Dr. Jonathan McIntosh
about the teacher
Dr. McIntosh is a philosopher, Tolkien scholar, and teaching elder. He has over twenty years of experience teaching junior high, high school, undergraduate and graduate students in a variety of settings--Christian higher ed, Christian day-school, homeschool co-ops, online programs, and the Church. He earned his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Dallas (2009) and is the author of The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie (Angelico Press, 2017). He, his wife Annie, have four daughters (and currently one granddaughter).
Teaching Philosophy
My teaching philosophy is literally to teach philosophy, the love of wisdom, or the knowledge of the order of things, of how to reason back to first principles, and then to reason back again.
Statement of Faith
I believe in the Lord, the origin or first cause of all existence, who eternally subsists in three persons, Father, Son and Spirit, and who reveals Himself in all that He has made and all that He does, in His holy Scriptures, and above all in His Incarnate Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, by whom all things were made and then remade in His Death and Resurrection, and who is the sovereign Lord of History that will …