St. Andrew’s Foundation for Catholic Teacher Education
University of Glasgow
Cardinal Winning Lecture 2016
February 6 2016: 9.45 am
Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre (1, University Avenue)

Professor Tracey Rowland – John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family (Melbourne, Australia)  – Catholic Education: A Theological Project

 Summary
A Catholic vision of education is built upon a Catholic anthropology.  A basic Catholic theological principle is that everything in creation has been marked by the form of the Trinity, and this is especially so of the human person.  Trinitarian relationships abound in nature as mathematicians tell us, and within Catholic anthropology there is a highly important Trinitarian relationship between faculties of the human soul, such as the intellect, the memory and the will, and the theological virtues of faith, hope and love, and the transcendental properties of being, principally, truth, beauty and goodness.  Getting these anthropological foundations right was the secret of the success of the great religious educational orders.

Professor Rowland is the Dean and Permanent Fellow of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family, Melbourne, Australia.

 To register for the lecture please email Arlene Burns, putting ‘Cardinal Winning Lecture 2016’ in the subject box: arlene.burns@glasgow.ac.uk