I have to give a presentation to some grade school teachers soon on “why classical Ed.” I’m totally swiping some of this - giving credit of course. Great summary.
Greeks - art, drama, Philosophy - strength and intelligence - Achilles Romans - ordered government, roads, architecture - order and piety - Law - external order vs internal order of the soul Hebrews - God - faith and obedience - Abraham - hero of faith Church Fathers - Western Civilization
I grew up listening to stories about Jerusalem and it’s changing social seasons, changing but perhaps not isolated turns in a series but rather groups turning around a great convergence like beautiful machine learning clusters wrapped up in colourful elements. Leaking into each other but being of a different set, until they are not anymore.
I think of Athens and Rome as aligned. Jerusalem is the outlier (both Jewish and Christian cultures). Christians brought Jewish culture to Greek and Roman lands.
Acts 17 19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. 23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. 24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; 26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: 28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. 29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. 30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: 31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
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I have to give a presentation to some grade school teachers soon on “why classical Ed.” I’m totally swiping some of this - giving credit of course. Great summary.
Greeks - art, drama, Philosophy - strength and intelligence - Achilles
Romans - ordered government, roads, architecture - order and piety - Law - external order vs internal order of the soul
Hebrews - God - faith and obedience - Abraham - hero of faith
Church Fathers - Western Civilization
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I grew up listening to stories about Jerusalem and it’s changing social seasons, changing but perhaps not isolated turns in a series but rather groups turning around a great convergence like beautiful machine learning clusters wrapped up in colourful elements. Leaking into each other but being of a different set, until they are not anymore.
That's very well put
Really good insight
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I think of Athens and Rome as aligned. Jerusalem is the outlier (both Jewish and Christian cultures). Christians brought Jewish culture to Greek and Roman lands.
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Acts 17
19 And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
21 (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
22 Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
31 Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.