The Adeodatus Handbook on Catholic Education and Culture: Volume 1: From Jesus the Teacher to St. John Henry Newman

Catholic education stands in need of renewal, for it too has experienced the consequences of the rupture of faith and reason in the modern period.Secularism affects Catholic schools as well as public ones when faith remains confined solely to a religion class or the celebration of the Mass.Our past provides a model of integration: the unity of divine revelations and the liberal arts and a life of wisdom that pursues what is truly highest.Modern people too often settle for less-little comforts and distractions-while the theologians, philosophers, and educators of the past spur us on to stop at nothing less than God's invitation to enter his divine life. This first volume of the Adeodatus Handbook seeks to provide inspiration to return to the central vision of Catholic education: an integrated approach to the liberal artsthat flows from God's initiative toward us and is ordered toward eternal union with him.The essays of this volume unfold the narrative offered in this introduction in mo