Teaching in an Age of Ideology
What does it mean to teach in an age of ideology? At first glance, especially for conservatives, the answer appears to be obvious: to advocate for conservative…
Culture and Education in Josef Pieper’s Thought
Josef Pieper is best known in this country for his work, Leisure as the Basis of Culture, and its companion essay, The Philosophical Act, published as one…
Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the Canadian Regime: Past Principles and Present Challenges
Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the Canadian Regime: Past Principles and Present Challenges. David W. Livingstone, ed.. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. Every few…
Liberal Democracy and Mormon Culture
Mormon Scholarship The obstacles confronting one to write about Mormon culture, specifically its religion and its relationship to liberal democracy are enormous: the conceptualization of liberal democracy…
Cornel West
Prominent American scholar and public intellectual, West is best known for his works on race, religion, and politics in America. An American Book Award recipient, West serves…
Norman Mattoon Thomas
A former Presbyterian pastor, Norman Thomas was a leading public activist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party. His convictions were influenced by the Social…
Martin E. Marty
Minister, professor, administrator, and editor but probably best known as a cultural historian of modern Christianity, Martin has examined the intersection of religion and politics in America…
The Protestant Revolution in Theology, Law, and Community
The Protestant Reformation has been cited by scholars of European history as contributing to the rise of nationalism, individualism, capitalism, and secularism but not to the development…
From the Multiversity Cave: Conclusion
In this series of posts, we have reviewed what some prominent thinkers have taught us about today multiversity: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas presented us a new…
From the Multiversity Cave: The Students and the State
One of the recent movements in American education has been to make schools student-centered, whether from Montessori pre-schools to institutions of higher education: the values of independence,…
From the Multiversity Cave: General Education
One of the present paradigms of the multiversity has been informed by mathematics and the natural sciences where methodology, standardization, and replicable data are the principles to…
From the Multiversity Cave: The Universal Sciences
In the previous essay I examined how Renaissance Humanism and the religious reformations can contribute to improving the multiversity as an institution that promotes the public good…
From the Multiversity: Three Reformations
In the past essays I have spoken about one of the obstacles that today’s multiversity confronts: the creation of the conditions of genuine learning. The vast creation…
From the Multiversity: The New Paradigm
What I have been proposing so far has been a paradigm for the multiversity to adopt for its students, faculty, and administrators: to pursue truth instead of…
From the Multiversity Cave: Aquinas and Synthesis
Thus far we have looked at three prominent thinkers who have offered us some ways to reform the multiversity so it can become an institution that pursues…