to be an identity crisis in higher Education the United States, and within it,  Catholic higher education. As institutions evaluate their place in the ever-transitioning world of higher learning, they encounter both crisis and...

Integrated Learning and Newman’s “Idea of a University”

by Catholic Studies | Sep 23, 2022 | Summer 2022 Volume I

by Anthony L. Haynor A major takeaway for me from the 2021 Faculty Summer Seminar with Jeremy Wilkins, “From Facts to Truth to Wisdom with Thomas Aquinas,” involved the pivotal position of the senses and reason in the understanding of Being in its varied forms.  In...