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Scholar’s Compass Navigating Beginnings: Learning Scholarly Virtues from the Iliad

September 11, 2014 by Bethany Bear 1 Comment

Bethany Bear loves teaching the Iliad because it depicts the play and conflict of so many fundamental human values: friendship, fame, and more. Read about the scholarly virtues she learns from the Iliad.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Love Your Academic Discipline, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: eleos, glory, Homer, hospitality, Iliad, kleos, Love, Love Your Academic Discipline, Navigating Beginnings, philos, Scholar's Compass, The Four Loves, virtue, xenia, xenos

Fame, Glory and the Struggle of a Christian Academic

April 11, 2013 by John Hundley 4 Comments

As a student in the secular academy — wait. No. If Plato was right (and I think he was spot on here), then whether a student of the secular academy or a fireman or a pastor, I am lured by ever-glistening immortal fame. Every one of us, no matter what he does, is longing for the […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: fame, Homer, InterVarsity Global Project, Kenya, Odysseus, Plato, sirens, temptation

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