“Lewis is up to a larger project than telling a single story: he wants to re-enchant our imaginations to perceive the wonder and the glory of creation as the complex, beautiful, coherent work of the loving Creator. Our task is to receive the gift of reality, and spend both our lifetimes and an eternity-forward unfolding this beautiful gift.”
What happens to a person when he has a classical education in high school but decides to pursue a modern, secular education in college?
I have recently re-encountered the argument that classical Christian educators should focus their years of language classes on Greek rather than Latin. This view primarily arises because parents and educators want their students to read the New Testament in its original language. Proponents of this view suppose that, if we are to spend all this…
Image: Athanasius trampling down Heresy; Santa Maria Sopra Minerva Basilica in Rome The name Athanasius is symbolic of the victory over Arianism in the generation of the Council of Nicaea. His tombstone read, “Athanasius Contra Mundum,” which means, “Athanasius Against the World.” He would be exiled five times by four emperors, three of whom professed…
Astronomy crowns the sequence of the mathematical arts because it unites arithmetic, geometry, and music in a sublime study of the cosmos itself.
Each year, New Aberdeen students pore over a single work of literature from the classical Christian tradition. This fall, they are becoming well acquainted with John Milton’s Paradise Lost: Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast(e) Brought Death into the World, and…
This quip in classical education does not accurately express the educational goals. According to many of its proponents, classical education teaches students “how to think, not what to think.” This axiom juxtaposes the tendency in modern education to indoctrinate students into an ideology without offering them time-tested tools to interact with ideas on their own….
The natural sciences are critical to a proper Classical Christian Education. The four arts in the quadrivium explained the ancient cosmology, providing the pupil with a deeper appreciation of God’s world. Dr. Williams addresses the Christian worldview behind the sciences, and he demonstrates how New Aberdeen students would explore astronomy in a classical setting.
“None of these benefits of a classical education are more basic to ministry in the Church than the graces and gifts of Christ. But they can be the means that the Spirit of Christ uses to better equip the preacher, pastor, and churchman for his noble task.”