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The Catholic University and the Faith Aquinas Lecture ; 1978
author
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Wade, Francis C.
publisher
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Marquette University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0874621437
print isbn13
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9780874621433
ebook isbn13
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9780585141312
language
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English
subject
Catholic universities and colleges, Catholic Church--Education.
publication date
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1978
lcc
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LC487.W34 1978eb
ddc
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377.8
subject
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Catholic universities and colleges, Catholic Church--Education.
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The Aquinas Lecture, 1978
The Catholic University and the Faith
Under the Auspices of the Wisconsin-Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau
By Francis C. Wade, S.J.
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS MILWAUKEE 1978
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Copyright 1978 Marquette University
ISBN 0-87462-143-7
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
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In lumine tuo videbimus lumen (Ps. 35:10).
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Prefatory
The Wisconsin Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the National Honor Society for Philosophy at Marquette University, each year invites a scholar to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas. This year the lecture was delivered on Sunday, March 5, 1978.
The 1978 Aquinas Lecture The Catholic University and the Faith was delivered in Todd Wehr Chemistry by the Reverend Francis C. Wade, S.J., Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University.
Fr. Wade was born on November 11, 1907 at Whitesboro, Texas. He entered the Society of Jesus on September 1, 1925 at Florissant, Missouri. He earned an A.B. in 1930 at Xavier University, Cincinnati, and an M.A. in 1932 and an S.T.L. in 1939 at Saint Louis University. After five years of teaching philosophy at Rockhurst College in Kansas City, Fr. Wade came to Marquette University in 1945 and has taught philosophy at Marquette for thirty-three years. In 1954 he became associate pro-
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fessor and in 1965 professor. His excellence as a teacher has been consistently acknowledged by his students and was formally recognized by the University's Award for Teaching Excellence in 1970.
Though Fr. Wade's publications in philosophy range over the areas of logic, metaphysics, ethics and mediaeval philosophy, his philosophical concern with the role of teaching in a Catholic university has been a recurrent theme in his articles and reviews. In 1963 his book, Teaching and Morality, appeared. He has translated John of St. Thomas, Outlines of Formal Logic and is co-translator of Cajetan's Commentary on Being and Essence of St. Thomas Aquinas. Among his more recent writings are: "On Violence," The Journal of Philosphy, 1971; "In Defense of Socrates," The Review of Metaphysics, 1971; "'To Force' and 'To Do Violence To'," The Journal of Value Inquiry, 1975; and ''Potentiality in the Abortion Discussion," The Review of Metaphysics, 1975.
To these publications Phi Sigma Tau is pleased to add: The Catholic University and the Faith.
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The Catholic University and the Faith
A university can be described today as a community of scholars, actual and potential, dedicated to preserving and extending knowledge. The two actions generally considered as most proper to the university are teaching and research. How these two activities are interrelated will depend on the history and the ideals of each university. Using this pattern, we can say that a Catholic university is a community of scholars, actual and potential, who wish to carry on teaching and research within the context of their Catholic faith. How the activities of teaching and research are interrelated will again depend on the history and ideals of each Catholic university.
My focusing on teaching and research is not intended to deny that there are other important activities in a university. Especially does this need to be said about a contemporary Catholic university, which
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takes seriously its duty to foster community. Yet it is still true today as in the past that the bone structure of any university is constituted by its teaching and research, no matter how these bones may be variously fleshed out and diligently clothed in the contemporary academic or even religious fashions. My interest is to look to the bone structure of the Catholic University, as that which will sustain and unify whatever flesh or clothing seems necessary at any one time. I may as well say here in the beginning that much, though not all, of what I say about the Catholic university can also be said about any Christian university that takes the Christian faith as a serious part of the intellectual life.
The role of the Catholic university can be stated by looking to the needs that it seeks to fulfill. First, it meets a need of the Catholic community. The Church has the mission of salvation to all classes of people. In order to present its truth to the highly educated, a group that is becoming increasingly large in America today, the Church must express its teachings and
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values in a fully developed and intellectually precise form. Hence the need for an institution dedicated to such pursuit. At the same time, and to just as great an extent, the Church needs to grow in its own understanding of the revelation it has received. Every advance in human knowledge can be of aid in understanding this revelation. Hence the need of the Church for a university as a human endeavor to keep its understanding of revelation strong and living.1 Notice, too, that this need is not for a religious institution; the need is for an academic institution.2
Its specific character of being academic points to the second need that the Catholic university seeks to fulfill. As an institution in a pluralist society it serves to present, explicate and explore the insights that are generally Christian, as well as those that are specifically Catholic. Pluralism, as public policy, welcomes many explanatory and value systems and encourages the advocates of each to add to the common discussion and common decisions. Indeed, the vigor of a pluralist society demands
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