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The Necessity of Community

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...

Church and Academy

James Tunstead Burtchaell

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...

The Decline and Fall of the Christian College (II)

James Tunstead Burtchaell

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...

The Decline and Fall of the Christian College

James Tunstead Burtchaell

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...

Saints as Givers, Saints as Guides

James Tunstead Burtchaell

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...