NEwman Lectures

The Newman Lectures aim to foster an important discussion: between faith and reason, faith and the university. The atmosphere of the university presents the perfect grounds for this conversation. John Henry Newman, a professor at Oxford University for many years and the founder of the Catholic University of Dublin said in his “Idea of University”:

“This I conceive to be the advantage of a set of universal learning, considered as a place of education. (…) Thus is created a pure and clear atmosphere of thought, which the student also breathes, though in his own case he only pursues a few sciences out of the multitude.” (Idea, 95)

We must not reduce knowledge and education just to our own area of interest or expertise. A university should provide the possibility for that interaction among different sets of knowledge within an organic education. This is what Newman called the enlargement of mind.

A true enlargement of mind is the goal of the Newman Lectures. For this purpose we want to bring the best speakers in each area. There are three lectures held per year, once each academic term. If you would like to know when our next lecture is, please head over to our events page.