Piety
Love the Richard Weaver quote. Piety- duty, love and respect owed to God, parents and
communal authorities past and present.
It is faithfulness to one’s relationships and commitment to one’s
traditions. Beautifully said. This chapter fits well with “Slow
Church.” Piety is found in the
first four commandments as well as the fifth as the fifth is the first to deal
with social piety. The Greek and Roman
cultures seem to have understood the necessity of piety as a part of natural
law. The Aquinas reference nicely
brings together piety in terms of our love for God and our patriarchs and
matriarchs. It also can be summed
up in the two greatest commandments.
Piety, however, is not just another virtue but the highest of virtues
and is also a gift from God. Because
piety is a foundational virtue for Christians it is a schools responsibility to
build on that foundation.
In past cultures they were intentional in passing on their
traditions by way of education.
The authors rightly point out that we no longer have a culture to
transmit. The case does not need
to be made to Christians that an impious culture cannot be sustained.
The end point is so important. Piety begins in the home and is supported and nourished in
the school. The school cannot
effectively replace the home in providing a pious foundation nor should it ever
undermine it.
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