Awakening Wonder: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty

Welcome!

In this brief course, Dr. Stephen Turley traces and explains the tradition of the enduring transcendental ideals of truth, goodness, and beauty. If truth, goodness, and beauty are cornerstones of the classical tradition of education, then classical educators should know more about their origin, purpose, historical development, and present-day relevance.

This course follows the text Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness & Beauty, published by Classical Academic Press. The video lectures in this course will follow the table of contents in this book. We highly recommend purchasing the text for reference throughout the course.

This course follows the text Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness & Beauty, published by Classical Academic Press. Reading assignments associated with each video lecture are listed in each session, as well as questions for discussion and reflection.

Lesson1: Two Civilizations as Sources for Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
Lesson 2: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Classical World
Lesson 3: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Christian East
Lesson 4: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Christian West
Lesson 5: Redeeming the Senses
Lesson 6: The Moral Imagination
Lesson 7: How Beauty Teaches
Lesson 8: Beauty and Theology
Lesson 9: Dr. Christopher Perrin Interviews Dr. Turley

Steve Turley (PhD, Durham University) is a theologian, social theorist, classical Christian educator, and prize-winning classical guitarist. He is the author of The Ritualised Revelation of the Messianic Age: Washings and Meals in Galatians and 1 Corinthians and Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness & Beauty. Steve blogs on the church, society and culture, education, and the arts at TurleyTalks.com. He is a faculty member at Tall Oaks Classical School in New Castle, DE, where he teaches theology, Greek, and rhetoric, and is a professor of fine arts at Eastern University. Steve lectures at universities, conferences, and churches throughout the U.S. and abroad. His research and writings have appeared in such journals as Christianity and Literature, Calvin Theological Journal, First Things, Touchstone, and The Chesterton Review. He and his wife, Akiko, have four children and live in Newark, DE, where they together enjoy fishing, gardening, and watching Duck Dynasty marathons.