2016 Workshop Talk | 1:44:33 | All Grade Levels, General Classroom
Summary
“Every real thing is a joy, if only you have eyes and ears to relish it, a nose and tongue to taste it.” Robert Farrar Capon’s words betray a significant flaw in our teaching. All too often, we teach our students to view life through an intellectualist paradigm, one that sees the world as a set of ideas and concepts while inadvertently overlooking the deeply aesthetic and embodied nature of our social and cultural practices. In so doing, we fail to share with our students the transfiguration of the whole of life in Christ. This workshop will explore the fostering of a theopoetic imagination, which involves awakening students to the enrichment of human life in Christ by encountering the theological exuberance of art, music, architecture, literature, poetry, and of course, food. The goal is to provide an educational experience that sanctifies their senses and consecrates their imaginations to a more Eden-like state, an invitation to taste and see.
Speaker
Stephen Richard Turley (PhD, Durham University) is a theologian, social theorist, classical Christian educator, and prize-winning classical guitarist. He is the author of The Ritualised Revelation of the Messianic Age: Washings and Meals in Galatians and 1 Corinthians, and Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Steve blogs on the church, society and culture, education, and the arts at TurleyTalks. com. He is a faculty member at Tall Oaks Classical School in New Castle, DE, where he teaches theology, Greek, and rhetoric, and is a professor of fine arts at Eastern University. Steve lectures at universities, conferences, and churches throughout the U.S. and abroad. His research and writings have appeared in such journals as Christianity and Literature, Calvin Theological Journal, First Things, Touchstone, and the Chesterton Review. He and his wife, Akiko, have four children and live in Newark, DE.
Additional Materials
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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