{"id":16896,"date":"2016-08-26T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/?p=16896"},"modified":"2016-11-21T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T21:55:13","slug":"student-comments-map-year-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/2016\/08\/26\/student-comments-map-year-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Comments on the Map Year: II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-16897 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/julianlonglink-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Student Comments\" width=\"303\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/julianlonglink-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/julianlonglink-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/julianlonglink-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/julianlonglink-1-700x1050.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/>The Map Year program was,\u00a0for me, a chance to experience\u00a0a fuller breadth of both the\u00a0human and, by extension, the\u00a0Church&#8217;s intellectual tradition\u00a0over the past two centuries.\u00a0This year, aptly called a\u00a0&#8220;humanities year&#8221; was\u00a0anthropological in its outlook,\u00a0and was further an\u00a0anthropology tailored not only\u00a0to a seminarian&#8217;s self-understanding , but to an\u00a0understanding of the people\u00a0and society that he will be\u00a0serving. After two years of scholastic philosophical training, the\u00a0&#8220;humanities&#8221; year served as a bridge connecting my own experience\u00a0as a religious in the year 2016 with the thoughts of recent philosophers\u00a0and theologians, which in turn resonate harmoniously with the same\u00a0questions which Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas all\u00a0asked. In short, the year provided me with a concrete intellectual\u00a0instance of the overarching reality of the wisdom of God, who orders all\u00a0things &#8211; especially the history of human thought and reflection &#8211; &#8220;from\u00a0end to end mightily&#8221;, so as to lead men ultimately to the truth which is\u00a0Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Frater Julian Tsai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Map Year program was,\u00a0for me, a chance to experience\u00a0a fuller breadth of both the\u00a0human and, by extension, the\u00a0Church&#8217;s intellectual tradition\u00a0over the past two centuries.\u00a0This year, aptly called a\u00a0&#8220;humanities year&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/michaelclasscrop.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8brX6-4ow","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16898,"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions\/16898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oratory-toronto.org\/map-year\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}