Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness & Beauty (Classical Education Guide) - Softcover

Steve Turley PhD

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1600512658 ISBN 13: 9781600512650

Publisher: Classical Academic Press, 2015

Synopsis

In his masterful work, The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis observed how modern education was changing our conception of what it means to be human. By cutting off students from the transcendent values of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, modern schools ceased cultivating virtue in students and instead communicated a mechanistic vision of the world that viewed students as products to be engineered. Lewis believed that in seeking to control nature, modern conditioners would also seek to control humans and remake them according to the preference of the conditioners, since any appeal to Truth, Goodness, or Beauty had been rejected. Lewis argued that we must recover these transcendent values in order to prevent the dehumanizing tendency in modern education and renew the cultivation of virtue in our students.
With Awakening Wonder, Steve Turley demonstrates that it is precisely such a recovery that is at the heart of the current classical education renewal. Once again, Truth, Goodness, and Beauty are celebrated as those objective values that are essential for cultivating students as flourishing human beings. In these pages you will discover the history and development of these transcendent values and how they redeem our senses and sanctify our imaginations. Teachers will also learn how to incorporate these values into their teaching to awaken awe and wonder in both themselves and their students.

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About the Author

Steve Turley (PhD, Durham University) is a theologian, social theorist, classical Christian educator, and prize-winning classical guitarist. A faculty member at Tall Oaks Classical School in New Castle, Delaware, he teaches theology, Greek, and rhetoric. He is also Professor of Fine Arts at Eastern University. His research and writings have appeared in such journals as Christianity and Literature, Calvin Theological Journal, First Things, Touchstone, and The Chesterton Review.

Edition details

• Publisher: Classical Academic Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1600512658
• ISBN 13: 9781600512650
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: David Diener PhD