Jan 6, 2013 ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Teaching in an Age of Ideology: Eric Voegelin

In my last post about teaching in an age of ideology, I proposed that one needs to illuminate to students about how to live according to the true, the beautiful, and the good. Now what exactly constitutes these goods has elicited an array of different responses from some of the most prominent thinkers as teachers in this [...]

Humanism and Religion: Renewing Western Culture

By Robert M. Woods|2016-02-12T15:28:32-06:00January 6th, 2013|Categories: Books, Christian Humanism, Christianity, Robert M. Woods|

Humanism and Religion: A Call for the Renewal of Western Culture, by Jens Zimmermann, Oxford University Press, 2012. As a number of books from important thinkers (Etienne Gilson, Jeffrey Burton Russell) have sought to educate open-minded readers to a most enlightened Middle Ages, Zimmermann seeks, in part, to challenge some misinterpretations and terrible damage done to [...]