Augustine's Confessions: Interiority at the Core of the Core Curriculum

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. Bon...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Religions
Main Author: Chiariello, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Published: MDPI [2015]
In: Religions
Further subjects:B Augustine
B Bonaventure
B core curriculum
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
Volltext (Verlag)
Volltext (doi)
Description
Summary: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.
ISSN:2077-1444
Contains:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel6030755