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Revisiting the Threefold Office of Christ in the Church
One of the most significant contributions of the Second Vatican Council lay in its appropriation of the tria munera—that is the threefold office of Christ as priest, prophet, and king—as an architectonic structure for reflection on the church.
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Considering Online Education through Newman’s PrinciplesFebruary 24, 2021Newman'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. […]
Newman’s University Journal and Its SignificanceFebruary 17, 2021The 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. […]
Letters from a Scientist: Newman’s Correspondence with St. George Jackson MivartFebruary 11, 2021While the unravelling of Mivart’s reputation among the Catholic leadership primarily occurred after Newman’s death in 1890, a correspondence between Newman and Mivart is housed in the NINS Digital Collections. […]
Letter from a Poet: Gerard Manley Hopkins to Ignatius RyderJanuary 27, 2021Just seven months before his death, the now famous poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, SJ, penned the following letter to Henry “Ignatius” Ryder. […]
Newman in America: Correspondence with J. B. Purcell, Archbishop of CincinnatiJanuary 19, 2021In 1875 John Baptist Purcell wrote to Newman that some in the United States were opposed to a pamphlet he published in a Catholic Liverpool paper. […]