ABSTRACT
In its modern iteration, the university is the location for professional training in the many branches of medicine, law, engineering, many new professional specialties, and of course, the science and research associated with these. Yet the self-understanding of many modern universities retains the view that alongside professional training, the university is an institution of inquiry – “teaching and research” – into the critical and constitutive issues of human flourishing, in all its rich diversity. The case argued in this book for the inclusion of theology in the university is that theology contributes in a distinctive way to this tradition of inquiry. Theology brings specific and very powerful resources to the engagement.
