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In Schall's sanctum
Washington Times ^ | Thursday, September 6, 2001 | Bryanna Hocking

Posted on 09/05/2001 11:06:51 PM PDT by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:46:23 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Among some students at Georgetown University, it's called majoring in Schall: trying to squeeze in as many courses with the noted Christian political philosopher the Rev. James V. Schall, S.J., as their four short years will permit.

"I took six," boasts Ian McGinley, a recent graduate. He ranks among the most hard-core Schallies students so devoted to the man and his teachings that they are known to sit in on the Schall courses they already have taken.


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1 posted on 09/05/2001 11:06:51 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
"Very often you do that by reading Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas, Chesterton," he says

Huh? I thought those guys were dead white males. Get with the program, Schall.

2 posted on 09/06/2001 12:19:35 AM PDT by Neanderthal
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To: JohnHuang2
Fr. Schall sounds like a Catholic version of C.S. Lewis!
3 posted on 09/06/2001 1:02:23 AM PDT by C7pilot
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To: JohnHuang2
Please see georgetown.edu/faculty/schallj/
4 posted on 09/06/2001 8:29:57 AM PDT by Valin
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To: JohnHuang2
He's one of the good guys. His book Another Sort of Learning is very worth reading.
5 posted on 09/06/2001 8:42:13 AM PDT by "Bare Ruined Choirs"
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To: JohnHuang2
After graduating from Georgetown, I don't think I've ever had a thought that wasn't influenced by Father Schall

Me, too, though I'm not going to be graduating from Georgetown. Perhaps in Graduate School. Aside from his aforementioned detailed web site, he has a column over here.

"Our regime is more and more a regime that institutionalizes and fosters disorders of soul that were classically defined as sins or moral faults. Moreover, it is a regime that does not want to hear that its public or private order can be questioned. Thus, it cannot stand aside peacefully and tolerate those who recall that virtue and vice, right and wrong, are not simply what is defined by the law as permissible."
-James V. Schall, SJ

6 posted on 09/06/2001 9:11:17 AM PDT by Dumb_Ox
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7 posted on 09/06/2001 2:00:00 PM PDT by Dumb_Ox
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To: JohnHuang2
Just a morning bump for a thoughtful article possibly overlooked.
8 posted on 09/07/2001 4:39:56 AM PDT by ventana
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To: Dumb_Ox
I liked one of the articles from your link in #6 so much that I posted it here.
9 posted on 09/08/2001 10:08:50 PM PDT by independentmind
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