Latin is learned inductively using the Familia Romana series. What if, rather than only focusing upon the approximately 0.01% of all extant Latin that is the classical Roman authors, they are interested in the approximately 80% of extant Latin writings composed by those who professed to be Christians (Derek Cooper, Basics of Latin: A Grammar with Readings and Exercises from the Christian Tradition , xvii)?Ĭan such people learn both Christian and classical Latin together, at their own pace? Yes they can-using the curriculum outlined below. The language known by Biblical writers such as John Mark, by early Christians, by patristic writers, by the writer and audience of the Athanasian Creed, by influential medieval theologians, by reformers and Puritans, and by many influential Baptist leaders? What if they want to understand the untranslated portions of Keil & Delitzch’s Commentary on the Old Testament and many other technical and historically important commentaries? What if they want to learn the language that has had such an incredible impact on Christianity for over 1,500 years-the language of the Old Latin and Vulgate Bibles While the little rhyme above is popular among those who are unwillingly forced to learn Latin, aspiring and eager Latin students may perhaps instead prefer Veni, vidi, vici–Caesar’s famous saying, “I came, I saw, I conquered.” But Christians submit to Christ before Casear-so they are more likely to value Ego sum via et veritas et vita (John 14:6) far more highly than veni, vidi, vici-Christ’s “I am the way, the truth, and the life” above Caesar’s bloody conquests? What if, while viewing as valuable arma virumque cano-Virgil’s “Arms and the man I sing,” the conquests of the “pious” Greek and Roman war hero-and idolatrous fornicator-Aeneas, they would rather learn Christ’s in me pacem habeatis (John 16:33), “in Me ye may have peace”? Or what if they recognize the value of classical Latin to Western civilization, but they wish to learn both Christian and classical Latin at the same time, instead of only focusing on classical pagan authors to the exclusion of the writers of Christendom? A person who was alive when he invented this saying First it killed the Romans, now it’s killing me.” “Latin is dead, dead, dead as dead can be.
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