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The idea of a university / John Henry Newman ; Frank M. Turner, editor ; contributors, Martha McMackin Garland ...[et al.].

By: Newman, John Henry, 1801-1890.
Contributor(s): Turner, Frank M. (Frank Miller).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Rethinking the Western tradition.Publisher: New Haven London : Yale University Press, 1996Description: xxxiv,366p : ill. ; 21 cm + cased.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0300064047 (m); 9780300064049; 0300064055 (v) (pbk) :; 9780300064056.Subject(s): Education, Higher -- Philosophy | Universities and colleges -- Philosophy | History of ideas | Philosophy & theory of education | Higher & further education, tertiary education | Education | Higher educationDDC classification: 378.001 NEW Summary: The publication, nearly 150 years ago, of "The idea of a university", has had an extraordinary influence on the shaping of higher education. This is a full edition, with essays, notes teaching aids, of this classic work of Western European thought.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Since its publication almost 150 years ago, The Idea of a University has had an influence on the shaping and goals of higher education. The issues that John Henry Newman raised - the place of religion and moral values in the university setting, the competing claims of liberal and professional education, the character of the academic community, the cultural role of literature, the relation of religion and science - have provoked discussion from Newman's time to our own. This edition of The Idea of a University includes the full text of University Teaching and four selections from University Subjects, together with five essays by leading scholars that explore the background and the present day relevance of Newman's themes.

Bibliography: p363-366.

The publication, nearly 150 years ago, of "The idea of a university", has had an extraordinary influence on the shaping of higher education. This is a full edition, with essays, notes teaching aids, of this classic work of Western European thought.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (p. ix)
  • Preface (p. svii)
  • University Teaching
  • I. Introductory (p. 3)
  • II. Theology: A Branch of Knowledge (p. 19)
  • III. Bearing of Other Knowledge (p. 41)
  • IV. Bearing of Other Knowledge on Theology (p. 65)
  • V. Knowledge: Its Own End (p. 91)
  • VI. Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Learning (p. 113)
  • VII. Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Professional Skill (p. 137)
  • VIII. Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Religion (p. 163)
  • IX. Duties of the Church Towards Knowledge (p. 193)
  • University Subjects
  • I. Christianity and Letters. A Lecture read in the School of Philosophy and Letters, November, 1854 (p. 223)
  • II. Literature. A Lecture read in the School of Philosophy and Letters, November, 1858 (p. 241)
  • III. Catholic Literature in the English Tongue, 1854-8:-- (p. 265)
  • 1. In its relation to Religious Literature (p. 267)
  • 2. To Science (p. 269)
  • 3. To the Classical Literature (p. 276)
  • 4. To the Literature of the Day (p. 287)
  • IV. Elementary Studies, 1854-6 (p. 297)
  • 1. Grammar (p. 300)
  • 2. Composition (p. 312)
  • 3. Latin Writing (p. 325)
  • 4. General Religious Knowledge (p. 334)
  • V. A Form of Infidelity of the Day, 1854.-- (p. 343)
  • 1. Its Sentiments (p. 343)
  • 2. Its Policy (p. 353)
  • VI. University Preaching, 1855 (p. 365)
  • VII. Christianity and Physical Science. A Lecture read in the School of Medicine, November, 1855 (p. 387)
  • VIII. Christianity and Scientific Investigation. A Written Lecture for the School of Science, 1855 (p. 413)
  • IX. Discipline of Mind. An Address delivered to the Evening Classes, November, 1858 (p. 435)
  • X. Christianity and Medical Science. An Address delivered to the Students of Medicine, November, 1858 (p. 457)
  • Note on p. 432 (p. 471)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

English clergyman John Henry Newman was born on February 21, 1801. He was educated at Trinity College, University of Oxford. He was the leader of the Oxford movement and cardinal after his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church. In 1822, he received an Oriel College fellowship, which was then the highest distinction of Oxford scholarship, and was appointed a tutor at Oriel. Two years later, he became vicar of St. Mary's, the Anglican church of the University of Oxford, and exerted influence on the religious thought through his sermons.

When Newman resigned his tutorship in 1832, he made a tour of the Mediterranean region and wrote the hymn "Lead Kindly Light." He was also one of the chief contributors to "Tracts for the Times" (1833-1841), writing 29 papers including "Tract 90", which terminated the series. The final tract was met with opposition because of its claim that the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England are aimed primarily at the abuses of Roman Catholicism. Newman retired from Oxford in 1842 to the village of Littlemore. He spent three years in seclusion and resigned his post as vicar of St. Mary's on October 9, 1845. During this time, he wrote a retraction of his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church and after writing his "Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine," he became a Roman Catholic. The following year, he went to Rome and was ordained a priest and entered the Congregation of the Oratory.

The remainder of Newman's life was spent in the house of the Oratory that he established near Birmingham. He also served as rector of a Roman Catholic university that the bishops of Ireland were trying to establish in Dublin from 1854-1858. While there, he delivered a series of lectures that were later published as "The Idea of a University Defined" (1873), which says the function of a university is the training of the mind instead of the giving of practical information. In 1864, Newman published "Apologia pro Vita Sua (Apology for His Life)" in response to the charge that Roman Catholicism was indifferent to the truth. It is an account of his spiritual development and regarded as both a religious autobiography and English prose. Newman also wrote "An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent" (1870), and the novels "Loss and Gain" (1848), Callista" (1856) and "The Dream of Gerontius" (1865).

Newman was elected an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, in 1877 and was made cardinal by Pope Leo XIII in 1879. He died on August 11, 1890.

(Bowker Author Biography)