The Roman statesman and writer Cassiodorus, however, in his 6th-century Institutiones, began with the Scriptures and the church and gave only brief attention to such subjects as arithmetic and geometry. St. Isidore of Sevilla, educated in the Classical tradition, redressed the balance in the ...
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Boarding schools were present inIndiaduring theVedic period(1500 to 800bce). Students stayed with theirguru(teacher) at agurukul(literally, “house of the teacher”) and studied primarily religious teachings and traditional scriptures, as well as politics and science. Education wasimpartedby word ...
Cultures from around the world and throughout generations have generated poetry for many different purposes. There are religious scriptures which are written as poetry, poems that are meant to convey profound yet secular truths about the world, and light poetry which is meant to be humorous. As ...
The Christian and the“Jewish”groups oppose each other on the level ofreadingthe Scriptures. All who do not interpret Scripture inaspiritual senseare the opponents of the“we-group,”and accordingtoHom.Exod.2.4, theseare theJews. Thus, Origen identifies“spiritual”with“Christian”and“literal”...
methods first applied to the Scriptures were extended as a general principle to classical andsecularwritings. The allegorical or symbolic approach that found inVirgila pre-Christian prophet and in theAeneida narrative of the soul’s journey through life to paradise (Rome) belonged to the same tradi...