{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Classical Education","title":"The Trivium with Dr. Phillip Donnelly: Grammar part 1","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3521,"description":"About The Guest\nDr. Phillip J. Donnelly is Professor of Literature for the Great Texts Program in the Honors College at Baylor University. His teaching and research focus on the connections between philosophy, theology, and imaginative literature, with particular attention to Renaissance literature and the reception of Classical educational traditions.  He serves on the editorial board of Principia: A Journal of Classical Education.  He is the Director of the Texas Chapter of the Alcuin Fellowship and serves on the national board for the Alcuin Fellowship.  He is the author of The Lost Seeds of Learning: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric as Life-Giving Arts (Classical Academic Press) and Milton’s Scriptural Reasoning (Cambridge Univ. Press).  He is the co-editor (with D.H. Williams) of Transformations in Biblical Literary Traditions (Univ. of Notre Dame Press). \n\nShow Notes\nThis engaging conversation gives voice to the nature of verbal arts. As written in his book, The Lost Seeds of Learning: Grammar, Logic, Rhetoric as Life-Giving Arts,  Dr. Phillip Donnelly offers the image of a living seed to represent purposeful communication. From this episode, you will gain a vision for skills learned in the classroom that are alive, not detached, with a new sense of enthusiasm for the art of grammar.  Some points of discussion include: \nWhy is the trivium so important?\nWhat is the core function of the trivium?\nWhy a seed metaphor?\nWhat is grammar in the trivium?\nBooks Mentioned in the Episode\nFor 15% off CAP products use discount code CEPODCAST15 at checkout.\nDr. Donnelly's book is published by CAP (Classical Academic Press)\nThe Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nash in the Learning of His Time by Marshall McLuhan\nConfessions by St. Augustine (trans. Maria Boulding)\n________________________________________________________\nUpcoming Winter Workshop Links:\nFundamentals of a Charlotte Mason Education 7 Week Intensive (with Karen Glass, Kiernan Fiore, and Adrienne Freas) ...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/DsrYl-awCukXSFKDckygguVHzLRcY9iAoBPsvd9v3jg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI4OTg0LzE2NDcw/MzA0MjQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}