This follows up from the more sprawling “sketch for a seminar on Christian humanism.” We seem to be getting close here:
- Prologue: marks of the current crisis
- Classical origins: virtues – character and education for citizenship: What is human excellence?
- Patristic phase: anthropology – Incarnation, soteriology (theosis): How does God prepare us for full human flourishing?
- Medieval phase: the sectors – education, sciences, arts, and healthcare: How can reason and tradition help us foster flourishing in response to God?
- Early modern phase: common good – vocation, the family, the polis, the markets, and secularization: What values will guide our life together?
- 19th & early 20th century: anti-humanisms – the fruits of secularization: What are we without God? (the “abolition of man”)
- The post-WW II phase: the humanities – literature, “great books,” beauty: How can we reclaim our common humanity and train our imaginations & affections?
- Epilogue: lessons for the current crisis and a closing look at inter-traditional dialogue in a postsecular age
Now we have to ask (1) do these pieces work well together? (coherent whole? logical flow? right size?), (2) would this framing serve faculty seminar participants well? and (3) what readings would support each unit?
Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians
Grateful to the dead 