The University Education in a Fragmented World. A contribution from Sophia University Institute

Callebaut Bernhard ()
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Callebaut Bernhard: IU Sophia, Loppiano, Italy

Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration, 2016, vol. 22, issue 1, 111-122

Abstract: The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin (KUL) was the very first University to honor the Italian religious leader Chiara Lubich, with a honorary degree. In 2007, Chiara Lubich who shared with Henry cardinal Newman some very similar intuitions on the task of a University, founded on the basis of the charism the Church recognized in her the University Institute Sophia (IUS) in Tuscany (Italy). This was to be the very last initiative of her long life as the foundress of the Focolare Movement, Chiara Lubich wanted it to be an interdisciplinary institute bringing together life and studies in harmony. Now, after more than eight years of life, the author dresses a ‘state of the union’ of this University Institute, in the context of the crisis of the universitarian world today.

Keywords: university education; interculturality and interreligious dialogue; competence; Chiara Lubich (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/pepsi-2016-0006

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