Church as mother of learning. Breen, Q. Encounter, 22(4):363--419, 1961. ![Church as mother of learning [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper abstract bibtex Breen brings the full power of his impressive erudition to support the assertion: Let secular learning be secular. He does this by way of first paying homage to our Western cultural heritage, namely, the intellectual and political goods of the Greco-Roman world. He then constructs a theological basis for letting secular learning be secular, followed by a historical survey of the Church's shifting role vis-a-vis secular learning, as alternately step-mother, foster mother, and, ideally, the mother of learning. His arguments are theological and historical. Breen bases his theological apologia on the doctrines of creation, providence, and the incarnation to defend the following: 1) Christianity is a religion of human redemption...[so it's] necessary to know the nature of the man who is to be saved...which cannot be known apart from secular learning; 2) man and the natural order being created by God, secular learning has a sacred character; 3) In the Incarnation God became man, thereby bestowing a most extraordinary honor on man including his life of natural reason. The subtitle to the essay reads "Of secular learning: Let it be secular" So would he therefore oppose the idea of faith-learning integration or deem it unnecessary?
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title = {Church as mother of learning},
volume = {22},
issn = {0013-7081},
url = {http://ezproxy.wheaton.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=rfh&AN=ATLA0000681471&site=ehost-live},
abstract = {Breen brings the full power of his impressive erudition to support the assertion: Let secular learning be secular.
He does this by way of first paying homage to our Western cultural heritage, namely, the intellectual and political goods of the Greco-Roman world. He then constructs a theological basis for letting secular learning be secular, followed by a historical survey of the Church's shifting role vis-a-vis secular learning, as alternately step-mother, foster mother, and, ideally, the mother of learning.
His arguments are theological and historical. Breen bases his theological apologia on the doctrines of creation, providence, and the incarnation to defend the following: 1) Christianity is a religion of human redemption...[so it's] necessary to know the nature of the man who is to be saved...which cannot be known apart from secular learning; 2) man and the natural order being created by God, secular learning has a sacred character; 3) In the Incarnation God became man, thereby bestowing a most extraordinary honor on man including his life of natural reason.
The subtitle to the essay reads "Of secular learning: Let it be secular" So would he therefore oppose the idea of faith-learning integration or deem it unnecessary?},
number = {4},
urldate = {2014-01-01TZ},
journal = {Encounter},
author = {Breen, Quirinus},
year = {1961},
keywords = {Christian learning and scholarship, Church, Education and church, Education, Medieval, FLbibessay, FLhistory, FLmedieval, FLuniversity, Learning and scholarship, Liberalarts},
pages = {363--419}
}
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