by trueendsblog | May 18, 2018 | Steps to Wisdom
Fear of God, piety, knowledge gathering, strength and resolution, diligent application. Our students have been practicing these steps since September. As parents and tutors we’ve seen them grow, as they learn a little bit more of what it means to humbly approach...
by trueendsblog | Mar 1, 2018 | Steps to Wisdom
For in this frame of mind he extricates himself from every form of fatal joy in transitory things, and turning away from these, fixes his affection on things eternal, to wit, the unchangeable Trinity in unity. And when, to the extent of his power, he has gazed upon...
by trueendsblog | Jan 19, 2018 | Steps to Wisdom
After these two steps of fear and piety, we come to the third step, knowledge, of which I have now undertaken to treat. For in this every earnest student of the Holy Scriptures exercises himself, to find nothing else in them but that God is to be loved for His own...
by trueendsblog | Dec 6, 2017 | Steps to Wisdom
Following fear of God, which is the first of Augustine’s “Steps to Wisdom,” is what Augustine calls piety. He says that once we recognize that God is in authority over us and we start to learn his commandments, we ought to realize that “whatever...
by trueendsblog | Oct 25, 2017 | Steps to Wisdom
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. Proverbs 9:10 The path to wisdom is one that we are very much concerned with in classical Christian education. Because our model is founded in the Christian worldview, we...
