Renewing the mind : a reader in the philosophy of Catholic education / edited by Ryan N.S. Topping ; foreword by Don J. Briel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Topping, Ryan N. S. (Ryan Nathan Scott), 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Education--Philosophy.

Catholic Church.

Christian education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (422 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The Catholic University of America Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Renewing the Mind includes an introductory essay on the history and renewal of Catholic education, followed by 38 selections each with an introduction, biography, and study questions; adorning the text throughout are illustrations from the National Gallery of Art.

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Foreword (Don J. Briel); Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The Aims of Education; 1. Plato from The Republic; 2. Artistotle from On the Parts of Animals; 3. Quintilian from The Institutes of Oratory; 4. St. Augustine from On Christian Teaching; 5. St. Thomas Aquinas from Summa Contra Gentiles; 6. Thomas à Kempis from The Imitation of Christ; 7. H. S. Gerdil from The Anti-Emile; 8. Bl. John Henry Newsman from The Idea of a University; 9. St. John Paul II from On Faith and Reason; Part II: The Matter of Learning; 10. Plato from The Republic

11. St. Basil the Great from Address to Young Men on the Reading of Greek Literature12. Hugh of St. Victor from Didascalicon; 13. St. Bonaventure from Reduction of the Arts to Theology; 14. St. Thomas Aquinas from Summa Theologiae; 15. Bl. John Henry Newman from The Idea of a University; 16. Jacques Maritain from the Education at the Crossroads; Part III: The Methods of Teaching; 17. Plato from Meno; 18. St. Augustine from On Christian Teaching; 19. St. Thomas Aquinas from Summa Theologiae; 20. Erasmus of Rotterdam from On the Method of Study, to Christianus of Lubeck

21. Michel De Montaigne from Of the Education of Children22. The Society of Jesus from Ratio Studiorum; 23. H. S. Gerdil from The Anti-Emile; 24. Maria Montessori from The Montessori Method; 25. A. G. Sertillanges from On the Intellectual Life; Part IV: On Renewal in Our Time; 26. Leo XIII from On the Restoration of Christian Philosophy; 27. G. K. Chesterton from Orthodoxy; 28. Ronald Knox from On Christian Education; 29. C. S. Lewis from Learning in War-Time; 30. Dorothy Sayers from The Lost Tools of Learning; 31. Christopher Dawson from Crisis in Western Education

32. St. John XXIII from On the Study of Latin33. John Senior from The Restoration of Christian Culture; 34. St. John Paul II from On the Role of the Christian Family; 35. Laura M. Berquist from Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum; 36. Michael D. O'Brien from A Landscape with Dragons; 37. Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB from The Holy See's Teaching on Catholic Schools; 38. Benedict XVI from Meeting with Catholic Educators; Sources and Permissions; Notes

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-8132-2732-1

OCLC:

921888816