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May 15, 2015

Is There a Place for Religion in a University?

Or is it just "Drink, drink, drink"?

The 19th-century English theologian and churchman John Henry Newman spent much of his career reflecting on this question. As an undergraduate at Oxford, he wrote to his father that “if anyone should ask me what qualifications were necessary for [admission], I should say there was only one—Drink, drink, drink.” As a mature thinker, Newman developed a sophisticated argument against those who favored the uncompromising secularization of the university, contending that their position stemmed from overconfidence in the power of human knowledge. Edward Short writes:

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