So it draws from an opinionated sampling of the “western canon,” not exactly the list I would choose but then again I’m not a classics educator. Some clear choices for providing fig leaves against claims of Christian bias, but it seems kinda obvious that this is designed to lean in that direction. Few people are reading St. Athanasius or St. Bede the Venerable in their secular liberal arts classes.
I don’t know how to follow this intuition, but I weirdly suspect more left leaning people nerd out about this kind of thing than right leaning people. There’s a reason liberal arts programs lean left. Nothing about MAGA seems to be all that like intellectually conservative these days.
There are definitely some conservative Christian nerds that have their favorite early father of the church and won’t shut up about e.g. the difference between homoousios and homoiousios, but in my experience these people tend to be too aware of the intricacies of Christian doctrine to think much about MAGA-based Christian revisionism.
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https://www.cltexam.com/tests/authors/
So it draws from an opinionated sampling of the “western canon,” not exactly the list I would choose but then again I’m not a classics educator. Some clear choices for providing fig leaves against claims of Christian bias, but it seems kinda obvious that this is designed to lean in that direction. Few people are reading St. Athanasius or St. Bede the Venerable in their secular liberal arts classes.
I don’t know how to follow this intuition, but I weirdly suspect more left leaning people nerd out about this kind of thing than right leaning people. There’s a reason liberal arts programs lean left. Nothing about MAGA seems to be all that like intellectually conservative these days.
There are definitely some conservative Christian nerds that have their favorite early father of the church and won’t shut up about e.g. the difference between homoousios and homoiousios, but in my experience these people tend to be too aware of the intricacies of Christian doctrine to think much about MAGA-based Christian revisionism.