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In this chapter, I pose several questions for the Catholic university of the future. Can a coherent Christian vision serve as an organizing tool for the undergraduate curriculum while avoiding the imperialistic tendencies of the encyclopaedists of Berlin1 and the neo-scholastics of the early twentieth century, or must we accept the current relativism and intellectual equivalence of all viewpoints, simply allowing them to work themselves out through disputation? Must we accept secular approaches to academic inquiry, and later attempt to graft or append religious perspectives onto the various disciplines in some nonorganic way? Or can such differences and disputations take place within a broader Catholic frame of reference that allows the contrary, dissenting, and pluralistic viewpoints of the age a space while simultaneously relating them to a broader Catholic context?
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See also Thomas Aquinas, The Disputed Questions on Truth, vol. 3, Library of Living Catholic Thought, trans. Robert W. Schmidt, S. J. (Chicago, IL: Henry Regnery, 1954), q. 22, a. 2.
De Lubac, Discovery of God, 38, 88. Cf. Bonaventure’s Itinerarium Mentis in Deum, trans. Philotheus Boehner, O. F. M. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1990). According to Bonaventure, the vestiges of God are found everywhere in the universe. Through contemplation of these vestiges we are led to God.
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John Haughey also draws on Ong’s metaphor of yeast. See John C. Haughey, S. J., Where is Knowing Going?: The Horizons of the Knowing Subject (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2009), 93–96.
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Garcia, K. (2012). “The Direction toward Which Wonder Progresses”. In: Academic Freedom and the Telos of the Catholic University. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137031921_7
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