Author: Joshua Patch

Joshua Patch

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Commentary, Ad Fontes

Laughing at Liberal Learning: Education in Menippean Satire

Joshua Patch — May 30, 2026

Laughing at Liberal Learning: Education in Menippean Satire

There is a genre of literature that has long performed the useful office of mocking the best that has been thought and said in the world. Wherever lofty ideas have…

The Lost Seeds of Learning: A Review

Joshua Patch — January 16, 2023

The Lost Seeds of Learning: A Review

Should Christians imagine learning through the image of "seeds" rather than "tools"?

Gentle Discipline: Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Christian Elites

Joshua Patch — May 20, 2022

Gentle Discipline: Spenser’s Faerie Queene and Christian Elites

Spenser's poem presents a distinctly Protestant vision for Christian elites in church and society.