Augustine’s Confessions: Interiority at the Core of the Core Curriculum 1

Religions

Michael Chiariello¹  Scott McGinnis¹ 

[1] Department of Philosophy, P. O. Box 2, St. Bonaventure University, St. Bonaventure, NY 14778, USA; E-Mail

关键词: Augustine;    Bonaventure;    core curriculum;   

DOI  :  10.3390/rel6030755

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

When St. Bonaventure University decided to redesign its core curriculum, we turned to Bonaventure’s account of the mind’s journey to God in the Itinerarium Mentis in Deum as a paradigm by which to give coherence to the undergraduate experience consistent with our mission and tradition. Bonaventure was himself an Augustinian philosopher and thus Augustine’s Confessions holds a place of great significance in our first year seminar where it is studied in conjunction with Bonaventure’s inward turn to find God imprinted on his soul. This paper is an account of the original rationale for including Augustine’s Confessions in our curriculum and a report of continuing faculty and student attitudes towards that text nearly two decades later.

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