John Paul II’s Vision of Education: A Conversation with John Hittinger
In this conversation, Dr. John Hittinger explores the sources of John Paul II’s vision of education, taking up his historically rooted and deeply cultural, Thomistic Personalism as the foundation of that vision. Ranging over a wide variety of works—including music and poetry—Prof. Hittinger considers the relation between faith and reason, a relation in which the former acts as a “force multiplier” of the latter. He also considers the confidence that should mark Catholic higher education and the role of literature and the imagination in liberal learning.
Links of potential interest:
George Weigel’s John Paul II Trilogy
Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II--The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy
Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II
Pope Saint John Paul II, Fides et Ratio (“Faith and Reason”)
Pope Saint John Paul II, Ex corde ecclesiae (On Catholic Universities/From the Heart of the Church)
Pope Saint John Paul II, “Letter to Artists”
Henryk Górecki, “Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”
Pope Saint John Paul II, Memory and Identity: Conversations at the Dawn of a Millennium