Christians Reading Pagans — The Renaissance
Part 4 explores the return of Greek learning in the Renaissance.
Tag: John Carr
Christians Reading Pagans — Part 3
Part 3 explores the middle age's creative appropriation of the pagan past.
Christians Reading Pagans — Part 2
Part 2 explores the attitudes toward pagan literature found among the Greek fathers, with particular attention to Basil the Great.
Christians Reading Pagans — Part 1
The Early Latin West: Tertullian, the irascible third century African church father, famously criticized the use of pagan literature by Christians with a terse question:…
Reading the Book of Nature
Before my children learned to recognize the letters of the alphabet, reading a story to them was a mysterious, magical exercise. For example – some…
To Hear the Past Speak with its Own Voice
That he whose soul would touch the very pastMust build himself a delicate consciousnessOut of the dreams of old civilizations,Must see with ancient eyes, not…
Educating in (and into) Freedom
A student once confided to me during recess that he was planning to leave our small classical school at the end of the year. He…
