The mind behind all of this is St. Thomas, ever the Augustinian, who taught that grace perfects nature. If a student of ours someday counts all his learning as straw beside the God it pointed to, our teaching will have succeeded completely.

Key Terms and Definitions that guide teaching at St. Augustine School.

This article aruges that Catholic investigation into the history of dogma, as practiced by Scheeben, Franzelin and Newman, has a different object of enquiry than what might be called the historicist strain. Whereas historicism in Christianity seems interested in the phenomena of human thought and actions as the inheritors of the Gospel message, Scheeben and Franzelin study those same phenomena not for their own sake but as witnesses to the ecclesial tradition of apostolic deposit.

“Education then is not merely to teach reading or writing — not to fit is for the successful performance of our worldly calling, not to inculcate the bare principles of belief and practice; it is not to impart barren lifeless knowledge; but to work together with God in the salvation of souls.”

John Henry Newman