“One will observe,” wrote St. Thomas Aquinas, “that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.”
While we hear the word “beauty” a great deal today—beauty products, beauty salons, beautiful people, “that fish was a beauty”—it’s safe to say that few people are thinking about beauty in the very Medieval way of St. Thomas, that the experience of beauty today is different than it was for Thomas’s contemporaries.
The question of the Medieval experience of beauty is one that Dr. Jason Baxter has been exploring this summer in a class for our friends at The University of St. Thomas and will continue to explore during the fall semester while he is on sabbatical.
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Music, Worship, and Theology by Dr. Stanley Grove
Alexandre Solzhenitsyn "A World Split Apart": A Conversation Between Dr. Virginia Arbery and Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos
Learning to Love Poetry with Dr. Glenn Arbery
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John Keats "The Eve of St. Agnes": A Conversation Between Dr. Glenn Arbery and Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Faith and Reason in Dei Filius with Dr. Kent Lasnoski and Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Into the Lenten Desert: 7) “How to Perform Scripture: Lectio Divina and Reading with the Heart” by Dr. Jason Baxter
Sickness, Separation, Grief, and Holy Week by Prof. Kyle Washut
Into the Lenten Desert: 6) “Praying with the Whole World: Evagrios and ‘Natural Contemplation’” by Dr. Jason Baxter
Michael Behe and Irreducible Complexity with Dr. Scott Olsson and Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Into the Lenten Desert: 5) “Dionysius the Areopagite and the Darkness of God” by Dr. Jason Baxter
St. John Henry Newman on the Theotokos with Prof. Kyle Washut and Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Into the Lenten Desert 4) “Augustine’s Restless Heart and the Inward Turn: What Augustine Learned from the Pagans” by Dr. Jason Baxter
“Only on the bright edges of the world”: Man and Landscape in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop with Ms Catherine Stypa
Into the Lenten Desert: 3) "Pagans Grope Toward God: Piety and Prayer in Classical Antiquity" by Dr. Jason Baxter
"The World is Too Much with Us": The Romantic Poetry of William Wordsworth with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Into the Lenten Desert: 2) "How Did We Get Here: Why We Need the Medieval Masters" by Dr. Jason Baxter
The Oresteia: Vengence, Fury, and Justice with Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos
Into the Lenten Desert: 1) The Soul from Whom God Hides Nothing by Dr. Jason Baxter
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