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| | Jim Turner, Notre Dame Magazine |
 | | Jim Turner, the unpretentious, easy-going scholar with Texas roots, who says he "writes books to solve problems, to answer questions," became its first director. |
 | | The Erasmus Institute, Turner says, is a vehicle for "making connections between Catholic faith traditions and the ideas that govern how we live on a day-to-day basis" as well as with the largely secular world of academe, keeping a "treasure house of 2,000 years of very creative thinking" in dialogue with todays intellectual currents. |
 | | While it is apparent Turner is committed to this enterprise, he is probably happiest buried in the archives, mining the past, then writing about his discoveries. |
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