Higher Learning and Catholic Traditions - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0268030537 ISBN 13 : 9780268030537

Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2001

Synopsis

This is the inaugural volume in the Erasmus Institute Books series. Founded in 1997, the institute strives to build bridges between Catholic thought and secular scholarship by encouraging the application of Catholic intellectual traditions to research in the humanities and social sciences, including the arts and professional fields such as law. The institute also supports parallel work grounded in the intellectual traditions of other Christian faiths, of Judaism, and of Islam. The essays in this volume began as papers delivered at a conference on Higher Learning and Catholic Traditions held at the University of Notre Dame in October 1999. In Higher Learning and Catholic Traditions a number of distinguished academics from various disciplines and different religious convictions present their views on the complex relations between some important aspects of Catholic thought and modern academic culture and knowledge. The contributors discuss the development of specialized disciplines, the fragmentation of academic knowledge, and the apparent isolation of Christian intellectual traditions from the discourse of the modern university. More tellingly, some of the contributors also subvert t

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0268030537
• ISBN 13: 9780268030537
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Éditeur: Sullivan Robert E.
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