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Rose Hill had more than money problems, but some good ideas and hard lessons can to be learned from that experience. Fr. Peter Leigh was heavily involved in that venture. A bit more: http://augustachronicle.com/stories/090598/fea_rosehill.shtml
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The "focus was too narrow."
The other problem with a narrow focus is application. What will one do with it? Some might reason that their time can be better spent getting a skill for employment. When I graduated with my classmates from a liberal arts college (in philosophy), the degree couldn't buy a cup of coffee. Though my one friend from Kentucky said that putting it in his car window might get him handicapped parking priveleges. And can it ever be applied in one's own church? Maybe a volunteer job as a catechist? or adult ECF education coordinator - if the pastor is willing to allow educated lay folks to help out? What if there is a conflict between laity educated and clergy educated applicants? But then one will still have to get a paying job. Just some thoughts.
Degree of focus and equitable application. Two key ingredients.
Will Heideggar be read? He really changes the game rules in metaphysics. Plato and Aristotle begin to sound as if they are from the same end of the spectrum.
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I hope the people involved with this endeavor have an "angel" on their side. Realisticly, endeavors like these fail not because of a lack of curriculum, but because of a lack of money. More start ups fail than succeed, and those that succeed do so, more often than not, because there are benefactors with deep pockets who can subsidize the day-to-day operations.
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Originally posted by Dan Lauffer: John Weisner, interviewed just this week on "Light from the East" is the president of a new college ventured called Transfiguration College. It is to be patterned after the Great Books model with an emphasis upon Eastern Christian giants. Take a look at the website. www.transfigurationcollege.org [transfigurationcollege.org] It is a fantastic concept due to start in the fall 2006.
Dan L It sounds like a great idea. I hope it comes to fruition. I only wish it had opened years ago, so I could have attended. I hope to see a list of those great books, broken down by subject area, so I could (ahem) take a look and decide which I might yet need to read (espcially on Eastern Christian subjects . . . :-) Many years. --John
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