Boston College - Sub Turri Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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THROUGH A KNOWLEDGE OF GOD In an era when thoughtless men hurl their insults at the very notion of God, Boston College, ever the guardian of truth, strives even more diligently to focus the intellects of her students upon the One, Great, Eternal Reality,— God. In giving students intellectual grounds for their belief in God, Boston College may rejoice that she has always taught the truths which the Holy Father desires to be promulgated with increased fervor during the 1950 Holy Year. There have been those who have ridicided the emphasis which Boston Col- lege, and all other Catholic colleges place upon theology as a part of the cur- riculum. To men of such dispositions, Boston College addresses a question which they can never answer: Quid hoc ad aeternitatem? With all the resovuces of Sacred Scripture, reason and tradition at her command, Boston College insists upon and proves that from the Person of Jesus Christ, true God and true Man, radiates a whole system of religion. For Christ is pre-eminently a sun, from whose radiant center stream forth the bright rays of divine truths that consti- tute the complete revelation of God to man.

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THROUGH A KNOWLEDGE OF MAN The study of scholastic philosophy is an integral part of the system of educa- tion at Boston College and every other Jesuit college. Deriving its place of precedence from the counsels of the Ratio atque Institutio Sludiorum, it is one of the most ennobling pursuits of Jimior and Senior Years, and rightly so. For scholastic philosophy enjoys a relationship to theology not unlike that of cjueen to king. Working hand in hand, each of these two sciences, one secular, the other sacred, points out to man the ways of truth and justice and the goal of existence. In one treatise after another, scholastic philosophy discerns, dis- sects and destroys the subtleties and inconsistencies of error and falsehood and thus makes a faith founded upon reason feasible. The value of this study has often been cpiestioned by the disciples of skepticism and relativism. To them and to all men, Boston College presents the great lives and names which have been made realities by the maturing influence of scholastic philosophy. Time and men may have tried scholastic philosophy, but it has never been found M ' antina;.