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Catholic Education Resource Center: Search ResultsYour search returned... 0 Categories 39 LinksLinksCatholicism: What else is there? - James V. Schall, S.J.For born Catholics, familiarity with their faith can produce an inattentiveness to its inner coherence and its transcendent meaning. Read more... What A Student Owes His Teacher - James V. Schall, S.J.Students have obligations to their teachers, obligations arising from the fact that the teacher-student relationship is primarily a spiritual relationship. Read more... On Teaching the Important Things - James V. Schall, S.J.If one of our main purposes in life is to become wise, to understand the things that really matter, then we must seek where these important things are taught. Read more... On Teaching and Being Eminently Teachable - James V. Schall, S.J.To provoke the student, the potential philosopher, he must first be teachable, eminently teachable. Read more... On Teaching - James V. Schall, S.J.Each year a professor stands in some awe as he watches yet another class walk out the doors and into their world. Read more... On the Mystery of Teachers I Have Never Met - James V. Schall, S.J.My father, I believe, danced well, a talent that quite pleased the family. Read more... On Self-Discipline - James V. Schall, S.J.Self-discipline can become a form of pride in which we attribute to ourselves complete mastery over ourselves with no willingness to guide ourselves to ends that are to be served or people to be loved. Read more... Contemplata Tradere: On Its Being Better to Illuminate Than Merely To Shine - James V. Schall, S.J.Certain questions, good questions, never seem to be asked any more. Read more... Writing in an On-Line World - James V. Schall, S.J.If we set out to write a novel for the purpose of discovering ourselves, the worst thing that can happen to us is actually to find ourselves... Read more... On the Education of Young Men and Women - James V. Schall, S.J.Jacques Maritain wrote one book (Education at the Crossroads) and several essays (collected in The Education of Man) on education. Read more... Liberal Arts Education in a Free Society - James V. Schall, S.J.Liberal education agrees with Plato that self-rule is at the heart of civil order. Read more... Schall's Twenty Books to Keep Sane By - James V. Schall, S.J.There is another version of this list in Another Sort of Learning, where it is twenty-five books. Read more... On The Will to Know The Truth: Newman on Why Men of Learning Often Do Not B - James V. Schall, S.J.Men of learning often do not believe because they do not will to know the truth that makes us free. Read more... A Meditation on Evil - James V. Schall, S.J.The meditation on evil is not itself morbid or somber, though evil itself is. Socrates said in The Republic that virtue can know vice but vice cannot know evil. The penalty for vice is the vice itself, the not seeing the good in its fullness, the good that ought to be there. Read more... On The Will to Know The Truth: Newman on Why Men of Learning Often Do Not B - James V. Schall S.J.Men of learning often do not believe because they do not will to know the truth that makes us free. Read more... The Legacy’: Clinton as History’s Worst President - Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.When asked what I thought of this president, I usually replied, in my jaundiced, freedom-of-speech opinion, that “from what I can observe, he was the worst man ever to be president, and he was the worst president.” Compared to previous presidents both on the score of integrity and accomplishment, I place the president from 1992-2000 at the bottom of both lists. Read more... The God Of The Founding Fathers: Nature’s God - Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.The “nature’s God” of the American founding was the Christian God, at least in the ethical sphere. In the founders’ view, America was to be a country that was vitally religious but not officially concerned with the theological particulars of any specific religion. Read more... Catholicism: What Else is There? - James V. Schall, S.J.Catholicism has never been intellectually more coherent or - ironically - culturally weaker. I would be presumed to be brash if I were to propose that Catholicism has no intellectual enemies worthy of it anywhere on the modern scene. But this circumstance seems to be in fact the case. The situation is doubly paradoxical, I think, because from within the Church itself, this situation is hardly admitted. In fact its very truth is rejected or ignored by many Catholics. Read more... Assessing What is at Issue in This War - James V. Schall, S.J.As the ongoing, escalating war shows, the meaning of the contemporary rise of Islam is, ultimately, that we have reached the end of a theory of "tolerance" that refuses to understand the nature and consequences of ideas, religious, scientific, and political. Read more... Is The World Falling Apart? - James V. Schall, S.J.“It is a nice day,” I said to a lady in jogging togs as she ran past me in the park. But she said that she “could not enjoy it.” “Why?” I asked. “Well, I am so upset,” she replied. “I have been watching CNN News and the world seems to be falling apart.” Later, as I was reading Aristotle with my class, it was amazing how he was able to put things into perspective. Read more... “Islam Will Not Be the Loser” - James V. Schall, S.J.Hilaire Belloc’s study of the Crusades provides a unique and fascinating look at the relation of military and spiritual forces. To read him today is almost like reading current history. Read more... On Turning Around - James V. SchallThere is an expression of Platonic origin called "turning around," or sometimes, "conversion." It seems pertinent here in a more Christian context. In Plato, the phrase does not just mean a sudden reaction to something out of the ordinary. More profoundly, it refers to a reorienting of one's very soul on the basis of the new evidence or truth that is presented from outside our closed inner world. Read more... A Living University: A Conversation with Rev. James V. Schall - Kathryn Jean LopezWhat makes a good teacher? What is the most educational book ever written? Is there any advice you would give to young teachers starting out, who are possibly discouraged by the liberalism among the faculty and lack of enthusiasm among the students? Read more... Amid Roars of Happy Christmas Laughter - James V. Schall, S.J.One of Chesterton's Illustrated London News articles for Christmas, 1908 was entitled "The Wrong Books at Christmas." The first paragraph of the essay contains these most prophetic words: "The nation that has no gods at all not only dies, but what is more, is bored to death." Read more... Orthodoxy: Chesterton on the "Delight" of Truth - Rev. James V. Schall. S.J.This essay might be about the "splendor" of truth rather than about its "delight," but John Paul II has famously claimed the "splendor" for himself — Veritatis Splendor. Chesterton simply rejoices in truth, but not just for the sake of his own rejoicing, but because there is something to rejoice about. Read more... |
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