The Circle of the Disciplines:  Newman’s Vision of the Integration of Knowledge and the Catholic University (David P. Deavel) 

In this dicussion with David Deavel, we take up Newman’s ‘Circle of Sciences,’ including the ways in which we bring together old and new disciplines as well as theoretical and applied disciplines in the contemporary university.  But what of research?  And what of the roles of philosophy and theology? Deavel disabuses us of misunderstandings surrounding Newman’s understanding of the place of research in the university and clarifies the essential work of theology and philosophy in ordering the Circle and the larger university.

Links of potential interest:

“25 Years: Logos and My Catholic Life”

Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West

David Deavel at the Imaginative Conservative

Newman, The Idea of University

Paul Shrimpton, The 'Making of Men'. The Idea and Reality of Newman's university in Oxford and Dublin

Christopher O. Blum, “The Promise of Newman’s Collegiate Ideal”

David Fleischacker, “The Place of Modern Scientific Research in the University According to John Henry Newman”