The resulting book, 'The Idea of a University', became a classic of educational philosophy which is still referenced in debates about the nature and purpose of education today. Newman later added some other articles on educational topics, such as the relation between science and religion.

Suppose John Henry Newman were somehow able to return to survey the. He also argued for academic education in its own right, against the 'utilitarians' who said that all education should just be practical and immediately 'useful'. Theology and the University: Newmans Idea and Current Realities. He gave a series of public lectures, arguing the case for a Catholic university (such as existed elsewhere in Europe) and also that a university should include theology among its subjects. Newman, as the leading intellectual Catholic convert, was appointed its founding Rector. The pope of that time, Pius IX, urged the Irish bishops instead to found a Catholic university.

The issue was particularly acute in Ireland with its majority Catholic population, so the British government decided to found some non-denominational colleges there which would admit all but which also were not allowed to have Catholic theology faculties in them. At that time Catholics were banned from attending the ancient British universities. John Henry Newman (1801-90) was an Anglican clergyman and Oxford academic whose study of early Christianity led him to convert to the Catholic Church in 1845. This edition of The Idea of a University includes the full text of 'University Teaching' and four selections from 'University Subjects,' together with five essays by leading scholars that. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Idea of a University

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