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Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness & Beauty (Classical Education Guide) Perfect Paperback – March 16, 2015

by Steve Turley PhD (Author), David Diener PhD (Editor)
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In his masterful work, The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis observed how modern education was changing our conception of what it means to be human. By cutting off students from the transcendent values of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty, modern schools ceased cultivating virtue in students and instead communicated a mechanistic vision of the world that viewed students as products to be engineered. Lewis believed that in seeking to control nature, modern conditioners would also seek to control humans and remake them according to the preference of the conditioners, since any appeal to Truth, Goodness, or Beauty had been rejected. Lewis argued that we must recover these transcendent values in order to prevent the dehumanizing tendency in modern education and renew the cultivation of virtue in our students.
With Awakening Wonder, Steve Turley demonstrates that it is precisely such a recovery that is at the heart of the current classical education renewal. Once again, Truth, Goodness, and Beauty are celebrated as those objective values that are essential for cultivating students as flourishing human beings. In these pages you will discover the history and development of these transcendent values and how they redeem our senses and sanctify our imaginations. Teachers will also learn how to incorporate these values into their teaching to awaken awe and wonder in both themselves and their students.
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As we continue in our day with the task of rebuilding classical Christian education, one of the things we absolutely must do is reexamine the thought of some of the giants produced in times past by an earlier iteration of that same kind of education. And that is exactly what Grant Horner has done in this fine treatment of Milton. Highly recommended. --Douglas Wilson

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Steve Turley (PhD, Durham University) is a theologian, social theorist, classical Christian educator, and prize-winning classical guitarist. A faculty member at Tall Oaks Classical School in New Castle, Delaware, he teaches theology, Greek, and rhetoric. He is also Professor of Fine Arts at Eastern University. His research and writings have appeared in such journals as Christianity and Literature, Calvin Theological Journal, First Things, Touchstone, and The Chesterton Review.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Classical Academic Press (March 16, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Perfect Paperback ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1600512658
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1600512650
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches
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Steve Turley (Ph.D., Durham University) is an internationally recognized scholar, speaker, and classical guitarist. He is the author of Awakening Wonder: A Classical Guide to Truth, Goodness, and Beauty (Classical Academic Press) and The Ritualized Revelation of the Messianic Age: Washings and Meals in Galatians and 1 Corinthians (T&T Clark). 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 Professor of Fine Arts at Eastern University. His research and writings have appeared in such journals as Christianity and Literature, Calvin Theological Journal, First Things, Touchstone, and The Chesterton Review.

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Charles Schmidt
5.0 out of 5 stars This book really is good, beautiful and true
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Awakening Wonder by Stephen R. Turley is an outstanding short book which is filled with profound observations on the Good, the Beautiful and the True. Here are a just a few of those observations:

Beauty is the attractiveness or the good and the true. Beauty is the object of love since we love the beauty (i.e. the attractiveness) of goodness and truth. Beauty is always linked with the True and the Good. In order for something to be truly beautiful, it must by definition draw one to the True and the Good. Beauty communicates the True and the Good through its radiance. When love is amputated from Truth and Goodness, as in the case of pornography, it is no longer love but lust. [Note that beauty is the attractiveness of what is objectively good and true.]

For Saint Augustine knowledge involves the temporal world while wisdom involves eternal reality. [Wisdom sees deeper - into an immaterial real - and it sees further - into eternity.]

For Saint Augustine, the quest for Truth, Goodness and Beauty is none other than a quest for God. All men by nature have a need and a love for Truth, Beauty and Goodness, and since God is Truth, Beauty and Goodness, all men by nature have a need and love for God. [The goal of philosophy is to search for Truth, Goodness and Beauty, and since God is Truth, Goodness and Beauty, the goal of philosophy is to find God. Wisdom is knowing, loving and serving God.]

For Augustine, all things are good in relation to their divinely designated position within the hierarchy of God’s creation. Things are not evil in and of themselves but become evil when their order is abused. For example, money is good, but if someone prioritizes money above a child, then God’s hierarchy of goods has been violated. All things are to be valued and loved in accordance with their proportionate value in the divine economy (i.e., arrangement). Augustine developed this theory of evil as disordered loves in his On Christian Doctrine. In that book, he makes a distinction between things that are enjoyed and things that are used. We enjoy things when we love them for their own sakes; we use things when we love them for the sake of something else. For Augustine, only God and people are worthy of being loved for their own sakes, for they are both supremely valuable. All other loves are to be subordinate to the love of God; all created things are to be loved as objects that cause us to delight in God. [Evil in things is the absence of a good that should be there. The cause of evil is disordered loves.]

This book lives up to its title and it is indeed a guide to truth, goodness and beauty. This book only takes a couple of hours to read, and it is clear, true, beautiful and good.
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Stacey Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars It's easy to understand
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2016
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So much thought provoking material. It's easy to understand, but the depth of the material will cause you to think about it for days after you read it.
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Daniele Tressel
5.0 out of 5 stars Classical education
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A must read for classical educators
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Greg and Sara Masarik
4.0 out of 5 stars A powerful but unnecessarily academic little book.
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2016
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A powerful but unnecessarily academic little book.

There is much to love in this book. Better than almost everything else I have read on classical education, this book gives us a clear conception of the trinity of Truth, Goodness and Beauty. It grounds these Platonic values in the ancient Greek traditions and explains their evolution into Christian ideology. Understanding these essential values is critical to our understanding of true classical education. Truth, Goodness and Beauty are not just lofty ideals but are the backbone of the Greek paideia and therefore the foundation of any good education. It is the role of education to awaken wonder so that it primes the pump of our rational minds to pursue truth while accessing it through beauty which then compels us to act in goodness.

This is not an easy idea to unpack but the author does err on the side of excessive academic speak. He belabors points and often only weakly connects quotes to his primary point. The text meanders a bit which would be fine if he were writing in a more conversant voice. Since he is writing in the tone of a philosopher, I expected tighter arguments.

The fact remains that this book harnesses some essential goodness and left some distinct impressions on my mind over the weeks that I read it and reflected on it.
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Ariel Lewis
3.0 out of 5 stars Lead-footed academia
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2015
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This book has a nice theme, but the content is somewhat turgid and overly scholarly. Basically, it sounds like a "professional academic." You would probably do better with something a bit more inspired and plain-spoken, perhaps CS Lewis' The Abolition of Man.
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esperanza
5.0 out of 5 stars thanks.
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2019
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great book!!
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Marjorie Leighton
5.0 out of 5 stars Great
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2019
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Really good
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