Category: Education
The “Happy Months” of Newman at the College of Propaganda in Rome (1846–1847)
Tuninetti argues that at the College in Rome he eventually found, and was profoundly attracted by, what he had long been looking for: the opportunity to participate in the daily life of an established Catholic community—at a time when he was considering his own vocation within the Church of Rome.
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Newman’s Campaign in Ireland: A Review of Paul Shrimpton’s New Edition
The newest volume in the Birmingham Oratory’s Millennial Edition of Newman’s works published My Campaign Part I for the first time.
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Considering Online Education through Newman’s Principles
Newman’s The Idea of a University outlines his theory and ideal of university education and can offer us some important principles to guide our thinking about the possibilities of online education.
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Newman’s University Journal and Its Significance
The journal is perhaps one of Newman’s most practical texts on education due to the intimate voice that Newman uses to describe the difficulties and particularities of founding a university.
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Newman High: More Lessons for Secondary Teachers
John Thompson’s post entitled “Newman High: Some Notes on Newman for Secondary Educators,” raises some important and timely questions for those teaching at the pre-college levels. We write to share one resource and three additional lessons from Newman that may further help secondary educators strengthen their professional practice.
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Newman High: Some Notes on Newman for Secondary Educators
This month, many teachers like myself will be returning to our classrooms. It will be, like many things right now, challenging and uncertain. While some about our schools will be unfamiliar and new, much will remain the same.
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Newman Reading group at Franciscan University of Steubenville: An Interview with Dr. Theodore Harwood
In celebration of St. John Henry Newman’s canonization in October of 2019, Franciscan University of Steubenville had various events in honor of Newman during the 2019–2020 academic year. One of those events was a faculty group, led by classics professor Dr. Theodore Harwood
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Education as Total Reality: Luigi Giussani and Newman on Education
The place where the educational process unfolds must be a place where all of reality is presented (Giussani, The Risk of Education, 133).
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Comparing Newman and Giussani – The Presence of the Educator
While they lived in different centuries, different nations, and in vastly different geo-political situations, Newman and Giussani shared a common interest in resolving the challenges of living the Christian life presented by a world that was growing increasingly secular and irreligious.
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Newman and Locke on the Epistemic Scope of CertitudeApril 27, 2022In the scholarly literature, John Locke (1632–1704) features as a formative influence on Newman’s philosophical thought. What usually gets highlighted, for example in the Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, are Newman’s criticism of Locke’s notion of degreed assent and his call for a broader and more nuanced account of the rationality of religious belief. However, some have argued that the Grammar largely focuses on the psychological conditions of religious belief. […]
Unlikely Soul Mates: Robert Browning and St. John Henry NewmanApril 5, 2022Despite their differences, and although Newman and Browning never met, they shared similar life experiences, and literary techniques, and both were concerned with the justification of Christianity, as well as the struggle between faith and doubt. Another parallel between these writers concerns their poetic interests. […]
NINS’s Expanding CollectionsFebruary 23, 2022The National Institute for Newman Studies (NINS) is pleased to announce the ongoing expansion of our digital collections through formal agreements with several institutions in England. […]
The Idea Idearum in Newman and BouyerDecember 16, 2021An important theological theme in the Christian tradition is that of the divine ideas or logoi in the mind or Word of God by which God knows and loves in himself eternally all the ways that creatures can or do participate in a living likeness of him. […]
Pusey House, Oxford Joins NINS Digital CollectionsDecember 8, 2021For readers who are interested in using the Pusey House collections for their research, here is an overview of what we have. Only original materials have been digitized, so the digital collection is slightly smaller than the physical one, but every authentic Newman item we have should now be accessible online. […]