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Junius Johnson is a writer, teacher, speaker, independent scholar, and musician. His work focuses on beauty, imagination, and wonder, and how these are at play in the Christian and Classical intellectual traditions. He is the executive director of Junius Johnson Academics, through which he offers innovative courses that aim to ignite hearts with wonder and intellectual rigor. He holds a BA from Oral Roberts University (English Lit), an MAR from Yale Divinity School (Historical Theology), and an MA, two MPhils, and a PhD (Philosophical Theology) from Yale University. He is the author of 5 books, including The Father of Lights: A Theology of Beauty and On Teaching Fairy Stories, and has authored volumes and been a contributing writer for the Humanitas series of history textbooks with Classical Academic Press.
Starting from Bonaventure’s discussion of Scripture in his Breviloquium, this session explores the Medieval method of reading — which taught not only how to read books well, but how to interpret reality well and discern the work that God was doing in history — and what it offers classical pedagogy today.
This session is a demonstration of a key aspect of Medieval grammatical training: the type of hermeneutics that today is usually classed under literary criticism. By showing the principles of Medieval interpretation and illustrating it with examples applied to texts on every school’s syllabus, attendees will be enabled to see the practical power of this way of reading.
Junius Johnson is a writer, teacher, speaker, independent scholar, and musician. His work focuses on beauty, imagination, and wonder, and how these are at play in the Christian and Classical intellectual traditions. He is the executive director of Junius Johnson Academics, through which he offers innovative courses that aim to ignite hearts with wonder and intellectual rigor. He holds a BA from Oral Roberts University (English Lit), an MAR from Yale Divinity School (Historical Theology), and an MA, two MPhils, and a PhD (Philosophical Theology) from Yale University. He is the author of 5 books, including The Father of Lights: A Theology of Beauty and On Teaching Fairy Stories, and has authored volumes and been a contributing writer for the Humanitas series of history textbooks with Classical Academic Press.