An Expanded Reason university course for professors: A case study for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary dialogue between reason and faith

Abstract

The Catholic identity and inspiration of the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria is manifested, among other ways, in the application of what Pope Benedict XVI called ‘Expanded Reason’. The Expanded Reason Institute is working to equip UFV professors with the ability to incorporate a broader approach to their scientific disciplines, with a deeper and more open vision of the totality of reality. In this paper, we present the results of one of the Institute’s most recent initiatives: a training course designed to help full-time professors overcome the fragmentation of the sciences, seek the unity of knowledge, raise fundamental questions, recognise the limits of their particular field of science and engage in an enriching dialogue with philosophy and theology.

Keywords

• Expanded reason
• transdisciplinary dialogue
• Catholic university
• unity of knowledge