Critical Mass

The Washington Post published an editorial by the president of the University of Notre Dame concerning the newly proposed policy at Harvard that would add a "Reason and Faith" course to the core curriculum (hat tip: Rebecca). President Jenkins writes:

The Harvard committee rightly noted that students coming to college today struggle with an academy that is "profoundly secular." This was not always the case, at Harvard or at many other universities. For centuries scholars, scientists and artists agreed that convictions of faith were wholly compatible with the highest levels of reasoning, inquiry and creativity. But in recent centuries this assumption had been challenged and assertions of faith marginalized in, and even banished from, academic departments and university curricula. Requiring courses in "Reason and Faith" would be a welcome step toward reintroducing faith to the academy.