The nucleus of any university is the intellectual life that unfolds among faculty and students. Inevitably, that intellectual life is shaped by the broader university context. Examining that process-in particular, its connection to a Catholic understanding of university mission-offers insight into pressing issues. For instance, what shifting social and academic conditions-both opportunities and challengesset a context for campus conversations? How might Catholic institutions respond to these conditions? Can Catholic institutions provide a hospitable place for integrating faith and reason at the institutional and personal levels? Can the Catholic intellectual tradition serve as a constructive and creative lens for transforming Catholic higher education? And drawing on ideas that emerged during the Boston College Roundtable seminars, how might change occur?
One of the unique contributions in this tribute is its inclusion of articles that focus on Dupuis' Asianness. Peter Phan names two Asian theologians, Aloysius Pieris and Choan-Seng Song as those who profoundly influenced Dupuis' theological openness to the holy mystery of God's presence in the world religions. While he possesses a thorough knowledge of the Christian tradition, Dupuis does not hesitate to appropriate positively the salvific role of the other religious traditions he experienced in Asia. There is no doubt that his theology has a definitely Asian dimension, in such a way that his Asian experience has put him in the forefront of Catholic theological efforts in the field of religious pluralism. Phan's phrase deserves to be used to conclude this review: "we are deeply grateful to him [Dupuis] for opening up the path, with great courage and at painful personal cost, so that others can travel further in the quest for understanding the marvelous and indeed stubborn fact of religious pluralism" [83].
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