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Idea of a University Discourse 6 Part 3: True Knowledge
To learn, to think, to reason, is to be human, to glorify our Creator with our minds.
Robert Kirkendall
January 28, 2022
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Idea of a University Discourse 6 Part 2: Alive to God’s Reality
A truly mature mind is open to, and transformed by, the fullness of God’s reality.
Robert Kirkendall
November 27, 2021
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Idea of a University Discourse 6 Part 1: “Intellectual Perfection”
Newman reminds us that the foundation of intellectual formation is moral formation.
Robert Kirkendall
October 14, 2021
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Idea of a University Discourse 5: A Philosophic Habit of Mind
A sound education gives students a “habit of mind” to prepare them not just for the real world of society, but more fundamentally for the real world God has created.
Robert Kirkendall
August 27, 2021
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Catholic or Common Core? Part 2: Educating Real Persons
Newman wants a “discipline of mind” in education, not some new system that looks good on paper.
Robert Kirkendall
July 1, 2021
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Catholic or Common Core? Part 1: Newman’s “Real World”
St. John Henry Newman’s philosophy of education reminds that the true education is the formation of human nature in the image and likeness of God.
Robert Kirkendall
June 18, 2021
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Robert Kirkendall
May 14, 2021
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Embarking on “Ventures of Faith”
If we wish to earn the Crown, we must embrace the duty of bearing the Cross.
Robert Kirkendall
April 14, 2021
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“Spokesmen and Prophets of the Human Family:” St. John Henry Newman’s Defense of the Classics
The study of Literature is not a mere study of words, but a study of the great thoughts of great persons crafted with eloquence.
Robert Kirkendall
March 19, 2021
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Regenerating Baptism
“Either Baptism is an instrument of the Holy Ghost, or it has no place in Christianity.”
Robert Kirkendall
January 8, 2021