Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

Summer 6-2007

Abstract

The two-day seminar offered a good window into the research interests of my Seton Hall University colleagues in departments other than my own. Such a forum to listen, converse, and exchange ideas with a broad spectrum of fellow faculty members are few, so I was appreciative of the opportunity to do so under the framework of Signature III. A recurring question for me has
been the issue of how the various research programs (or course proposals) might reflect or fit into what can be called the Catholic intellectual tradition (CIT). To be sure, CIT is itself something more amorphous than rigidly defined, so in this respect, the many course proposals that were presented
can be seen as part of or contributing to CIT in some way. But is there a conceptual framework that can help us (maybe, just help me) to better understand how the work of colleagues in various fields
represents CIT?