14 April 2010

Even the teacher hates the textbooks.

This is a true statement. The textbooks used in my Theology class are so dubious that my teacher (with whom I frequently disagree) dislikes them. They take little snippets of encyclicals and other Church documents--JUST little snippets--and make them say things that make me look again. Both my teacher and I agree on the fact that we should be going directly to the sources in order to fully understand what is happening... the abominable dissection of documents should never be acceptable when attempting to refer to a source.

I vote Aquinas continues with its "going green" policy by abolishing Theology textbooks and going directly to the sources! Textbooks can be recycled, after all.

EDIT: I checked the Imprimatur on my "Catholic Social Teaching" textbook, and it was given by Bishop Anthony Pilla. I think that explains itself, since I did some Googling and discovered things which explain how the book even got an Imprimatur in the first place.

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