Announcing a novel book

BEAUTY IN THE WORD, published past times Angelico Press (see Facebook page for this book), offers a novel Catholic philosophy of education, completing the retrieval of the vii liberal arts begun inwards Beauty for Truth's Sake past times examining the linguistic communication arts, the "Trivium", which Dorothy L. Sayers made the footing of Classical Education inwards her famous essay, "The Lost Tools of Learning". But this mass tries to move farther than Sayers. Order from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.

New opportunities for schoolhouse reform as well as the creation of novel schools encourage radical thinking most education. We involve a philosophy that tin sack withdraw us equally nosotros institute these novel schools, or enrich as well as improve existing schools, or endeavour to pattern a curriculum for teaching our children at home. Catholic educators are peculiarly concerned alongside the enquiry of what constitutes a "Catholic ethos."

The curriculum has larn fragmented as well as incoherent because nosotros convey lost whatever feel of how all cognition fits together. What sort of education, based on what agreement of the human person, would enable a kid to progress inwards the rational agreement of the reason without losing a feel of the whole, or a feel of the sacred? We must brand an travail to overcome inwards ourselves simulated ideas inculcated past times the teaching that nosotros ourselves received, earlier nosotros tin sack empathise the elements that would brand a ameliorate teaching possible for our children.

Reviews:

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Englewood Review of Books
First Things
The Tablet
Circe Institute
Faith Magazine (Eric Hester)
Imaginative Conservative

MORE ABOUT THE BOOK:
Interview

The Question of Purpose

Evangelizing an Anti-Intellectual Culture

Theme 1: The Trivium

Theme 2: The Transcendentals

Theme 3: The Spiral Curriculum
Theme 4: Mother of the Liberal Arts
Mars Hill Audio interview

FURTHER THOUGHTS
Ethos of a Catholic School
Language of Faith 1
Language of Faith 2
Remembering the Present

Here are around comments on the book:

J. Fraser Field (CERC): "Speaking equally a old Catholic teacher, this mass has been a revelation to me. I wishing I had read it earlier embarking on my teaching career. Beauty inwards the Word should hold upwards required reading for anyone aspiring to learn inwards a Catholic schoolhouse equally it should for anyone considering teaching their children at home."

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James V. Schall SJ: "Everyone recognizes the centrality of education, of introducing what is known to the 1 capable of knowing. What is oftentimes lacking is around feel of the whole, of around orderly agency to holler back most the whole. It is non that nosotros create non convey a tradition that looks later the basic things as well as their order. It is that nosotros convey replaced what nosotros involve to know alongside a methodology that is based on a narrow concept of what constitutes knowing. In this insightful book, Stratford Caldecott has presented a agency to empathise teaching inwards a feel that includes philosophy, theology, the arts, literature, the studies of beauty as well as truth as well as what is good. It is a rare mass that understands the unity of cognition as well as what nosotros desire to know. This is 1 of those rare books."

Aidan Nichols OP: “Beauty inwards the Word is the fruit of a lifetime's thinking most the relation betwixt organized faith as well as life past times a cultural entrepreneur who is also a raise as well as knows what, educationally, tin sack truly work. Most Catholic teaching has been confined non entirely externally, past times State regulation, but also internally, owing to an inadequate philosophy of the human beingness inwards the total (and I hateful full!) make of his or her capacities as well as needs. Now that successive governments inwards the Great Britain convey freed upwards the institutional constraints, those responsible for novel initiatives inwards Catholic schooling convey a peril to recreate the inner spirit of teaching as well as non merely its outer frame. They volition non easily abide by a programme to a greater extent than inspirational than the 1 presented here.”

Anthony Esolen describes the book's role equally laying the foundations of "an teaching that penetrates the pump as well as the heed alongside light." The Trivium represents the rootage or foundational phase of the liberal arts, understood broadly equally an teaching for freedom. It gives us grounding for greater liberty as well as responsibleness inwards 3 ways; that is, past times developing our might to imagine, think, as well as communicate. The kid needs to grow inwards these 3 dimensions to hold upwards fully integrated alongside society. If whatever of the 3 are lacking he or she volition hold upwards cutting off from social club as well as larn an isolated as well as rather lonely particle, frenetic or depressed; 1 lost fragment of a broken puzzle.

In educational wisdom, the traditional "arts of language" (Grammar, Dialectics, as well as Rhetoric) convey a key role to play.To regain this role, nosotros involve to penetrate into the deeper pregnant of the "three ways" (trivium = "place where 3 roads meet"). As Anthony Esolen says, these reverberate the 3 main axes of Being: "of knowing, that is to tell giving; of beingness known, that is to tell receiving; as well as of the loving gift." I convey referred to them nether the headings of Remembering, Thinking, as well as Speaking, corresponding to Mythos, Logos, and Ethos. John Paul II described "the incandescent centre" of all educational activeness equally "co-operating inwards the uncovering of the truthful icon which God’s beloved has impressed indelibly upon every person, as well as which is preserved inwards the mystery of his ain love." The whole educational procedure comes reaches its consummation inwards the liturgical act, the human activeness of worship.

This all sounds real theoretical, no dubiety – as well as then it is, inwards the original feel of theoria as "contemplation". But I convey tried to demo that it tin sack hold upwards eminently practical equally well, past times showing how these ideas tin sack hold upwards used to build a curriculum. I advert inwards passing to the St Jerome Academy in Hyattsville, Maryland, whose "Educational Plan" (available online) has a real like inspiration. Sequels to Beauty inwards the Word will include practical resources for parents as well as teachers, as well as nosotros are looking for collaborators as well as advisers to bring together our working grouping inwards the coming months.

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