Institutions of Divine and Secular Learning was written in the 6th century A.D. by Roman educator Cassiodorus Senator.

This classic work is notable for being the first Christian guidebook for the Seven Liberal Arts: The Trivium of Grammar, Dialectic and Rhetoric; and The Quadrivium of Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy and Music.

Christian classical education has become very popular in recent years. Many homeschool families are now following the "Trivium" approach to education, as first explained by Dorothy Sayers in 1947. Cassiodorus's "Institutes" would be a valuable source for Christian Classical Homeschool parents who wish to "drink from the font" of classical education.

In the first book, Cassiodorus provides brief recommendations of the best Bible commentaries available in this time. To the modern reader, this section could be a useful guide to the so-called "church fathers" -- Bible commentators such as Augustine, Jerome and Chrysostem -- whose brilliant expositions of the Scripture are still relevant today.

In the second book, Cassiodorus outlines "the seven headings of secular letters," later known as "The Seven Liberal Arts." Though Cassiodorus does not use the terms "Trivium" and "Quadrivium," summaries of the arts of Grammar, Rhetoric, Dialectic, Arithmetic, Music, Geometry and Astronomy are set forth for the first time in an explicitly Christian work.

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