WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION?

Abstract

Abstract The purpose of this article is to describe the eclipse of a distinctive Catholic philosophy of education. The article presents an analysis of the neo‐Thomistic philosophy of education. Second, it speculates on the reasons for its rapid decline in the past three decades. The article concludes with a sketch of a contemporary Catholic educational theory, based on the work of Bernard Lonergan, a Jesuit philosopher‐theologian, and Paulo Freire, the Brazilian Catholic educator.