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Education has become splintered and fragmented in our postmodern culture. The arts are divorced from the sciences; faith is at loggerheads with reason. Drawing on ancient traditions of learning,
Beauty for Truth's Sake points the way to unity in education through a renewed understanding of cosmic order.
Brazos Press, part of the Baker Publishing Group
www.brazospress.com (and in the UK
www.bakerpublishinggroup.co.uk)
US price $22.99 and UK price: £12.99
"This
book struck me with the force of a revelation. Stratford Caldecott's
thesis--that modern mathematics can recreate a sense of the beauty of cosmic
order which would re-orient the educational program and, furthermore, prepare a
way for liturgical worship--is to me a very remarkable example of 'thinking
outside the box.' Full of memorable and highly specific formulations, Beauty
for Truth's Sake also testifies to the marvelously holistic quality of the
author's vision."--Aidan Nichols, OP, author of Redeeming Beauty
"An
erudite, compassionate, powerful argument for recovering the deepest dimensions
of the liberal arts, for rethinking education as the path to wisdom. Caldecott
ranges across a breathtaking array of disciplines--including geometry, history,
liturgy, music, astronomy, and mythology--as he demonstrates that faith and
reason, art and science, are not enemies, but comrades in the search for truth.
An important and uplifting book."--Philip
Zaleski, editor of the Best Spiritual Writing series and coauthor of Prayer:
A History
"This work is likely to become something of a bible for Liberal Arts
students. It covers everything from music theory to number symbolism and
Trinitarian theology. Caldecott shows a particularly deep appreciation of the
Benedictine roots of European high culture and quotes Prince Charles as well as
St. Bonaventure. The prose is beautiful and every sentence carefully crafted.
Caldecott concludes that the Trinity is the home of the Logos and the shape of
love. These are the high secrets of our Western tradition, and together they
offer the key to its renewal. Postmodern thinkers will also find that this is an
accessible, succinct guide to Christian cosmology."--Tracey Rowland,
dean, John Paul II Institute,
Melbourne
,
Australia
"This
book offers three kinds of light: lucidity, illumination, and scintillation--the
lucidity of participating in the divine simplicity, which substitutes profundity
for mere complexity; illumination through the divine light of the Logos that
shines as one in both creation and revelation; the scintillation of realizing
that this truth can only be approached in love. Caldecott shows that all of our
natural and social reality reflectively sparkles with a new anticipation,
revealing to us how it might be transformed to better show forth the divine
likeness."--Catherine Pickstock, university reader in philosophy and
theology,
University
of
Cambridge
; fellow of
Emmanuel
College
"Stratford
Caldecott provides a remarkable manifesto that restores mystery to its proper
place in education. With mystery comes wonder, awe, reverence, beauty, and a
sense of discovery that leads us to a deeper wisdom. Without these, science and
mathematics are sterile, dull, and doomed, and the humanities are impossible.
Caldecott has pronounced a blessing for our children and our children's
children."--Scott Hahn, Pope Benedict XVI Chair of Biblical Theology
and Liturgical Proclamation, St. Vincent Seminary; professor of scripture and
theology, Franciscan University of Steubenville
"This is a book that addresses the soul,
mind, spirit, and will. It is an extended meditation on the sources of becoming
more human that inevitably relate humanity to God. It is about education,
spiritual maturing, and a lifetime vocation of learning. It is a wise book, an
inspiring book, a beautiful book."--Ralph McInerny,
University
of
Notre
Dame
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