{"id":687,"date":"2016-08-05T19:42:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T02:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/product\/john-milton-classical-learning-and-the-progress-of-virtue\/"},"modified":"2022-02-19T11:10:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T19:10:34","slug":"john-milton-classical-learning-and-the-progress-of-virtue","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/product\/john-milton-classical-learning-and-the-progress-of-virtue\/","title":{"rendered":"John Milton: Classical Learning and the Progress of Virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.classicalacademicpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/John-Milton-Sample.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sample<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Puritan poet John Milton is most famous for his massive theological epic <em>Paradise Lost<\/em>. He was also known as perhaps the greatest genius of the English Renaissance\u2014possibly the best-educated man of his day\u2014and also a major theorist of classical learning for Christians. The man who wrote the seminal words \u201cThe end then of Learning is to repair the ruines of our first Parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him . . .\u201d (<em>Of Education<\/em>, 1644) argues across all his voluminous writings that the purpose of education is soul work for virtue as opposed to information gathering for profit.<\/p>\n<p>In this book, Milton scholar Professor Grant Horner from The Master\u2019s College examines the poet\u2019s powerful vision of a Christian and classical education. Trained at Duke University by Stanley Fish, the world\u2019s most influential Miltonist, Horner approaches the text as a Christian educator himself, bringing the complex seventeenth-century texts into modern light for practical application. Addressing questions such as how to handle pagan texts, how to develop a theology of aesthetics, and why we must grapple with the relationship between pagan wisdom and scripture, this book will serve as a thorough and readable introduction to the complex thought of one of the Puritan intellectual giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Puritan poet John Milton is most famous for his massive theological epic <em>Paradise Lost<\/em>. He was also known as perhaps the greatest genius of the English Renaissance\u2014possibly the best-educated man of his day\u2014and also a major theorist of classical learning for Christians. 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