2025 Workshop Talk | | Literature
Summary
Man’s chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever; the chief end of education must be to equip students to do just that. Therefore, the classroom’s primary purpose is to train students to worship God in all things and strengthen their allegiance to Christ through the subjects they learn and the lessons they receive. This workshop will focus on several key passages from Dante’s Paradiso to unpack what I call a doxological pedagogy and give educators a practical model to imitate.
Speaker
Joe Carlson (PhD Literature) lives with his wife and son in Moscow, Idaho. He received his BA from New St Andrews College and his MA in humanities and PhD in literature from the University of Dallas. He has managed a chain of coffee shops, published (micro) epic poetry, copastored a church, co-founded a university campus ministry, and taught many different kinds of classes over the years. He is an adjunct lecturer at New St Andrews College, a humanities teacher with Logos Online School, and a curriculum developer at Roman Roads Press. He is the author of the Dante Curriculum, which includes an original blank verse translation of the Divine Comedy and a new Reader’s Guide to Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, all published by Roman Roads Press. His work can be found at dantepoem.com and miltonpoem.com.
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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