Beauty for Truth's Sake: On the Re-enchantment of Education

Based in the riches of Christian worship and tradition, this brief, eloquently written introduction to Christian thinking and worldview helps readers put back together again faith and reason, truth and beauty, and the fragmented academic disciplines. By reclaiming the classic liberal arts and viewing disciplines such as science and mathematics through a poetic lens, the author explains that unity is present within diversity. Now repackaged with a new foreword by Ken Myers, this book will continue to benefit parents, homeschoolers, lifelong learners, Christian students, and readers interested in the history of ideas.
Contents
Foreword by Ken Myers
Introduction: “To Sing with the Universe”
1. The Tradition of the Four Ways
The Great Tradition
Adapting the Medieval Model
Beauty for Truth’s Sake
Beauty on the Cross
2. Educating the Poetic Imagination
“A Beauty which Defies Time”Rediscovering Poetic Knowledge
The Symbolic Cosmos
A Key to Ancient Mysteries
3. The Lost Wisdom of the World
Sacred Number
Beyond Pythagoras
Irrational Beauty
Phi and the Natural Numbers
Symmetry
4. The Golden Circle
A Journey into God
Theology of the Trinity
In Search of the Logos
Geometry as Prophecy
The Golden Circle
5. “Quiring to the Young-Eyed Cherubims”
Good Vibrations
Humane Architecture
At Home in the Cosmos
Secrets of the Sky
The End of the Road
6. The Liturgical Consummation of Cosmology
The Construction of Modernity
A Sense of the Sacred
Liturgy as Remembering to Give
An Education in Beauty
The Holy City
Conclusion: Beyond Faith and Reason
Bibliography
Index