Anyone know anything about the Augustine Institute? I see that they do distance ed. I also see that they are not yet accredited.
Hmm.
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The Augustine Institute is really a very new program. I suspect, though I have nothing more than a hunch here, that Abp. Chaput is supportive of it primarily because the local Jesuit institution, Regis University, no longer has a theology program, only a religious studies program, and this department does not offer a graduate degree.
When it began a couple of years ago the Augustan Institue was housed at the John Paul II center for the New Evangelization, which also houses the Archdiocesan offices, 2 seminaries and a wonderful theological library.
More recently, the Augustan Institue has move out to the old Loretto Heights campus, which used to house a catholic women’s college run by the Sisters of Loretto, but is now owned by the Japanese Teikyo University.
The faculty is small, and not all of them are PhD’s. However the ones I have met, Sean Innerest, Joe Burns and Curtis Martin are dedicated and intellegent catholics with varried careers in lay ministry. Curtis Martin, for example developed FOCUS (the Fellowship of Catholic University Students), which has become a significant organization in the midwest and mountain states.
To be perfectly honest, I’m not sure that the Augustan Institue would be a good fit for a traditionalist, from what I’ve heard about the program and know about this program, it has a very “steubenville” spirituality.
Ben,
Steve has no experience whatsoever with “Steubenville” spirituality. A more in-depth explanation may be required.
I’m not sure I’m comfortable defining “steubenville” spirituality, I might say something I would come to regret. I would say that it would fall withing these greneral parameters:
Devoted to Pope John Paul II; Charismatic; Evangelical; Strong preference for the Ordinary Form rather than the Extraordinary form, but lacking a hostility to the Extraordinary Form; Strong devotion to the Theology of the Body and Natural Family Planning and averse to those catholics who do not practice a disciplined form of child spacing; as a genreal rule familes with 4-5 kids not 8-10 kids; appreciative of BOTH gregorian chant AND guitar music at liturgy; more comfortable with conservative protestantism that traditionalist catholics are; likely to see a similarity between Hans Kung and Abp. Marcel Lefebvre–both heretics-one on the left, one on the right.
ben,
James is pulling your leg. I got my BA from Steubenville and he knows how much I *loved* their spirituality. (Steubie may have been what set me irrevocably on the path to tradition.)
And it’s a worthwhile consideration you brought up. I don’t know how I would like dealing with that again. To an extent, it’s probably unavoidable in Catholic Academia.
More to chew on.
Sorry Ben, I was pulling your leg. And I did put a sarcasm tag at the end of my comment, but blasted WordPress filtered it out.
Ben,
I forgot to mention what a thorough description you gave. Probably the
best, and most objective, that I’ve seen.
Not a single reference to “charispastics”.
My favorite Catholic school is George Mason University!