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Christian Education in Seven Books (4) – Poetic Knowledge

The subtitle of James Taylor’s Poetic Knowledge is “The Recovery of Education”. Taylor’s book is…

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Christian Education in Seven Books (3) – How to Read a Book

When I prescribe How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler to my seminary students,…

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Christian Education in Seven Books (2) – Less Than Words Can Say

“For we let our young men and women go out unarmed, in a day when…

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Christian Education in Seven Books (1) – The Abolition of Man

The Abolition of Man is perhaps not a book you’d pick up were you shopping…

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Christian Education in Seven Books (Intro)

The first time the English word education pops up is sometime in the 15th century.…

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15. Beauty’s Difficulties: The Problem of Taste

David de Bruyn

August 25, 2020

After more than a century of grappling with Descartes’ division of knowledge into “subjective” and…

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Taste and Preference: A Last Word

David de Bruyn

February 11, 2020

Why are there such different “tastes” among people? Is the debate over music in worship…

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Taste Formed and Deformed by Culture

David de Bruyn

February 4, 2020

Taste is never shaped in isolation. We learn to love what we love from our…

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Taste Spoiled By Sweetness

David de Bruyn

January 28, 2020

A discussion of taste is one of the most difficult (and unrewarding) ones to have,…

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Preferences and Adiaphora

David de Bruyn

October 25, 2019

God reveals His will in Scripture in three ways. The first is by explicit command…

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