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 rich tradition of the life of the mind. Much of the emphasis on the life of the mind in the West flows from [...]
“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.”[1] “We create men without chests and bid them breathe, we castrate geldings and bid them be fruitful.”[2] “I wonder what they do teach them at these schools.”[3] At Augustine School we are committed to the authority of Scripture in [...]
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 in Christian thought, or theology, it is likely the case that along the way you have stumbled along a thinker or writer to whom you have been attracted. It [...]
(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 gospel have to do with the mind? I have tried—across five major themes—to delineate something of the relationship between the Christian vision of God, man, and [...]
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 documents, and in key thinkers of the West (e.g., Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Calvin, among others). As the [...]
Richard Weaver Somewhere along the way, many twentieth-century pilgrims have found inspiration and insight from the pen of Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963).[1] More than one friend cites Weaver’s Ideas Have Consequences when they recount their own intellectual journey, and when they describe when and how they began really to “think.” Best known as [...]
Bradley G. Green “One ought not grow old in the study of the arts.”[1] I think any true recovery of the liberal arts will be very difficult, at least any recovery on a grand scale. Having taught in elementary, middle school, high school, college, and seminary settings, I am pessimistic that we will [...]
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 by the fire with a book). My reasoning is simple: I love what the United States—at its best stands for, [...]
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 they want to accomplish. And some will look at the platforms of the two main political parties in [...]