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???????????? ???????? ?????? ?????????? ?????? ???????????????? ????????????????????. ???? ?????????????? ????????. As Classical Christian Education experiences a renewal in the West, more and more Chinese Christians are eager to participate in it—but they face a dilemma. Contemporary resources on classical Christian education almost unanimously define it as a Western tradition rooted in Western languages, Western literature, and the seven liberal arts. Does this mean that Chinese classical Christian schools must also adopt a Western curriculum? Or might they draw from their own Eastern tradition, one characterized not by men such as Plato, Herodotus, and Shakespeare but by Confucius, Sima Qian, and Li Bai? In Redeeming the Six Arts, Brent Pinkall argues that classical Christian education is not fundamentally a canon of fixed texts or subjects but rather an approach rooted in the Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother. Insofar as our ancestors differ, the languages, literature, and arts we study will also differ. Although Chinese Christians share the same “spiritual” fathers as their Western counterparts, their “earthly” fathers are different, and therefore their curriculum must reflect not only a shared “Christian” heritage but also a unique “classical” heritage. Learn more:? https://lnkd.in/gCDnm3qs

Your grandma's childhood friend dies, and you text your condolences. Your grandma replies "LOL, Grandma."? Of course she meant "Lots of love." Words matter, whether we are laughing over a generational mishap in acronym usage like "LOL," or convincing a friend of God's love for them. Rhetoric is more than learning to write an essay.? Rhetoric is the art of effective communication. Prepare for life. Cultivate rhetorical skills. https://lnkd.in/guWb-jX5

Three amazing quotes by Russell Kirk. Russell Kirk lays out the need, and hopefully the yearning for what we call "Old Western Culture" at Roman Roads Press (a term coined by C.S. Lewis). If you want to taste what he is describing, read the great books for yourself. Helping families "inherit the humanities" in their own homes is the mission of Roman Roads Press. Take the award-winning great books curriculum Old Western culture for a test drive: https://lnkd.in/gRxemTug #GreatBooks #CSLewis #OldWesternCulture #RussellKirk

Reformation Day, Mere Christianity, and Old Western Culture: See our Reformation Day email for the preface to the Reformation Reader (by Daniel Foucachon), and an excerpt from the introduction to Erasmus's Julius Excluded from Heaven (by Brad Littlejohn). AND 20% sitewide sale for Reformation Day with code Reformation20! https://lnkd.in/gAY2JXPx

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A primary-source approach. The Reformation Reader: https://lnkd.in/dxZiyZ2Y The Reformation Unit in Old Western Culture (curriculum): https://lnkd.in/d2RX3j7f

An excerpt from The Reformation Reader, Vol 12 in the Old Western Culture Great Books Reader Series, from the introduction by Dr. Brad Littlejohn to Erasmus' Julius Exclusus. No one so fully represented the reforming ferment of the early 16th century as Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus. As the foremost scholar of the new classical learning that was sweeping Europe and also a peerless wordsmith able to make full use of the powerful new medium of the printing press, Erasmus was something of a rockstar during the decade leading up to the Reformation. He traveled throughout western Europe researching, writing, and publishing, while being wined and dined by scholars and noblemen. A master satirist, he often upset the church authorities with his witty and irreverent critiques of the Pharisaism and immorality that dominated the late medieval church, most notably in his 1511 The Praise of Folly. However, Kelley Sowards writes that for Erasmus, “however comic, its [his satire’s] purpose was deadly serious: no less than the moral-religious reform of society.” Nowhere is he better at pointing out these faults with wit and rhetorical flair than in his 1517 satire Julius Excluded from Heaven (which Erasmus always studiously refused to admit writing), which narrates a conversation between the bombastic ghost of Pope Julius and the shocked St. Peter at the gates of heaven. In it, the full catalogue of Julius’s vices is laid bare, with particular focus on the needless wars he started and his shameless maneuvering in ecclesiastical politics to prevent meaningful reform of the Church and protect his own wealth and position. Erasmus also shows his sympathy to the conciliar movement by chronicling at length Julius’s successful efforts to thwart the work of the Council of Pisa and the absurdity of the pope’s claims, articulated in conflict with the conciliarists over the preceding century, to be wholly above any earthly judge and council, whatever wickedness he be guilty of. However, Erasmus also displays a deeper theological concern about the meaning of the church, one that was to resonate deeply with the Protestant Reformers, in the following lines (not appearing in this excerpt): JULIUS: What is more apostolic than to enlarge the Church of Christ? PETER: But if the Church is the Christian people, bound together by the spirit of Christ, I would say that you have subverted the Church . . . JULIUS: What we mean by the Church is sacred buildings, priests, and especially the Roman Curia. This contest—between an essentially outward and institutional conception of the church, and the church as the whole body of believers united by the Spirit—was to erupt into a full-scale Reformation, beginning just a few months after the publication of the Julius Exclusus. The Reformation Reader: https://lnkd.in/dxZiyZ2Y The Reformation Unit in Old Western Culture (curriculum): https://lnkd.in/d2RX3j7f

"People like Hawking and Dawkins are extremely influential in our society today, and we often lose Christians because of their influence. These atheists can get away with their attacks on Christianity because most of us have no way of evaluating their claims about science." – Dr. Mitch Stokes, What Does Jesus Have to do with STEM? https://lnkd.in/gNxaFNuA

Old Western Culture: The Greeks is a full-year literature and history curriculum for high school students and adults. The Epics. Greeks: The Epics covers the two great poems of Homer: The Iliad and the Odyssey. Join Wesley Callihan, a veteran teacher of the classics, as he guides the student through the world of Homer. In story-like fashion, he steers the reader through the plot, poetic devices, background, philosophy, history, and beauty of the poems, as well as how we should approach these monuments of Western culture from a Christian perspective. Drama and Lyric. The Greeks: Drama and Lyric covers the beginning of drama and some of the earliest comedies and tragedies known to the Western world. This course includes lectures on the three primary tragedians from the Ancient Greek world by Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides and also one of the most famous writers of Greek comedy, Aristophanes. The course also offers an introduction to Greek lyric poetry from the same era, including passages by Pindar, Sappho, and Quintus of Smyrna. A lecture on the minor epic poetry of Hesiod is also included as a complement to part Greeks: The Epics. The Histories. Greeks: The Histories introduces students to three of history’s most influential early historians. Students will learn about Herodotus, the “Father of History”, as they read his masterpiece, The Histories, and its inquiries into the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars. They will read and learn about Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War and its forays into the earliest expressions of political philosophy. And last they will read Xenophon’s Anabasis, the famous account which reads like a novel as it chronicles the march of ten thousand Greeks soldiers on their treacherous journey home through enemy territory. The Philosophers. Greeks: The Philosophers covers the most important works of Plato and Aristotle and introduces students to the ideas that have been wrestled with by Western Civilization for over two thousand years. The texts covered in this unit include Plato’s Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, and Republic; and Aristotle’s Metaphysics, Ethics, and Poetics. Ready to begin with The Greeks? https://lnkd.in/gv_scv8R For centuries, the study of the great books has been central to education. Old Western Culture is your guide through the great books. Overview of Old Western Culture: https://lnkd.in/gmw-x2PN Standalone readers available in both paperback and hardback. https://lnkd.in/gdHX2p9r