The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
stuff. Of course there was and is all the Arthurian world, but powerful as it is, it is imperfectly naturalized, associated with the soil of Britain but not with English; and does not replace what I felt to be missing. For one thing its ‘faerie’ is too lavish, and fantastical, incoherent and repetitive. For another and more important thing: it is i
... See moreChristopher Tolkien • The Silmarillion
stories are where theology comes off the page and begins to transform the landscape of human possibility.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Classical Christian education employs the language arts (Trivium: grammar, logic, rhetoric) and the mathematical arts (Quadrivium: astronomy, arithmetic, music, geometry) in the pursuit of educating whole persons – mind, body, and soul. These arts are not simply subjects, but are as they are called – arts. That is, they are principles and methods o... See more
What is Classical Education? — Beautiful Teaching
But the most famous familiar one is the story where things fall apart, and how this culturally stable setting with your coherence and just the attempt of the protagonist trying to live true to those moral demands on his person creates trouble, which tells me, and I think, to any other reader, that the world is imbued with irony and paradox and comp... See more