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Patristics and Christian Learning

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  1. Introduction

    Conversation: What are the Challenges Facing Our Children Today? (Preview Content)
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  2. Patristics & Christian Learning
    Lesson 1: Christ our Wisdom: Early Christian Ambiguity towards Human Knowledge
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  3. Lesson 2: Faith and Philosophy: The First Christian Apologists
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  4. Lesson 3: Pedagogy Human and Divine: The Alexandrians
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  5. Lesson 4: Origen & Gregory the Miracle-Worker: Watersheds in Christian Learning
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  6. Lesson 5: Virtue and Knowledge: Basil the Great and John Chrysostom on Education (Preview Content)
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  7. Lesson 6: Christ and Human Origins: Some Fathers on Faith and Science
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  8. Lesson 7: Christ the Inner Teacher: Augustine on Curiosity and Truth
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  9. Lesson 8: Desert Erudition: Early Christian Monastics on the Quest for Truth
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  10. Lesson 9: The Word Incarnate in All Things: Maximus the Confessor’s Vision of the World
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  11. Final Conversation
    Conversation: How do we Guide Our Children to Desire Wisdom?
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  12. End of Course Test
    End of Course Test: Patristics & Christian Learning
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  • Discuss Clement of Alexandria’s idea that considered philosophy as the summit of human wisdom and learning.  How is philosophy the summit of human wisdom and learning?  What does this mean for classical education?
  • How is God like a parent in giving instruction?
  • Discuss the following quote from Dr. Jordan Wood from this lecture:  Christian education is nothing other than your participation in God’s pedagogy, which we call creation.
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