Coram Deo is an academic journal focusing on all areas relating directly to classical-Christian education. Seeking to edify students, teachers, and parents in their understanding of classical education and how classical education relates to contemporary Christian schooling, Coram Deo publishes interdisciplinary essays on various topics from ancient pedagogy to modern praxis. Coram Deo is published quarterly in both hard copy and electronic formats.   [more]  [contact]

We continue in a millennia-old tradition of the fathers of our faith when we choose to educate our children in the presence of God. From the ancient Hebrew people to the present Christian home and day school movement, God’s covenant people have obeyed His command to train their children in the way they should live. In so doing, they preserve faith and family and bring transformation to the broader culture.   [more]

It was the first adult Great Books discussion at Coram Deo. I was a bit nervous, partly because I was leading the discussion, partly because I was not sure anyone else would show up. Luckily, a few brave souls began filing into the room, taking their places around the circled tables. All had copies of “Habit,” a short selection from John Dewey’s Human Nature and Conduct. In retrospect, it seems a bit perverse for our classical, Christian school to have launched a Great Books program by reading Dewey, but, as luck (or providence?) would have it, he just happened to be the first author in our anthology.   [more]

How does Modern and Contemporary Art fit into the Christian worldview and the classical education model? Some may answer not at all; there is no correlation. Some may feel there is no order, beauty, or technique in modern and contemporary art. But consider for a moment the idea that these traits do indeed exist, and there is in fact a direct relationship.   [more]

Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) had his priorities right: he was a theologian first, a philosopher second, and a teacher always. His writings bear the distinguishing mark of a magister, practiced in the teaching method of disputation: a question is stated; objections are raised; the teacher speaks his mind; then, one by one, the objections are overcome. The following shortened selection still betrays the form of this pedagogy, even while questioning the very possibility of teaching itself: “Whether one man can teach another?”   [more]

Creator of all things, true source of light and wisdom, origin of all being, graciously let a ray of your light penetrate the darkness of my understanding.   [more]