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 »

If the Vanderbilt transition from Methodist to neuter exhibits a typical pattern of academic secularization, what we will find at the root of these events is a sponsoring church that is nonchalant about its burden: one that wishes to be the patron of a college or university without being its . . . . 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 1646 As for the Universities, I believe it may be said. Their Light is now become Darkness, Darkness that may be . . . . 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 comprehensive figure, . . . . Continue Reading »