Samuel Klumpenhouwer, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Samuel Klumpenhouwer

Samuel J. Klumpenhouwer teaches the liberal arts at Saint Theresa Catholic School, Sugar Land, Texas. He holds a PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto and specializes in the development of theology, canon law, and the ecclesiastical institutions of medieval Europe. He has published the first translation of the Glossa Ordinaria on Genesis, the standard Bible commentary of the High Middle Ages.

There Is Only One Great Book: The Bible

By Samuel Klumpenhouwer|2023-10-08T19:26:52-05:00July 29th, 2023|Categories: Bible, Catholicism, Christianity, Classical Education, Classical Learning, History, Literature|

Medieval civilization proved the Bible’s power to incorporate all the tales of the pagans. It was never the goal of Augustine, Jerome, and their successors to save classical literature, although that resulted from their efforts. What they wanted to know was Christ in the Scriptures. Despite the current enthusiasm over classical education, there is little [...]