Published in Classical Teacher, Spring 2007 Reprinted in Classis, Volume XIV, no. 5 by Martin Cothran We all know them. They fight imaginary sword battles. They draw pictures of orcs and dwarves. Sometimes they even try to learn the elvish language. They seem, in...
This article first appeared at The Federalist and is reprinted by permission. Republished in Classis Volume XXVI, no. 2 Classical education is not at the mercy of our culture. Instead, it has the potential to shape a new culture that is anchored in reality. In 1981,...
Originally published in Classis, Volume XXVI, No. 1 In my previous essay, I considered a sevenfold narrative paradigm employed by Canadian literary critic and ordained minister Northrop Frye in The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (HBJ, 1982) to help readers...
Originally published in Classis, Volume XXVII, No. 3 By William Isley During this coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown, it occurred to me to read a few of the descriptions of plagues in some classic texts of Western civilization. In times like these, which are...
Orginally published in Classis, Volume XXVII, No. 3 We are sustained by the saints and trail our thoughts behind the truths of others. —Robert Louis Wilken, The Spirit of Early Christian Thought In these books, I commend not my own teaching but the words of the...
Originally published in Classis Volume XVI, no. 1 By Mitchell Stokes Genuine mathematical understanding is like a three-legged stool. Doing calculations or deriving theorems is only one of the legs. The other two legs are math’s history and philosophy, respectively....
Originally published in Classis Volume XIV, No. 5 By Gregory Soderberg "Out of all the sciences above named, however, the ancients, in their studies, especially selected seven to be mastered by those were to be educated. These seven they considered so to excel all...
Originally published in Classis Volume XIX, No. 4 By Phil Arant In viewing the original frontispiece from Francis Bacon’s 1620 work Novum Organum (“New Method”), the observer is intended to notice ships leaving the familiar waters of the Mediterranean and venturing...
Due to a torrential rainstorm that ripped its way through Houston, Texas, in the middle of April, 2016, my university shut its doors for two consecutive days. Not wanting to waste away my enforced leisure time, I took up two books, written thirty years apart, that had...
Originally published in Classis Volume XXVI, Number 2 Over the last decade, I have had the privilege of speaking for classical Christian schools and conferences across the country. Imagine a Jesuit school from a century ago that was fully committed to the goodness,...