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All are invited to bring their insights, experiences, and intelligence to the expansive search for truth, meaning, and justice that animates both the Catholic intellectual tradition and Boston College.  \nthe catholic intellectual tradition the catholic intellectual tradition  \na 2,000-year-long conversation  \nfor christians, the dialogue between faith and culture is as old as their earliest efforts to articulate what it means to be a distinctive faith community. The first Christians—drawn together by their faith in the uniqueness and universal significance of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth—were members of Jewish communities living in a Roman political system and influenced by a linguistic and intellectual culture that was largely Greek in origin. Asthe Christian “way” moved beyond these Jewish communities, attracted Gentile converts, and spread across the Roman world and beyond, a Christian intellectual tradition or, better, a constellation of traditions developed, which were the product ofa continuous dialogue between faith and cultures. With the fragmentation of the Christian churches, especially in the 15th and 16th centuries, the Catholic intellectual tradition in the West developed its own characteristics. Since the medieval period, one of its principal venues has been the university, which arose “ex corde ecclesiae,” from the heart of the Church.  \nThis dialogue between faith and culture reflects two essential characteristics of the Christian, and especially the Catholic, understanding of human experience: faith necessarily seeks understanding, and all intellectual inquiry leads eventually to questions of ultimacy that invite faith responses. Thus, reason has been intrinsic to the life of the Catholic Church, which sees the search for truth as a manifestation of the Creator: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…all was created through the Word”(John 1:1 and 3). The Greek for “word”—logos—has  \na second meaning: reason. For the Catholic, thinking is part of believing, and the Catholic view sees no conflict among faith, knowledge, and reason; it looks to how they illuminate one another.  \nNowhere is this engagement more clear than in the work of Thomas Aquinas, whose pursuit of truth led him into intellectual conversation with a remarkably diverse set of partners. He chose not only to engage the thought of Aristotle at a time when some in the Church were suspicious of the ancient philosopher’s teachings, but also to enter into dialogue with Muslim and Jewish thinkers, such as Averroes and Maimonides. Aquinas’ passionate engagement with the intellectual pluralism of his times enriched and strengthened the Catholic intellectual tradition.  \nNonetheless, getting hold of this “Catholic intellectual tradition” is a challenge. It contains a vast repository of theological thought; philosophizing; devotional practices; works of literature, visual art, music, and drama; styles of architecture; legal reasoning; social and political theorizing; and other forms of cultural expression that have emerged in vastly different parts of the world in the course of 2,000 years of Christian religious experience. Can one even synthesize the meaning of this vast archive, sum up its principles, and make them relevant to contemporary intellectual life in a way that would justify speaking of a tradition? 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