"COSMOPOLIS OR THE NEW JERUSALEM: MODERN SOCIAL IMAGINARIES AND THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY," TIMOTHY T. MULDOON
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Charles Taylor's exploration of modern social imaginaries sheds light on the differing ways that university faculty and leaders today reflect and help shape the world. This article examines Taylor's work as a point of departure for suggesting two contrasting models of social imaginary abroad in university education—namely, cosmopolis and new Jerusalem. It explores what a robust Catholic imagination represented by the latter model might mean for the contemporary Catholic university, especially as regards the desire for integration of knowledge that is truly reflective of the term “university.” It pays particular attention to Bernard Lonergan's notion of cosmopolis as a way of imagining anew the ways that Catholic universities form students and contribute to research and scholarship, and emphasizes the task of faculty formation as central to Catholic mission in the academy. - Author's Abstract
Muldoon, Timothy T. "Cosmopolis or the New Jerusalem: Modern Social Imaginaries and the Catholic University" in Horizons 43 (2016) Read the Article: UofT Libraries WorldCat |
"WHERE IS KNOWING GOING? THE HORIZONS OF THE KNOWING SUBJECT, JOHN HAUGHEY
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Catholic institutions of higher learning are at a crossroads: How can they remain true to their roots while recognizing that many of their administrations, faculties, and student bodies have little connection with the tradition? How can these institutions remain competitive while maintaining a relationship to the Church?
During the past several years Catholic theologian John C. Haughey, SJ, has conducted groundbreaking research on these questions. He has done this in tandem with a team of Catholic scholars from around the United States. Haughey has also conducted numerous workshops with faculty at a dozen Catholic colleges and universities to learn firsthand about their research and teaching aspirations. Those relationships and conversations provide the foundation for this book's many insights. In Where Is Knowing Going? Haughey explores what constitutes the Catholic identity of Catholic colleges and universities. Going beyond a doctrinal understanding of Catholic identity to one that engages and is engaged by the intellectual tradition of Catholicism, Haughey does not find that the issue of Catholic identity is adequately dealt with by marketing the distinctive identities of institutions in terms of their founding religious orders or saints. He provides a sure-handed process whereby the pursuits of individual faculty can be better aligned with the formal mission of the institution. - GoodReads Read the Book: UofT Library WorldCat Reviews: Teaching, Theology and Religion, Rosemary P. Carbine Horizons, David Gentry-Akin |
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"Catholic Higher Education and the Enlightenment: On Borderlines and Roots," William M. Shea
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Recurrent debates about the church and higher education in the United States involve differing understandings of the nature and purpose of the church as well as differing understandings of the university. Catholic colleges and universities remain important but underutilized resources for the American church as it pursues its mission. Institutional, communitarian and servant models of the church must be examined more rigorously before they are used to prescribe changes in higher education. None is without problems. In a pluralistic and free society, a public church,” self-consciously mediating the tensions between Christian integrity, Catholic unity, and civic responsibility, provides an altogether appropriate stance for Catholic colleges and universities as well. It points not to a neat resolution of outstanding difficulties but to ongoing dialogue among the publics to which both church and higher education must address themselves. - Author's Abstract
William M. Shea, "Catholic Higher Education and the Enlightenment: On Borderlines and Roots," Horizons 20.1 (1993) Read the Article: UofT Libraries World Cat |
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"Hope and the Catholic University" R.J. Connelly
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"Faith and love receive most of the attention in discussions about what makes the Catholic university unique. A theme of hope in a recent pastoral letter by Joseph Cardinal Bernardin on the Catholic health care ministry, if applied to education, may provide another perspective on what makes, or could make, the Catholic university distinctive. This article first summarizes Bernardinas thinking about hope in the context of Catholic health care. Second, reference is made to what seems unique about hope in the Catholic tradition, and what hope can mean for Catholics today. The next section applies this understanding of hope to what we mean by a Catholic university, with the focus on undergraduate education. The last section begins to explore some practical implications of affirming hope as part of what makes a Catholic university distinctive." - Author's Abstract
Connelly, R.J. "Hope and the Catholic University." In Horizons 24.1 (1997). Read the Article: UofT Library WorldCat |
"American Catholic universities and the passion for the impossible" Theresa Sanders
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"Recent debate regarding the implementation of Ex Corde Ecclesiae has led many Catholic colleges and universities to reexamine their identity in relation to the church. Often departments of theology and religious studies are charged with maintaining the "Catholic" character of a campus, with negative effects. Much of the reaction to Ex Corde has been framed in terms of free speech, American systems of tenure, and religious diversity. This paper, however, suggests that holiness, understood as an ever-deepening awareness of Mystery (Rahner) or as "a passion for the impossible" (Caputo) might be a more fruitful context for dialogue between Catholic institutions of higher education and the Vatican. " - Author's Abstract
Saunders, Theresa. "American Catholic Universities and the Passion for the Impossible." In Horizons 27.2 (2000) Read the Article: UofT Library WorldCat |
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