Description
Reading Augustine presents concise, personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religion scholars.
The looming crisis in higher education appears to be a matter of soaring costs and crushing student debt, but the problem is actually much deeper. It is a crisis of soul; a question of the very purpose of learning and the type of people that our educational system produces. Today, in the age of academic hyper-specialization and professional knowledge, the moral and spiritual purposes of learning have been eclipsed by a shallow view of career and success. On Education, Formation, Citizenship, and the Lost Purpose of Learningturns to the influential figure Augustine of Hippo to explore how he saved the liberal arts at the end of the Roman Empire and how his inspiring vision can do the same for higher education today. It offers a roadmap for reviving the soul of education - presenting concrete ways that the intellectual practices and economic enterprise of learning can lead once more to a fulfilled life of knowing God and loving others.
Author: Joseph Clair
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: 11/30/2017
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781501326165
ISBN10: 1501326163
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Religious
- Religion | Christian Theology | General
- Religion | Education
The looming crisis in higher education appears to be a matter of soaring costs and crushing student debt, but the problem is actually much deeper. It is a crisis of soul; a question of the very purpose of learning and the type of people that our educational system produces. Today, in the age of academic hyper-specialization and professional knowledge, the moral and spiritual purposes of learning have been eclipsed by a shallow view of career and success. On Education, Formation, Citizenship, and the Lost Purpose of Learningturns to the influential figure Augustine of Hippo to explore how he saved the liberal arts at the end of the Roman Empire and how his inspiring vision can do the same for higher education today. It offers a roadmap for reviving the soul of education - presenting concrete ways that the intellectual practices and economic enterprise of learning can lead once more to a fulfilled life of knowing God and loving others.
Author: Joseph Clair
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: 11/30/2017
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN13: 9781501326165
ISBN10: 1501326163
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Religious
- Religion | Christian Theology | General
- Religion | Education
About the Author
Joseph Clair is Director of the William Penn Honors Program and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at George Fox University, USA. He is the author of Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine (2016).