irrelevance of theology

[tbieter]

Heythrop College to Close

Heythrop College, the University of London’s specialist philosophy and theology college, is to shut in 2018 with the loss of 91 jobs, bringing its 400 years of history to an end. The Governors announced on 25 June that it will close after fulfilling its commitments to its existing students, and blamed financial pressures arising from the modest size of the college. Heythrop is a Jesuit foundation, and there had been hopes of saving it by forming a partnership with St Mary’s University in Twickenham to share administrative costs, but the plan fell through after an entire year of talks. A petition calling for the Governors to carry on exploring ways of saving Heythrop has now been signed by many of Britain’s most prominent philosophy professors.
This is to be expected in a secular materialist culture.
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[alpha]

i don't know what to say. it's unfortunate.

[Vor]

tbieter wrote:

Heythrop is a Jesuit foundation, and there had been hopes of saving it by forming a partnership with St Mary’s University in Twickenham to share administrative costs, but the plan fell through after an entire year of talks.

What is a Jesuit?

Does this fit comfortably with Philosophy. A Jesuit, is a Roman Catholic, profoundly accepting that things in this world ( philosophy and science included), are but a means for him to work out the salvation of his soul.

Logically every fibre of the Jesuit tends to upholding his church and that every part of his life ought to be consecrated to that end alone. Any other doctrine, or any philosophical system that is hostile to the church must be doggedly resisted and avoided. The Church is in absolute possession of the truth and cannot be wrong.

It makes no sense. How did it survive this long?

[Hobbes' Choice]

Heythrop College to Close

Heythrop College, the University of London’s specialist philosophy and theology college, is to shut in 2018 with the loss of 91 jobs, bringing its 400 years of history to an end. The Governors announced on 25 June that it will close after fulfilling its commitments to its existing students, and blamed financial pressures arising from the modest size of the college. Heythrop is a Jesuit foundation, and there had been hopes of saving it by forming a partnership with St Mary’s University in Twickenham to share administrative costs, but the plan fell through after an entire year of talks. A petition calling for the Governors to carry on exploring ways of saving Heythrop has now been signed by many of Britain’s most prominent philosophy professors.
This is to be expected in a secular materialist culture.
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Yeah! What the fuck is your last sentence all about?

[Hobbes' Choice]

i don't know what to say. it's unfortunate.

Unfortunate that a petition is going round to save it, or unfortunate that is is closing down?

[Hobbes' Choice]

Heythrop College to Close

Heythrop College, the University of London’s specialist philosophy and theology college, is to shut in 2018 with the loss of 91 jobs, bringing its 400 years of history to an end.

Let God save it!

[Dalek Prime]

A college is not a building, but the people who comprise it.

If Westminster burnt down (again), you'd find another building to meet.

[Lacewing]

It seems that before archaic practices/thinking can dissolve, it typically puts up a desperate fight to preserve itself... sometimes to insane extremes. It may be unable to incorporate anything new gracefully, since flexibility and broader growth would likely threaten its locked-down foundation (which may have become its entire identity). People can feel that when their ideas/beliefs die, they die. The irony is when we think that we have a lock-down on truth, it could be that very lock-down that is missing the greater truth altogether. Yet, if we remain flexible, we discover how much more there always is. I think it would be good if more theists continually realized their connection to, and equal place within, the rest of the world -- then maybe we could get past all this phony-baloney theist superiority and separation that has totally infected and distorted the better ideals we all share.

[alpha]

i don't know what to say. it's unfortunate.

Unfortunate that a petition is going round to save it, or unfortunate that is is closing down?

perhaps neither.