Bradley G. Green teaches theology at Union University, and was a co-founder of Augustine School, a Christian liberal arts school, both of which are in Jackson, Tennessee. He is the author of The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life, and has published essays and reviews in such publications as Touchstone, Chronicles, and International Journal of Systematic Theology.
Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords our readers the opportunity to consider the Christian roots of liberal education. —W. Winston Elliott III, Publisher In the Western world there is a...
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.”
“We create men without chests and bid them breathe, we castrate geldings and bid them be...
Shapers of Christian Orthodoxy: Engaging with Early and Medieval Theologians, edited by Bradley G. Green
Whether you have studied academic theology or not, if you have an interest...
(From the epilogue to The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life) Why is it that wherever the gospel goes the academy follows? What does the...
In the Western world there is a rich tradition of the life of the mind. Much of the emphasis on the life of the mind in the West flows from our Christian inheritance, as seen in the biblical...
Richard Weaver
Somewhere along the way, many twentieth-century pilgrims have found inspiration and insight from the pen of Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963). More than one friend cites Weaver’s Ideas Have...
Bradley G. Green
“One ought not grow old in the study of the arts.”
I think any true recovery of the liberal arts will be very difficult, at least any recovery on a...
On the evening of the first presidential debate (October 3, 2012) I decided I would simply read, rather than watch the debate (I read first to my children, and after they went to bed, simply...
As the 2012 presidential election nears, various groups will be making their cases for this or that candidate. Some commentators will be looking at each candidate, and their stated political goals, their positions, and what they claim...
