Consensus

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Faith, Freedom, and the Academy

Introduction

In his classic lectures On the Idea of a University John Henry Newman emphasized the study of theology among the disciplines of the university. Newman’s recognition of the place of theology in the university derived from his belief that all branches of knowledge are essentially inter-connected: he wrote, “That only is true enlargement of mind which is the power of viewing many things at once as one whole, of referring them severally to their true place in the universal system, of understanding their respective values, and determining their mutual dependence.”