The foundation for the humanities is preaching and synagoguery. Take away the gospel and you have some metaphysics, but no reason for literature and history. You still have the stories people like to tell but no Keystone keeps it altogether.
Tag: history
Providing Clarity by Muddying the Waters
I think I can see why this guy never uses the term “Calvinism.” He has successfully proved that if you take in the life experiences of everyone who ever lived from 1550 onward, the term has essentially no meaning. I think my eyes glazed over when he demonstrated that neo-Calvinism must refer specifically to only people who agree with Abraham Kuyper. And there’s a reason why we can’t use the term Kuyperian?
Something missing
A Classical Education designer talks about the classical approach to math and science. It seems like he’s missing something, though, because his theories on teaching it better sound an awful lot like what I’ve heard about the Common Core Curriculum – prioritizing the idea over the execution. I think it’s because he forgets the magic word – Trivium!
Or it may just be that he’s forgetting that most of science is actually history, the same way that most of music composition is actually piano practice.
Was the Apostle Paul Married? | Denny Burk
Was the Apostle Paul Married? | Denny Burk.
This goes nicely with records from the early church fathers who say directly that Paul had been married.
Selgin on Mellon, Harding, and Hoover.
More revisionist history?