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Passing the torch : an apology for classical Christian education / Louis Markos.
LIBRA BV1465 .M295 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Markos, Louis, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Classical education--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Classical education.
- Christian education--Philosophy.
- Christian education.
- Holistic education--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Holistic education.
- Education, Humanistic--Philosophy.
- Education, Humanistic.
- Spiritual formation.
- classics (discipline).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 220 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Apology for classical Christian education
- Place of Publication:
- Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "Louis Markos takes a stand in today's debates around the purpose and meaning of education. Drawing from the pre-Christian, Christian and post-Christian classics of the Western literary and intellectual tradition, Markos urges us to remember the primary aim of education: to form virtuous, morally self-regulating citizens. He gleans insights on the nature of education from a wide array of figures, including Plato and Augustine, Rousseau and John Dewey, Dorothy Sayers, and C. S. Lewis. What arise from his wide yet focused reading of the classical West is an argument for the virtue and necessity of Christian classical education." -- Publisher, page four of cover.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The nature of man
- Part 1. The nature of education.
- Liberal arts versus vocational
- Canonical versus ideological
- Books versus textbooks
- History versus social studies
- Humanities versus social sciences
- Goodness, truth, and beauty versus relativism
- Virtues versus values
- Part 2. The nature of the debate.
- Plato's Republic : the educational journey of the philosopher king
- Augustine's De docrina christiana : learning to think rightly
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile : the pedagogical implications of denying original sin
- John dewy's Democracy and education : the birth of progressive-pragmatic education
- C. S. Lewis's The aboition of man : building students' chests
- Dorothy Sayers and Charlotte Mason : how best to train the young
- Mortimer Adler, E. D. hirsch, and Neil POstman : how to educate Americans
- Conclusion: From a philosophy of life to a theory of education
- Bibliographical essay.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Markos, Louis. Passing the torch
- ISBN:
- 9781514011300
- 1514011301
- OCLC:
- 1452587540
- Publisher Number:
- 90101563061
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