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Beauty for Truth's Sake: The Re-Enchantment of Education

10 best books like Beauty for Truth's Sake: The Re-Enchantment of Education (Stratford Caldecott): Mathematics: Is God Silent?, The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education, Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning, Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education, Leisure: The Basis of Culture, The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being, Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child, Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin, The Idea of a University

Mathematics: Is God Silent?
AuthorJames Nickel
This book revolutionizes the prevailing understanding and teaching of math. The addition of this book is a must for all upper-level Christian school curricula and for college students and adults interested in math or related fields of science and religion. It will serve as a solid refutation for the...
The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education
AuthorLeigh A. Bortins
In the past, correct spelling, the multiplication tables, the names of the state capitals and the American presidents were basics that all children were taught in school. Today, many children graduate without this essential knowledge. Most curricula today follow a haphazard sampling of topics...
Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning
AuthorDouglas Wilson
ISBN0891075836
Public education in America has run into hard times. Even many within the system admit that it is failing. While many factors contribute, Douglas Wilson lays much blame on the idea that education can take place in a moral vacuum. It is not possible for education to be nonreligious, deliberately excluding...
Poetic Knowledge: The Recovery of Education
AuthorJames S. Taylor
ISBN0791435865
This book rediscovers a traditional mode of knowledge that remains viable today. Contrasted to the academic and cultural fads often based on the scientific methodology of the Cartesian legacy, or any number of trendy experiments in education, Poetic Knowledge returns to the freshness and importance...
Leisure: The Basis of Culture
AuthorJosef Pieper
ISBN1890318353
One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure: the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared fifty years ago. Pieper shows that the Greeks understood and valued leisure, as did the medieval...
The Great Tradition: Classic Readings on What it Means to Be an Educated Human Being
AuthorRichard Gamble
ISBN1933859253
Frustrated with the continuing educational crisis of our time, concerned parents, teachers, and students sense that true reform requires more than innovative classroom technology, standardized tests, or skills training. An older tradition—the Great Tradition—of education in the West...
Wisdom and Eloquence: A Christian Paradigm for Classical Learning
AuthorRobert Littlejohn
ISBN1581345526
An excellent introduction to the ideas behind classical Christian education, Wisdom and Eloquence goes a step further, reexamining the presuppositions with which that contemporary classical educators practice. Littlejohn particularly hones in on what Douglas Wilson and ACCS call the "Sayers...
Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child
AuthorAnthony M. Esolen
ISBN1935191888
I tend to enjoy most books I read (easily entertained, I guess), but don't let my low book standards detract from my statement that this is one of the best books I've ever read. While it appears to be a book on child-raising (and sort of is), I'd recommend it to anyone, parent or not. The author is clearly brilliant,...
Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin
AuthorTracy Lee Simmons
ISBN1882926730
Discussions of educational reform often involve windy talk of a "return to the classics," yet rarely do would-be reformers go so far as to advocate a return to education in the classical languages themselves. That is a program that strikes even the most stalwart critics of contemporary educational...
The Idea of a University
AuthorJohn Henry Newman
ISBN0268011508
All the while I was listening to, reading along with, and contemplating Newman’s The Idea of a University I’ve been fighting this overwhelming sense of inadequacy. I can’t remember when I’ve encountered an author who’s challenged me so. While an excellent discipline and one to which I do...
Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education
AuthorDavid V. Hicks
ISBN0761814671
A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is concerned with the development of style and conscience,...
The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education
AuthorKevin Clark
This new booklet introduces readers to a paradigm for understanding classical education that transcends the familiar three-stage pattern of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Instead, this booklet describes the liberal arts as a central part of a larger and more robust paradigm of classical education...
The Seven Laws of Teaching
AuthorJohn Milton Gregory
ISBN0801064961
The Seven Laws of Teaching wonderfully summarizes timeless basic principles of teaching and learning. There is a great deal of wisdom and food for thought in this slim volume and I’d commend it to any teacher. At first, the laws seemed simple, but Gregory takes the observable, fundamental elements...
The Life of the Mind: On the Joys and Travails of Thinking
AuthorJames V. Schall
ISBN1932236899
In The Life of the Mind, Georgetown University’s James V. Schall takes up the task of reminding us that, as human beings, we naturally take a special delight and pleasure in simply knowing. Because we have not only bodies but also minds, we are built to know what is. In this volume, Schall, author of On...
The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
AuthorDavid Bentley Hart
The Beauty of the Infinite is a splendid extended essay in "theological aesthetics." David Bentley Hart here meditates on the power of a Christian understanding of beauty and sublimity to rise above the violence -- both philosophical and literal -- characteristic of the postmodern world.

The...
Beauty Will Save the World: Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age
AuthorGregory Wolfe
ISBN1933859881
Culture, Not Politics.

We live in a politicized time. Culture wars and increasingly partisan conflicts have reduced public discourse to shouting matches between ideologues. But rather than merely bemoaning the vulgarity and sloganeering of this era, says acclaimed author and editor...
Books That Build Character: A Guide to Teaching Your Child Moral Values Through Stories
AuthorWilliam Kilpatrick
ISBN0671884239
Here is a family guide to classic novels, contemporary fiction, myths and legends, science fiction and fantasy, folktales, Bible stories, picture books, biographies, holiday stories, and many other books that celebrate virtues and values.
There are more than 300 titles to choose from, each...
Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination
AuthorVigen Guroian
ISBN0195117875
Guroian illuminates the complex ways in which fairy tales and fantasies educate the moral imagination from earliest childhood. Examining a wide range of stories - from Pinocchio and The Little Mermaid to Charlotte's Web, The Velveteen Rabbit, The Wind in the Willows, and the Narnia Chronicles - he...
Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
AuthorJames K.A. Smith
ISBN0801035775
Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our thoughts and affections. Humans–as Augustine noted–are "desiring agents," full of longings and passions; in brief, we are what we love.

James K. A. Smith focuses on the themes of liturgy...
Art for God's Sake: A Call to Recover the Arts
AuthorPhilip Graham Ryken
ISBN1596380071
The creation sings to us with the visual beauty of God's handiwork. But what of man-made art? Much of it is devoid of sacred beauty and is often rejected by Christians.
Christian artists struggle to find acceptance within the church.

Encourages Christian artists in the pursuit of their...
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