Literature
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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
- Gustave Flaubert
Eat these books.
Explore the Lodge Library: books worth feasting on, following Eugene Peterson’s call to consume life-giving words.
“And the question of ‘how the coming generation is to live’ cannot be extricated from the other one: how should the coming generation be educated? What is perhaps most remarkable about the figures we will be studying… is that their answer, generally speaking, involved not just theological and philosophical reflection, but also literary experience.
- Alan Jacobs, The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis
Our philosophy.
Looking at the world through the lens of our favorite thinkers.
Lectures and further study.
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Literature.
Don’t know what to read? These lists are a good place to start.
“Students: to you ‘tis given to scan the heights/ above, to traverse the ethereal space/, and mark the systems of revolving worlds.”
- Phyllis Wheatley, “To the University of Cambridge”