Introducing the CNLAP ·
The Cardinal Newman Liberal Arts Project is a lay initiative seeking to establish a baccalaureate curriculum inspired by Newman’s Idea of a University and John Paul II’s Fides et Ratio. The Cardinal Newman Liberal Arts Project (CNLAP) seeks to represent the heart of Western learning from Homer, Plato, and Aristotle to Dante and Shakespeare, Melville and Faulkner. The college project strives to illuminate the universality of the human experience. It provides a forum for spirited investigation, discussion, debate, dialogue, argument, and learning concerning the most critical truths of the human condition. The project is an ecumenical undertaking for learners from diverse backgrounds, faith traditions, and academic perspectives.
The CNLAP is dedicated, in honor of John Henry Cardinal Newman, to founding a center of learning where, in the words of John Paul II,
- scholars scrutinize reality with the methods proper to each academic discipline and so contribute to the treasury of human knowledge,
- a collegium magistrorum et scholarium is dedicated to research, to teaching, and to the education of students, who freely associate themselves with their teachers in a common love of knowledge, and
- where research necessarily includes the search for an integration of knowledge, a dialogue between faith and reason, an ethical concern, and a theological perspective.
