![]() ![]() “ A close reading of Newman, in this marvelous new edition, may help spark the reform that American high education desperately needs. ![]() ![]() Blum as well as a Newman reading list and questions on the text to invite discussion and reflection. Rome forbade the Irish Church to pursue such a university and insisted on using Louvain in Belgium as the model for establishing a Catholic university. This new edition contains a Introduction by Don J. The reader of The Idea of a University will delight in the melody of Newman’s prose, the sharpness of his insights, and the force of his arguments, but will also rejoice to find something incomparably more valuable, a vast vista of an orderly life of learning with a glimpse of the mind’s last end-God. John Henry Newman, writing in England in the mid-nineteenth century, proposed a vision of Catholic higher education that takes account of major difficulties. In The Idea of a University, Blessed John Henry Newman champions a “discipline of mind” that enables its possessor to distinguish essence from accident, means from end, and good from evil. ![]() By John Henry Newman | Introduction by Don J. John Henry Newman The Idea of a University Paperback Septemby John Henry Newman (Author) 81 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 0.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 33.95 - 49.37 2 Used from 48.38 6 New from 33.95 Paperback 11.15 1 New from 11. ![]()
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