Well . . . if Harvard U proposes requiring a course integrating issues of faith and reason for all students, then what shall the rest of us do?
I’m referring to a Harvard curriculum committee proposal noted in The Dallas Morning News 27OCT06, article by Rev. John I. Jenkins (Notre Dame president) and their provost Thomas Burish.
Also: http://www.pluralism.org/news/index.php#headline13793 for more details.
Students on Tiger Mountain take religion courses. Of course the Harvard thing is only surprising because it’s an all-university requirement, and because it is meant to tackle the “profoundly secular” intellectual and campus culture there. After 370 years that’s not so shocking, or it might be. (more…)