THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 26, 17 October 1884, Page 7

THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION.

At the International Conference on Education in the City and Gnilds Institute, Londoo, Cardinal Manning contributed a paper (read by Mr. Croft Worgaa Dew} on " Theological Teaching in a University : its sub-division into various branches." The teaching of a University, his Eminence contended, could not be complete unless it contained the whole circle of science, both sacred and secular. Within the circle would be contained the three great distinctions of theology, philosophy, and of physical knowledge, which in these later times had taken to itself almost exclusively the name of tcience. By theology was to be understood all that related to Go i and revelation, both in the natural and supernatural order ; by philosophy, all that related to the intellectual and moral nature and. powers of man ; and by physical science, all that related to the world, its laws and phenomena. The theological teaching of a University must include not only theology as defined, but also philosophy because the nature and constitution of man involved the whole theory of morals, which could not be separated from theology. No theological faculty would be complete which did not enunciate the whole* meaning, explicit and implicit, of the baptismal faith ; secondly, the critical and correct interpretation of Holy Scripture ; and thirdly, a precise and scientific terminology and logical expression of divine truth. The theological faculty oc a University required the following distinct chairs— chairs of philosophy, of dogmatic, or doctrinal theology, and of moral theology, including natural ethics ; of sacred languages. Hebrew and Greek, with the Oriental languages necessary for a critical knowledge of them ; of Holy (Scripture, of ecclesiastical history, and ot ecclesiastical jurisprudence or Canon Law.

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