Musings

These are the short articles from the weekly Mount Hope Lutheran School Newsletter. Topics include poems, paintings, great literary works, and the philosophy of classical education. You can browse through past articles here on the website, and you can subscribe to receive new ones in your inbox using the form on this page.

The Math of Counting

Ever since the Greeks, mathematicians interested in the nature of the world have invented new ways to speak of arithmetical ideas.

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Orpheus in the Underworld

On the Last Day there will be a bodily resurrection. This is one of the most striking of Jesus’ teachings when compared with the prevailing beliefs in the Greco-Roman world.

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Cranach’s Wittenberg Altarpiece

This painting was first displayed a year after Luther’s death, and those who viewed it saw their own pastors and themselves depicted as receiving God’s Word and Sacraments.

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Leisure and the Liberal Arts

A man at leisure is happy to be human. He realizes that he isn’t bound to instinct and survival like an animal, but that his gifts of reason and language set him apart as something more.

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Leisure, according to Josef Pieper

“Man seems to mistrust everything that is effortless; he can only enjoy, with a good conscience, what he has acquired with toil and trouble; he refuses to have anything as a gift.”

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