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First Things and The Covenant School invite you to
a First Things lecture presented by Peter Leithart.

Habit-Forming: Liturgies of Education

From the first pages of Scripture, God is revealed as a divine liturgist. His creative speech is repetitive, ritualized. Made in the image of this God, human beings are liturgical creatures. Godly habits are formed not only by instruction but by practice. Soldiers drill to become good soldiers. A basketball player trains his muscles so that each foul shot is identical to every other. In the church, the liturgy is one of the Spirit’s instruments for shaping godly persons and communities, and the same is true in education.

Dr Leithart’s lecture will explore the implications of this perspective for education and present examples of healthy and unhealthy educational rituals. Every educational model assumes an answer to the question, ‘What is a human being?’ If we are liturgical creatures, the classroom is the space for a formative liturgical dialogue between teacher and students.


Habit-Forming: Liturgies of Education, delivered by Peter Leithart
a First Things Lecture

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WHEN:
7:00pm
Monday, November 16, 2015

WHERE:
The Covenant School (directions)
Rhetoric Building, 3rd Floor
7300 Valley View Lane
Dallas, TX 75240

N.B.: School entrance via Valley View Lane from LBJ-635 service road

For more information about The Covenant School, please click here.


Leithart

Peter J. Leithart is President of the Theopolis Institute, in Birmingham, Alabama, and an adjunct Senior Fellow at New St. Andrews College in Idaho. He is ordained in the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches and is the author of more than twenty books, most recently Traces of the Trinity (Baker, forthcoming), and Gratitude: An Intellectual History (Baylor). He writes a blog at firstthings.com/blogs/leithart, and has published articles in both popular and academic periodicals including First Things, The International Journal of Systematic Theology, Pro Ecclesia, Journal of Biblical Literature, and Westminster Theological Journal. Dr. Leithart holds an A.B. in English and History from Hillsdale College, a Master of Arts in Religion and a Master of Theology from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, England. He has served as a pastor of Reformed Heritage Presbyterian Church (now Trinity Presbyterian Church) in Birmingham, Alabama, and of Trinity Reformed Church in Moscow, Idaho. He and his wife, Noel, have ten children and seven grandchildren.


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