“For example, some readers might be wondering if a worldview can have a number assigned to it. Isn’t this a bit like saying a student has ten pounds of poetic ability or five yards of charm?” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 101).
Turn It Up
“The later critics of modernity, Rousseau and Nietzsche, accepting the priority of passion but also seeing a need to reinvigorate it, resurrect the power of music, aiming to use it to inflame the passions and silence reason in the service of a new, more noble politics” [Carson Holloway, All Shook Up: Music, Passion, and Politics …
Vain Janglings
“I say, rightly ordered and managed, for often the pretext of Christian fellowship is abused to the hatching and propagating of the most absurd opinions, when people turn light and frothy, taking up their time with vain janglings, and diverting from the main scope, to wit, edification” (Durham, p. 215).
A Tulip From Calvin’s Garden
The last chapter of Waters’ book gives him an opportunity to wrap up. But although I will interact with some elements of this chapter, I am not going to wrap up, not just yet anyhow. Nossir. I am going to go through the footnotes too. First, Waters charges me with a “misuse of logic.” Were …
Some Gets In
“Since we are not withdrawing to the wilderness to establish Hermitage Christian School, we must continue to deal with the world around us as we seek to establish biblical education. And because the world around us resembles a particularly persistent and thick fog, some of it gets in” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. …
Are Rock and Blues Cousins?
“Thus, despite rock’s claim to have arisen from the blues, its character differs decisively from that of the older and, to Pattison’s mind, less vulgar genre. While rock deals with may of the same themes as the blues, sex and alcohol prominent among them, it approaches them with a ‘passionate intensity’ that naturally follows from …
Another Corollary of Unity
“For seeing the church is one city, and one lump, a little fire may hazard all, and a little leaven corrupt all, and unwatchfulness at one part, or post, may let in enemies to destroy all” (Durham, p. 166).
Washington”s Faith
Trinty Fest is just next week, and we are gearing up. In this event, the “major party” aspect exists in creative tension with the “history lectures” component. The talks this year will be addressing what secularism has done to the U.S. Constitution. Under the rallying cry that the Constitution is a “living document,” the secularists …
Confessional Laxity Over At Mississippi Valley
In my previous Auburn Avenue post, in the comments section Mark Horne supplied the following quotation from Turretin. The emphases are Mark’s, and Turretin was da bomb. “The question is not whether faith alone justifies to the exclusion either of the grace of God or the righteousness of Christ or the word AND SACRAMENTS (BY …
There We Are
“It would be nice indeed if worldview problems could be solved by just crossing the street and opening up a new school, one that is all fresh and clean. But the difficulty is that we track stuff in with us. Wherever we go, there we are” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 101).