Issue 13 Jan Amos Comenius

Introducing Jan Amos Comenius

Three paintings that put Comenius’s life and times in perspective.

Fascinating facts about Comenius and his times.

The pain and damage of Christian divisions and international warfare affected Comenius and his church both directly and disastrously: His prodigious energy and gifts were obsessively employed to change the way the world and church worked.

Where were the Moravians all those years?

Three big names in the Unity of the Brethren.

Jan Amos Comenius was acquainted with scholars, kings, churchmen, businessmen, ordinary and extraordinary men who profoundly influenced his life as he also influenced theirs.

Jan Amos Comenius and Rene Descartes

Christian History Magazine is pleased to present the comments of a Czech scholar, fellow countryman, and student of Comenius.

When Christians slaughtered Christians without let up.

Every child in a modern education system owes a debt to Comenius.

Chronology of events associated with the life of Comenius.

The Educational Legacy of Jan Amos Comenius.

Comenius was an observant educator.

A synopsis of the imaginative work of Comenius.

As Comenius saw it, education was the best way out of the Thirty Years War.

This early work of Comenius’s concentrates on the first six years of a childs life.

Excerpts from Comenius’s masterwork on education.

How did Comenius view the sciences?

Resources for further study of Comenius, his teachings, and his times.