Welcome back to the Word on Fire show.

I'm Dr. Matthew Patrusick, Senior Director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the

Word on Fire show. Thank you, as always, for joining us.

Friends, in honor of St. John Henry Newman's recently being named a doctor of the church,

we're bringing you Bishop Barron's entire Word on Fire Institute lecture series on John Henry Newman.

In these final weeks, we'll wrap up our series on one of Bishop Barron's spiritual and intellectual heroes.

As always, enjoy.

So with this lecture, I'm going to finish my consideration of Newman's idea of a university.

You know, I think the two points that we've made so far are the key ones, namely, theology belongs in the circle,

indeed, at the center of the circle of university disciplines and that the purpose of the university education

is to cultivate the liberal mind, seeking knowledge for its own sake.

In this final lecture, I'll look at some of the other observations Newman makes in the rest

of this series, including the final one about the relation between the liberal mind and religion and

the life of grace, if you want. And that's really where the thing comes to its full expression.

In the next discourse, he looks at the relationship between the philosophical habit, and we've

been describing that, and the contents of the mind

or the data of the mind. He'll say, look, memory is maybe the key feature in the cultivation of the

liberal mind. The mind has to bring in data. You're studying

whatever topic it is. You have to know a number of things. However, the philosophical

habit, the health of the mind, is not reducible to data. You know, it's interesting. I'm sure

you've met people like this who know a lot of things.

They can tell you all kinds of things about whatever, about physics or chemistry or about history or about their travels.

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