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Christian Paideia (Vol. II: A History of Christian Education from 500 to 1050 AD)

by Brian Welter

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• Publication date: December 21, 2025
• Pages: 300
• Size: 6 x 9

• $22.95

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  CHRISTIAN PAIDEIA

  VOL. II: A HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION FROM 500 TO 1050 AD

  While the first volume of Christian Paideia traces the outstanding achievements of the Church Fathers in their appropriation of Greco-Roman paideia for the Church, the second volume discusses how early medieval thinkers from the Latin West and the Greek East continued and deepened this work. They further developed many aspects of this now-Christian paideia and added much that was creative, spiritual, and even charming in their love and pursuit of wisdom and the truth. They did so even while they faced a range of cultural, educational, and religious challenges in the upheavals that Western and Eastern Christians faced from 500 to 1050 AD. 

   

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  Author · Translator · Teacher

  Brian Welter

  History, theology, language, and the search for truth

   

  A general author and translator page for Brian Welter’s work with Arouca Press: original studies and translations.

  Christian education Translation History Theology Applied linguistics

   

  ✠ ABOUT THE AUTHOR ✠

  Brian Welter has studied history, theology, and applied linguistics while teaching English in South Korea, Canada, Taiwan, and France. He is interested in how language can be used to shed light on the truth but also to manipulate it. He has translated several books for Arouca Press, including Immortal Latin, Pius XIV, and Philippe de la Trinité’s three-volume set, Teilhard de Chardin: A Critical Study, which is a work in progress.

  Language and truth

  Welter’s work is marked by a concern for words: how language can disclose reality, preserve Christian memory, form the mind, and also become a tool of distortion when severed from truth.

   

  ❦ ORIGINAL WORKS ❦

  Welter is the author of Arouca Press’s two-volume Christian Paideia, a substantial history of Christian education from classical antiquity through the early Middle Ages.

  Authored work

  Christian Paideia, Vol. I

  A History of Christian Education to 500 AD: From Athens to the Church Fathers.

  Authored work

  Christian Paideia, Vol. II

  A History of Christian Education from 500 to 1050 AD.

  Two-volume set

  Christian Paideia Set

  Volumes I & II together: 622 pages of Christian educational history.

   

  ✦ TRANSLATIONS FOR AROUCA PRESS ✦

  Translation · Latin & civilization

  Immortal Latin

  Marie-Madeleine Martin’s defense of Latin’s civilizational and universal significance.

  Translation · fiction / ecclesial crisis

  Pius XIV

  Don Giuseppe Pace’s novel on the postconciliar crisis, tradition, and the drama of reform.

  Translation · theological critique

  Teilhard de Chardin: A Critical Study

  Philippe de la Trinité, o.c.d. The full three-volume set is a work in progress:

  Volume I: Faith in the Universal Christ
  Volume II: Cosmic and Christic Vision
  Volume III: For and Against Teilhard de Chardin, Religious Thinker

  Translation · Thomistic modernity critique

  Intelligence in Danger of Death

  Marcel De Corte’s analysis of propaganda, utopia, false information, and the crisis of intelligence.

  Translation · political philosophy

  Salazar and His Work

  Essays by Marcel De Corte, Pierre Gaxotte, and Gustave Thibon, with foreword by Dr. Marcos Pinho de Escobar.

  Translation · liberalism critique

  Either Catholicism or Liberalism

  The pastoral and circular letters of St. Ezequiel Moreno y Díaz.

   

  ✦ AREAS OF WORK ✦

  Christian education

  His authored work examines the inheritance of Christian learning and the history of formation in truth.

  Translation

  His translations bring French, Italian, and Spanish Catholic works into English for contemporary readers.

  History and theology

  His background in history and theology informs his approach to Christian culture and doctrine.

  Applied linguistics

  His interest in language includes both its capacity to reveal truth and its capacity to obscure or manipulate it.

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  General author page

   

  This page serves as a common point of reference for Welter’s authored works and translations for Arouca Press.

• For the scholar in quest of a substantial history of Christian education, here is a rare treasure that belongs on his bookshelf—or, better, in his hands. The author takes us beyond the river of words that the Schools have produced over several millennia to the very Word, wherein lies the font of all wisdom and Christian paideia.  This book is not for “novices” or the faint of heart, unless, of course, such a one may wish to delve more deeply into the habit of mind that has formed the best minds of our civilization. —✠ Abbot Philip Anderson, Our Lady of Clear Creek Monastery (Hulbert, OK)

  Brian Welter's work provides a valuable service to all who hold Christian education dear. Beginning with the Greco-Roman foundations of Western civilization, Welter analyzes the process by which the Christian faith appropriated the educational structure of antiquity and transfigured it according to a Christian pedagogy. It is truly a masterpiece that deserves close attention by anyone interested in the intersection of faith and education in Christendom. —Phillip Campbell, author of The Story of Civilization series

  I frequently receive questions about the history of “classical education”: What were the sources and methods? How was the curriculum structured? At what age did formal learning begin, and what was its pacing? Not since Henri Marrou’s seminal history of education has there been such a comprehensive and masterful treatment of Christian Paideia. Welter surpasses even Marrou by illuminating the often-overlooked medieval traditions of both East and West, revealing how deeply Western education is indebted to Eastern pedagogical thought. This timely two-volume series is an essential read for the scholar and practitioner alike in support of an authentic renewal of Christian education. —Christopher Owens, Chief Executive Officer, Veterum Sapientia Institute

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