The Davenant Institute

Christiana Paideia Vivendi

Christian Wisdom for Living Well

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Six Aspects of the Course

Each aspect of Christiana Paideia Vivendi opens a window onto the Christian intellectual tradition. Continue scrolling to walk through all six.

Logic & Rhetoric

Logic & Rhetoric

[Placeholder, final copy pending] Longer descriptive copy for the Logic & Rhetoric aspect: the art of clear thinking and persuasive speech, recovered from the medieval trivium and re-grounded in Christian moral imagination.

English Literature

English Literature

[Placeholder, final copy pending] Longer descriptive copy for the English Literature aspect: from the Pearl-Poet through Spenser, Donne, and the King James Bible to the modern Inklings, the great vernacular tradition that formed the English Christian mind.

Philosophy

Philosophy

[Placeholder, final copy pending] Longer descriptive copy for the Philosophy aspect: the great questions of being, knowledge, and the good, traced from Athens to Aquinas to the present.

Latin

Latin

[Placeholder, final copy pending] Longer descriptive copy for the Latin aspect: the lingua franca of Western Christendom, opened as a living key to fifteen centuries of theology, law, science, and devotion.

Social & Intellectual History

Social & Intellectual History

[Placeholder, final copy pending] Longer descriptive copy for the Social & Intellectual History aspect: the long story of how Christian ideas shaped, and were shaped by, the institutions, communities, and conflicts of the West.

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