Western Thought

[close] A group for people who want to read and discuss the Harvard Classics together. From Wikipedia: "The Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a three-foot shelf.) The publisher P. F. Collier and Son saw an opportunity and challenged Eliot to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works, and the Harvard Classics was the result." Also see http://harvardmagazine.com/2001/11/the-five-foot-shelf-reco.html

[close] An online Forum for promoting and discussing ideas and beliefs (Worldviews) related to the following interests within the Humanities: Worldview, Western Thought & Culture, Theology, Philosophy, Religion, Apologetics, Sociology, Psychology, Education, History, Politics, Science, Literature, Music, Film and the Arts. Also this discussion group is based on what is known as the "Great Ideas" (or thoughts) through out the "Great Books" of Western Civilization. i.e. as what Classicists refers to as Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. An emphasis is placed on defending a "Christian Worldview" which integrates and encompasses the following 3 distinctives: 1) Presuppositional Apologetics (Transcendental Argument), 2) a Paradoxical view a Christ and Culture (Two-Kingdom Doctrine), 3) Reformation Theology (The Five Sola's) also a Classical approach to Education and The Liberal Arts (The Trivium). We are a trans-denominational Teaching Ministry which also offers to those who are interested a correspondence degree program and courses through our online Seminary and Liberal Arts Academy.