From Reading Augustine On Education Formation, Citizenship, and the Lost Purpose of Learning by Joseph Clair "Ordered love within the context of liberal arts education moves in three directions. First is the inward ordering of the soul that happens as one acquires the moral and intellectual virtues necessary for disciplined study. Second is the upward … Continue reading Education and the Order of Love
Category: Commonplace Book
a miscellany of other people’s thoughts throughout the ages
The Commonplace Book is a specific kind of literary journal-meets-scrapbook. It's a place to record and remember those passages that you've highlighted in your favorite books, thinking "this is good, I'll want to return to this someday." The Commonplace Book is a method for compiling what the ancient rhetors called a copia. The word copia … Continue reading The Commonplace Book
"Faith is, as St. Augustine teaches, born of will, not compulsion. A person can only be attracted into Christianity: he can never be forced. If a person is forced to be baptized, it is useless for engendering true faith, except in a baby. An adult must be able to answer personally for his own beliefs … Continue reading Alcuin to Charlemagne: Speaking Truth to Power
It is said in the Gospel: 'In your patience you shall possess your souls' (Luke 21.19). In all human life patience is very necessary: for we have to suffer patiently the injuries inflicted upon us by others, and the tribulations that come our way. Very often in this passing age the good have to endure … Continue reading Alcuin on Patience