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Idea of a University Discourse IV Part 3: What happens without theology?
For Newman, the great crisis of our modern age is quite simply forgetting what theology is, and what it isn’t.
For Newman, the great crisis of our modern age is quite simply forgetting what theology is, and what it isn’t.
“We cannot do without a view, and we put up with an illusion, when we cannot get a truth.”
Religious truth is not only a portion, but a condition of general knowledge.
Theology is the foundation and the glue without which all other disciplines of knowledge fall into obscurity, confusion, and unreality.
Theology, the science of discerning God’s truth, is, in the classical phrase, the “Queen of the sciences.”
Disc. 9. Duties of the Church towards Knowledge Newman begins that last discourse of the original ones of his Idea of a University reminding the