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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
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Named Person: | John Henry Newman, Saint; John Henry Newman; John Henry Newman |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Henry Newman, Saint; Frank M Turner |
ISBN: | 0300064047 9780300064049 0300064055 9780300064056 |
OCLC Number: | 33103649 |
Notes: | APPE gift. |
Description: | xxxiv, 366 pages ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction to interpretative essays : "Newman in his own day" / Martha McMackin Garland -- "Newman's university and ours" / Frank M. Turner -- "Theology and the university : Newman's idea and current realities" / George M. Marsden -- "The paradox of self in The idea of a university" / Sara Castro-Klarén -- "Newman and the idea of an electronic university" / George P. Landow. |
Series Title: | Rethinking the Western tradition. |
Responsibility: | John Henry Newman ; Frank M. Turner, editor ; contributors, Martha McMackin Garland [and others]. |
Abstract:
Originally published almost 150 years ago, five parts of "The Idea of a University" - "University Teaching" and four selections from "University Subjects" - are reproduced here, along with five essays by contemporary scholars exploring the present day relevance of Newman's themes.
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