Personhood, limits, and academic vocation

Personhood, limits, and academic vocation

FROM VOL. 39
Marion Montgomery (1934–2002) offers a deep critique of the relationship of the academy to its community in an effort to diagnose how higher education has lost its way. (13 minutes)
What higher education forgot

What higher education forgot

FROM VOL. 84
Harry L. Lewis discusses higher education’s amnesia about its purposes, and how that shortchanges students. (19 minutes)
The history of Christianity and higher education

The history of Christianity and higher education

FROM VOL. 50
In tracing Christianity's relationship to the academy, Arthur F. Holmes points to Augustine as one of the first to embrace higher learning, believing God's ordered creation to be open to study by the rational mind of man. (9 minutes)
On wonder, wisdom, worship, and work

On wonder, wisdom, worship, and work

Classical educator Ravi Jain dives deeply into the nature, purpose, and interconnectedness of the liberal, common, and fine arts. (43 minutes)
The loss of hierarchy and humility in the academy

The loss of hierarchy and humility in the academy

In interviews from 1999, literature professors Alvin Kernan and Marion Montgomery discuss how culture of the academy — its hyper-democratic posture and its loathing of limits — derails the pursuit of truth. (25 minutes)
Blest be the ties of language that bind us

Blest be the ties of language that bind us

Marion Montgomery on the precious gift of words
The academy’s deconstruction of both person and community

The academy’s deconstruction of both person and community

Marion Montgomery on cultivating “a deportment of intellect governed by a continuing concern for the truth of things”
From university to multiversity to demoversity

From university to multiversity to demoversity

Alvin Kernan on tectonic shifts in higher education since the 1960s
Recovering natural philosophy

Recovering natural philosophy

Science teacher Ravi Scott Jain discusses natural philosophy, the “love of wisdom in the realm of nature,” as the overarching discipline in the sciences. (21 minutes)
Liberal arts and the importance of truth

Liberal arts and the importance of truth

Listen to conversations with two guests from Volume 153, Margarita Mooney and Louis Markos, on the liberal arts and the importance of truth. (26 minutes
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 153

Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 153

FEATURED GUESTS: Charles C. Camosy, O. Carter Snead, Matt Feeney, Margarita A. Mooney, Louis Markos, and Alan Jacobs
On the re-enchantment of education

On the re-enchantment of education

Stratford Caldecott on teaching in light of cosmic harmony
The Liberal Arts tradition, II — context and extension

The Liberal Arts tradition, II — context and extension

Kevin Clark explains how the book he co-authored defines a framework in which the Trivium and the Quadrivium are the core of a curriculum that includes piety, gymnastics, music, philosophy, and theology. (20 minutes)
The Liberal Arts tradition, I — science and harmony

The Liberal Arts tradition, I — science and harmony

Ravi Scott Jain discusses the place of the Quadrivium — the four mathematical arts — within the larger framework of the classical approach to education. (21 minutes)
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 117

Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 117

FEATURED GUESTS: Matthew Dickerson, Jennifer Woodruff Tait, Jeffry Davis, Philip Ryken, and Robert P. George