Humanities at Trinity

By Grant Horner

Fri Dec 12, 2008

Ninth grade Humanities at Trinity is comprised of three courses: Literature, History, and Bible. These three are tightly integrated and deeply interwoven. Students will often be asked a question in History that could just as well be asked in Literature or Bible – and it works this way for all three classes. The historical period we’re studying matches with the Biblical texts we’re reading as well as the literary texts we’re working through. The goal is to give the students a sense of the flow of human experience in history, both in human culture and God’s workings. This is precisely the classical model that was followed in the Christian Humanist schools and universities during the Renaissance and Reformation of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Except I don’t wear my black velvet academic robes or speak Latin the whole time. (Just part of the time!)   ...Continued

Paideia

By Grant Horner

Mon Aug 18, 2008

I’m really looking forward to working with all my students this year at Trinity Classical Academy. I spent my summers for the last 15 years engaged in scholarship at a number of levels, reading, writing and speaking in a wide variety of venues. I have addressed Berkeley students, taught small Bible studies, been invited to lecture to scientists at Caltech and preached from more than a few pulpits. I believe the greatest thing a scholar can do is direct his or her students towards the truth of God, and to exemplify a life of loving service. This is precisely what I hope to do this year at Trinity!  ...Continued