St Augustine

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St Augustine is indisputably a major thinker in education. Ryan Topping's volume offers the most coherent account of St Augustine's educational thought. This work is divided into: Series Editor's Preface Foreword Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part 1: Intellectual Biography 1 Approaching Augustine Part 2: Critical Explosion 2 The Aims of Education 3 The Art of the Teacher 4 The Matter of Liberal Education 5 The Limits of Education Part 3: Philosophical Reception and Relevance 6 Augustine and Some Philosophers of Education 7 St. Augustine and the Defense of Liberal Education Select Bibliography Index

Ryan Topping is Fellow at Thomas More College of the Liberal Arts, New Hampshire, USA. Richard Bailey is a writer and researcher in education and sport. A former teacher in both primary and secondary schools and a teacher trainer, he has been Professor at a number of leading Universities in the UK. He now lives and works in Germany, where he is Manager of Sport and Health at the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education.

'Ryan Topping's book on Augustine is an essential addition to a series on great educational thinkers. He shows convincingly how Augustine defends a Christian liberal education, a unique synthesis of pagan rhetorical techniques and Christian spirituality, whose Christian character is seen in its valuing of truth, its emphasis on love, and its cheerfulness. Topping's analysis of Augustine's influence is realistic, identifying limitations as well as strengths in his educational philosophy. This realism strengthens the application of Augustinian ideas to contemporary debates about the university.' Vivian Boland, O.P., Director of the Aquinas Institute at Blackfriars Hall, and member of the Theology Faculty of Oxford University, UK Ryan Topping's new book on St. Augustine is not so much a book about this famous saint as it is a treasury of insightful meditations on the state of higher education, especially Catholic higher education, and what the future of Catholic studies may be. http://morec.com/phd/bcc/topping.pdf -- B.C. Catholic