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The Protestant Prejudice may respond to natural law understood from within the modes of common sense and classical metaphysics, but largely overlooks contemporary natural law beginning from the first-person account of subjectivity and practical reason. Consequently, the sophisticated thought of John Paul I, Martin Rhonheimer, Germain Grisez, and John Finnis is overlooked. 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Turning to Augustine, or at least Augustine in conversation with Aquinas, Martin Heidegger, the overlooked Jesuit thinker Bernard Lonergan, and the important contemporary Charles Taylor, this book provides a normative vision for Christian higher education. A phenomenological reappropriation of human subjectivity reveals an authentic order to love, even when damaged by sin, and loves, made authentic by grace, allow the intellectually, morally, and religiously converted person to attain an integral unity. Properly understanding the integral relation between love and the fullness of human life overcomes the split between intellectual and moral formation, allowing transformed subjects--authentic lovers--to live, seek, and work towards the values of a certain kind of cosmopolitanism. Christian universities exist to make cosmopolitans, properly understood, namely, those persons capable of living authentically. In other words, this text gives a full-orbed account of human flourishing, rooted in a phenomenological account of the human as basis for the mission of the university. Endorsements: Cone and Snell criticize current theory and practice of education in the best way possible: they offer a clear and inspiring alternative. They ground the alternative not in the latest Gallup poll or the latest pop psychology, but in rereading of authors and traditions recognized by the model they criticize. Dynamite comes in small packages. You have been warned. --Gregory A. Clark, Professor of Philosophy, North Park University Here is a valuable contribution to Christian reflection on the foundational problems of education and spiritual order. Cone and Snell are alive to the dynamics of love, wonder, and bias in the unfolding of the human spirit. They creatively reappropriate and enrich a great tradition to propose a compelling vision for Christian higher education. Anyone serious about cultural renewal will profit from this book. --Jeremy D. Wilkins, Associate Professor, Regis College at the University of Toronto About the Contributor(s): Steven Cone is Assistant Professor of Theology and Chair of the Bible\/Theology Field in the Undergraduate School at Lincoln Christian University. R. J. 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