2016 Workshop Talk | 57:57:00 | 7-12, All Grade Levels, Literature, Rhetoric & Composition
Summary
This talk is based on Professor Horner’s published works on the theory of the origins of culture and the suppression of truth. The ancient pedagogical technique of Socratic dialogue is actually linked theologically to Romans 1 and the concept of the deliberate (but futile) forgetting of truth in fallen mankind. We will start off theoretically and move to consider the practical, effective, and theologically grounded application of Socratic dialogue for Christian teachers.
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.
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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