James Tunstead Burtchaell

All the Essential Half”Truths About Higher Education By George Dennis O’Brien University of Chicago Press. 243 pp. $19.95 Dennis O’Brien is well entitled to publish a presidential memoir. The great college presidents used to do it: Willam Jewett Tucker of Dartmouth, Charles Eliot of . . . . Continue Reading »

Theological Education in the Catholic Tradition: Contemporary Challenges Edited by Patrick W. Carey and Earl C. Muller Crossroad. 423 pp. $19.95 Being There: Culture and Formation in Two Theological Schools By Jackson Carroll, Barbara Wheeler, Daniel Aleshire, and Penny Long Marler Oxford . . . . Continue Reading »

The first part of this essay, published in last month’s issue, recounted how the process of estrangement between Vanderbilt University and the Southern Methodist Church was typical of the alienation of mainstream Protestant colleges and universities from their churches, occurring from about 1870 . . . . Continue Reading »

Every one shall consider the main End of his life and studies, to know God and Jesus Christ which is Eternal life. John xvii.3.Laws, Liberties, and Orders of Harvard College, circa 1646As for the Universities, I believe it may be said. Their Light is now become Darkness, Darkness that may be felt. . . . . . Continue Reading »

Making Saints: How the Church Determines Who Becomes a Saint, Who Doesn’t and Why by Kenneth L. Woodward Simon and Schuster, 461 pages, $24.95 “Newman did not regard himself as a theologian, and it would distort his accomplishments to call him one. He was that rarer and more . . . . Continue Reading »