Bradley G. Green
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Richard Weaver and Modern Warfare |
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Written by Brad Green
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Friday, 11 May 2012 10:08 |
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I am happy to recommend a new essay by my friend Jay Langdale, which can be found at the website of the online journal, Anamnesis. Langdale's essay is titled "“One more chance for the conservative solution”: Richard Weaver’s Traditionalist Conservative Critique of Modern Warfare."
One of the most seminal books in my own intellectual development is Richard Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences. Not as well-known, but perhaps equally helpful to me is his Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Time. I am always struck by how many persons will point to Ideas Have Consequences as the book that really made them begin to think. I know it was a game-changer in my own development. If you read either of these books and find yourself wanting to read more, I would recommend a collection of his essays: Defense of Tradition: Collected Shorter Essays of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963.
I am convinced that until contemporary conservative thought can reclaim the kind of tradition represented by folks like Richard Weaver, contemporary conservativism will be virtually meaningless and impotent. My own attempt to wrestle with the relationship between Weaver and the Christian faith can be found in my essay, "Richard Weaver, the Gospel, and the Restoration of Culture," which was published in Thriving in Babylon: Essays in Honor of A.J. Conyers.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 16 May 2012 07:29 )
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Classical Education and the Gospel |
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Written by Brad Green
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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 14:30 |
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I was asked to write a piece for The Gospel Coalition on classical education, and it is now posted at The Gospel Coalition web-site, and can be accessed here. It is a fairly brief introduction and recommendation of Christian and classical education. My piece is a recommendation for an explicitly gospel-centered, telos (goal)-centered classical education. I wrote a tad longer piece for a recent issue of Houston Baptist University's The City, which can be accessed here.
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Written by Brad Green
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Monday, 23 April 2012 16:57 |
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Daniel is my awesome son!
Here is a picture! |
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Written by Brad Green
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Monday, 23 April 2012 14:21 |
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Patrick Deneen has a good read over at Front Porch Republic on the nature of the project of reading the "Great Books". I won't spoil the read, but he makes the observation that while reading the Great Books of the western canon is a good thing, there must be some impetus for reading the Great Books beside simply reading the Great Books. In other words, there must be some sort of anthropology and idea (or theology) of history which can serve as an impetus for reading the Great Books. This is the kind of thing I was getting at in my book, The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life. Years ago, Frederick Wilhemsen made some similar observations in his Modern Age article, "The Great Books: Enemies of Wisdom" (in the Summer/Fall 1987 issue). For the essay click here. Wilhemsen's point (correct in my view) was that a Great Books program can be a good thing, but one must never forget the goal or telos of education: wisdom. One reads the Great Books as part of an overarching goal of becoming a wise person. Without the goal of wisdom, Great Books programs risk forming persons who are simply able to drop a name, or summarize a concept, but are not wise or virtuous. These persons are simply unwise and foolish name-droppers, not wise persons. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 24 April 2012 05:41 )
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Virginia Decides to Leave the Union |
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Written by Brad Green
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Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:15 |
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151 years ago, on April 15, Virginia decided to leave the Union. Here is a link to a good and informative piece which summarizes the history. In short, Virginia's legislature had wrestled with the issue. When Lincoln called for 75,000 troops to suppress those states who had seceded, and Virginia was called to contribute men to the cause, Virginia chose to leave the Union as well, and--honorably--to stand for her own constitutional liberty. The picture above is of Don Livingston's new (edited) book, Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century. Thanks for the story Doug!
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Last Updated ( Monday, 30 April 2012 10:12 )
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