George Grant was a Canadian political philosopher whose thoughts about higher education and the Christian faith are very trenchant. I heard about him through his book, Technology and Society, that was published by the University of Notre Dame Press.
In this book he has an extended rumination on the nature faith and education called "Faith and the Multiversity." Just to give a sample, he talks about the relation of the paradigm of knowledge as presented in the modern university to faith. "'Faith', he writes, is one of the central words of western thought which has had many meanings. What I intend by it is Simone Weil's definition: Faith is the experience that the intelligence is enlightened by love." Such a sentence, of course, simply moves one from the uncertainty of 'faith' to the even greater complexity of the word 'love'." (page 38) And off he goes . . .
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