Renewing the Mind

by Ryan N.S. Topping

Catholic University of America Press, 2015
Paper: 978-0-8132-2731-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8132-2732-0
Library of Congress Classification LC473.R46 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 371.0712

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Renewing the Mind includes an introductory essay on the history and renewal of Catholic education, followed by 38 selections each with an introduction, biography, and study questions; adorning the text throughout are illustrations from the National Gallery of Art. Educators of children and college students will find this an essential guide to the best of what has been said about what it means to be conformed to the mind of Christ.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Illustrations

Foreword (Don J. Briel)

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: The Aims of Education

1. Plato from The Republic

2. Artistotle from On the Parts of Animals

3. Quintilian from The Institutes of Oratory

4. St. Augustine from On Christian Teaching

5. St. Thomas Aquinas from Summa Contra Gentiles

6. Thomas à Kempis from The Imitation of Christ

7. H. S. Gerdil from The Anti-Emile

8. Bl. John Henry Newsman from The Idea of a University

9. St. John Paul II from On Faith and Reason

Part II: The Matter of Learning

10. Plato from The Republic

11. St. Basil the Great from Address to Young Men on the Reading of Greek Literature

12. Hugh of St. Victor from Didascalicon

13. St. Bonaventure from Reduction of the Arts to Theology

14. St. Thomas Aquinas from Summa Theologiae

15. Bl. John Henry Newman from The Idea of a University

16. Jacques Maritain from the Education at the Crossroads

Part III: The Methods of Teaching

17. Plato from Meno

18. St. Augustine from On Christian Teaching

19. St. Thomas Aquinas from Summa Theologiae

20. Erasmus of Rotterdam from On the Method of Study, to Christianus of Lubeck

21. Michel De Montaigne from Of the Education of Children

22. The Society of Jesus from Ratio Studiorum

23. H. S. Gerdil from The Anti-Emile

24. Maria Montessori from The Montessori Method

25. A. G. Sertillanges from On the Intellectual Life

Part IV: On Renewal in Our Time

26. Leo XIII from On the Restoration of Christian Philosophy

27. G. K. Chesterton from Orthodoxy

28. Ronald Knox from On Christian Education

29. C. S. Lewis from Learning in War-Time

30. Dorothy Sayers from The Lost Tools of Learning

31. Christopher Dawson from Crisis in Western Education

32. St. John XXIII from On the Study of Latin

33. John Senior from The Restoration of Christian Culture

34. St. John Paul II from On the Role of the Christian Family

35. Laura M. Berquist from Designing Your Own Classical Curriculum

36. Michael D. O'Brien from A Landscape with Dragons

37. Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB from The Holy See's Teaching on Catholic Schools

38. Benedict XVI from Meeting with Catholic Educators

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Notes

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