2016 Workshop Talk | 1:02:10 | All Grade Levels, General Classroom
Summary
Building on Longinus’s classical theory of the sublime in nature and art as “that which transports us out of ourselves,” I will make a case that this kind of exceptional and disorienting experience of beauty, awe, terror, and the infinite is actually a quintessentially theological experience„one that, when handled properly, will set the classroom (and the students’ souls) on fire for truth, goodness, and beauty.
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, Americas leading literary theorist. H Horner was named ñProfessor of the Yearî in 2001 and 2007, and he holds an appointment as visiting professor of Latin at Fuller Seminary. He has taught at the University of Alabama and UNC-Chapel Hill, and was appointed Hudson Strode Scholar in Renaissance Studies (1994_96) at UA. He teaches art history in Italy several times a year in Florence and Venice.
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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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