St. Augustine, Modernity, & the Recovery of True Education

By |2023-08-27T13:11:19-05:00August 27th, 2023|Categories: Bradley G. Green, Christian Humanism, Christianity, Featured, Liberal Learning, Modernity, Senior Contributors, St. Augustine, Timeless Essays|

One of the most pressing tasks for contemporary Christians is the recovery and cultivation of the inextricable link between the Christian faith and the intellectual life. In order to engage in such reflection, we should explore the relationship of Christianity and the liberal arts, and in particular seek to draw from Augustine as we reflect [...]

Richard Weaver, the Gospel, & the Restoration of Culture

By |2023-10-08T19:42:04-05:00July 31st, 2023|Categories: Bible, Bradley G. Green, Culture, Richard Weaver, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|

Richard Weaver desired to “restore culture,” and countless twentieth and twenty-first century pilgrims have been helped by his wisdom. Many have certainly moved from despair to hope (or from naïve utopianism to a more profound hopefulness) because of Weaver. But to restore “culture” means of course to restore persons. Somewhere along the way, many twentieth-century pilgrims [...]

Shapers of Christian Orthodoxy

By |2023-07-16T21:41:36-05:00July 16th, 2023|Categories: Books, Bradley G. Green, Christianity, Senior Contributors, Theology|Tags: |

Christian theology should always be returning to Scripture, be immersing itself in Scripture, and seeking to understand God and His ways and His will through attention to God’s Word. Shapers of Christian Orthodoxy: Engaging with Early and Medieval Theologians, edited by Bradley G. Green (398 pages, IVP Academic, 2010) Whether you have studied academic theology or not, [...]

C.S. Lewis as Student, Apologist, & Story-Teller

By |2023-07-05T17:40:17-05:00July 5th, 2023|Categories: Bradley G. Green, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, Liberal Learning, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|

C.S. Lewis has written that we are all—with each and every decision—becoming more heavenly or hellish creatures. There is no other option. Which of his decisions are worth emulating? “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.”[1] “We create men without chests and bid them breathe, we [...]

Political Patience and Christian Hope

By |2023-06-26T13:21:15-05:00June 25th, 2023|Categories: Bradley G. Green, Christianity, Politics, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|

It is completely possible that America has failed, although I certainly hope not. If one believes in the resurrection, one has to always believe that it is at least possible that this or that political entity can be renewed and revived, and that any political association can learn how to bow the knee to the [...]

On The Recovery of the Liberal Arts

By |2023-05-21T12:43:28-05:00May 21st, 2023|Categories: Bradley G. Green, Christendom, Liberal Arts, Liberal Learning, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|

It just may be the case that the only real and meaningfully hope of the recovery of the liberal arts lies in the recovery of the gospel itself, and in the recovery of a Christian understanding of God, man, and the world—including a recovery of what education truly is. “One ought not grow old in [...]

The Gospel & the Intellectual Life

By |2023-10-08T19:27:02-05:00May 9th, 2023|Categories: Bible, Books, Bradley G. Green, Christianity, Liberal Learning, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|Tags: |

Why is it that wherever the gospel goes the academy follows? What does the gospel have to do with the mind? I have tried—across five major themes—to delineate something of the relationship between the Christian vision of God, man, and the world and the intellectual life. The two theses I have argued are: 1.  The [...]

Rehabilitating the Liberal Arts

By |2019-09-28T09:51:45-05:00July 18th, 2013|Categories: Books, Bradley G. Green, Education, Featured, Liberal Arts, Liberal Learning, Louis Markos, StAR|

A review of Bradley G. Green’s The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life (Crossway Books, 2011) and Houston Baptist Univeristy’s new Core Curriculum I am in my 22nd year as an English professor at Houston Baptist University, and I have never been so excited! In 2011, we unveiled our new Liberal Arts [...]

Welcome to Our New Senior Contributor: Bradley G. Green

By |2016-11-04T19:18:54-05:00July 6th, 2013|Categories: Bradley G. Green, The Imaginative Conservative, W. Winston Elliott III|

The Imaginative Conservative is pleased to welcome our newest Senior Contributor, Dr. Bradley G. Green. Bradley G. Green is Associate Professor of Christian Thought and Tradition at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee. He is the co-founder of Augustine School, a classical and Christian school in Jackson, Tennessee, where he served as Head of School. [...]

Living Amidst the Ruins: The Search for Wisdom in a Post-Constitutionalist Age

By |2023-06-10T10:31:37-05:00September 12th, 2012|Categories: American Republic, Bradley G. Green, Christianity, Constitution, Politics, Senior Contributors|

At the level of political theory and commitment to the Constitution, both modern American parties are both thoroughly statist, and are thoroughly committed to a revolutionary and illegal concentration and use of power. It will take a lot of hard work and reading for Christians—and everyone else—to come to terms with how this situation came [...]

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