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Using Josef Pieper's Leisure as a point of departure, the contributors to this volume share a mutual concern for the diminishing role of the liberal arts in Catholic higher education. The overwhelming impression they share is that U.S. Catholic universities, with notable exceptions, have forgotten the very goal of university education, and especially Catholic university education: to aid in forming young men and women to pursue the truth and helping them to become freer persons.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Preface. One Thing Needful: Catholic Higher Education 50 Years After Land O' Lakes
Anthony P. Coleman, Ph.D.
Preliminary Assessments and Considerations
1. On Leisure and Knowledge
Rev. James V. Schall, S.J. (?)
2. Leisure, Labor, and Culture
Robert Royal, Ph.D.
3. Martha and Mary: Putting First Things First in a College Education
Michael A. Scaperlanda, Esq.
4. The Urgency of Restoring the Catholic (and catholic) Nature of Higher Education
Teresa Stanton Collett, J.D.
On Teachers and Teaching
5. Three Precepts on Teaching
Wilfred M. McClay, Ph.D.
6. W(h)ither the Liberally Educated Teacher?: An Historical Reflection
Brett Bertucio
7. Teaching to the Transcendent
Daniel Guernsey, Ed.D.
Guiding Lights: Studies of Forms and Figures
8. Catholic Education and Formation in the Arts and Sciences: Listening to Josef Pieper and Hugh of Saint Victor
Patrick Powers, Ph.D.
9. The Liberal Arts amidst Contemporary Social Structures: The Case of Frodo Baggins
John Macias, Ph.D.
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About the author
Anthony P. Coleman is assistant professor of theology at Anna Maria College and author of Lactantius the Theologian: Lactantius and the Doctrine of Providence.Anthony P. Coleman is assistant professor of theology at Anna Maria College and author of Lactantius the Theologian: Lactantius and the Doctrine of Providence.
Summary
From the diverse perspectives of their respective authors, the essays contained in Leisure and Labor all provide reminders of what a liberal education is, does, and means for the Catholic university.
