“What does it mean to be wise?” a psychologist recently asked an 8-year-old and an 88-year-old from different parts of the world. “Their answers,” she reported, “were remarkably similar: to know a lot.”
If wisdom was simply a question of knowing a lot, we would need to conclude that Americans today are by far the wisest generation to live. After all, thanks to the internet, we know a lot about a lot of things. But is access to knowledge, to data really the definition of wisdom? Isn’t wisdom more a matter of how we live than about what we know?
Of the 73 books in our Bibles, we classify seven as “wisdom books.” Those are Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Wisdom of Solomon, and Sirach. And for most people, aside from Psalms, the books seem rather elusive.
To help us understand wisdom and the wisdom books as we embark on a new calendar year, we’re joined by theologian Dr. Jeremy Holmes.
”What is the World For” a Lecture by Dr. Scott Olsson
Lament, the Wheel of Fortune, and ”The Consolation of Philosophy” with Dr. Jason Baxter
The Nature of Poetry: Socrates‘ Dialogue with Ion with Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos
Thanksgiving and ”Dappled Things” with Dr. Glenn Arbery
Music, Mathematics, and Morality in Boethius with Prof. Christopher Hodkinson
”From Thy Bounty” with Miss Marietta Mortensen
Machiavelli on the Stage and in the Classroom with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Telling ”The American Story” with Dr. Christopher Flannery
The American Character and the Revolution with Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos
Creation and Preservation in St. Thomas Aquinas with Dr. Travis Dziad
On Learning to Write with Dr. Jason Baxter
Aeneas: Journey into the Underworld with Dr. Adam Cooper
Knowing God Through Reason and Revelation with Prof. Kyle Washut
Aristotle‘s ”Categories” with Dr. Michael Bolin
In Conversation with Ancient Greek and Latin with Prof. Stephen Hill
Snow in August and the Liberal Arts by Prof. Kyle Washut
From the Mountains to the Classroom by Dr. Glenn Arbery
A Philosopher Reads St. Thomas Aquinas with Dr. Daniel Shields
Understanding the Trinity with Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Wyoming is Our Classroom: Field Science with Dr. Paul Giesting
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