Introduction

transcending academic orthodoxies

Kenneth García

3-23

The nineteenth-century German university and German idealism

Theodore Ziolkowski

25-43

The open circle

the Catholic university and academic freedom

James L. Heft

45-60

Academic freedom, religion and the natural sciences

Tom McLeish

63-84

The language of spiritual literature in a post-religious era

Michael N. McGregor

87-96

Academic freedom, religion and social science

Stories from the front

Douglas V. Porpora

113-132

Freedom-from or freedom-for?

academic freedom, responsibility, and the revival of the liberal arts

Michele Averchi, Emanuele Colombo

133-152

The transcending orthodoxy

revealed truth authenticating academic freedom in the catholic university

Reinhard Hütter

155-177

The freedom to "bridge" silos and the role of theology in a Catholic university

Bernard Brady

179-198