The Discarded Image
A Website About
Classical Christian Education
Liberal Arts

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 Please bear with me - this website is enduring much constructive work. 

I am planning to move it to its own domain name, and once there, to begin adding content.  However, as a full time teacher, my time is very limited and I do not know how quickly this transition will proceed.

Thanks for your patience!

Tim Enloe



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     Nor in fact should it be doubted that these philosophical passages [of Aristotle and Cicero] … are useful for discipline. God wants us to
    look at nature, and has impressed his sign in it so that we may recognize him: he gave arts not only that they may be a support in life, but
    also that they may inform us of the order of its author, who is seen in numbers, in the motion of the heavens, in pictures and in that
    eternal and unchanging barrier set in the mind of man, namely in the judgment of  good and bad: for that sweetest voice of Plato is
    correct when he says that the grace of God is scattered through the arts. Then let us love philosophy and know that it is to be used by the
    church to her great benefit, if it is used rightly. The minds of the pious would be thoroughly shocked if among the sacred things they saw
    the altars smeared with the sordid and filthy. It is no less evil to rush upon heavenly teaching barbarically, with inadequate knowledge of
    languages, history and arts, than it would be to desecrate sacred altars. Then let us cultivate studies of literature, language and honorable
    subjects, and give our work to the glory of God; and if we do that, it will be in God’s care, and will not lack rewards.

- Philip Melanchton, Address to the Master's Students at the University of Wittenberg (1537)