2016 Workshop Talk | 1:05:01 | All Grade Levels, Literature
Summary
The great Puritan poet and Renaissance genius John Milton is consumed with the image of Truth, from his earliest poems to his final works. His prose and poetry are focused on leading the reader out of error and darkness and into the light of ultimate truth. Truth is eternal and immutable but it has been forfeit and suppressed by man since paradise was lost. Milton’s voluminous writings share the singular purpose of remaking, restoring, and rebuilding the truth in the souls of his readers, and this remaking of truth, poeialetheia, is the heartbeat of a classical Christian education.
Speaker
Grant Horner’s academic specialty is the literature, theology, and philosophy of the Renaissance and Reformation, with primary concentration in Milton, Shakespeare, Erasmus, Luther, Calvin and late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century intellectual and cultural history. His research and writing has focused on Christian humanism in the Reformation, particularly the complex relationship between developing Reformed thought and classical Graeco-Roman pagan mythology and philosophy. At Duke University he was taught and mentored by Stanley Fish, AmericaÍs leading literary theorist. He has worked on the citation of classical Greek and Latin authorities by Renaissance writers, published on theology and the arts, and is actively researching and writing a full-length work on John Milton and John Calvin. His book Meaning at the Movies on film and theology (Crossway, 2010) was an Amazon bestseller and nominated for Book of the Year in Christianity and Culture by the Book Retailers Association.
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The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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