Christopher Hurtado's Commonplace Blog

Commonplaces from The Essential Petrarch by Petrarch and Peter Hainsworth

Posted on January 15th, 2021

Poems from the Canzionere Part I 1 19-20 Cf. Fire and Ice by Robert Frost 28 34 This sonnet was adapted by Chau...

Commonplaces from Two Faces of Oedipus by Frederick Ahl

Posted on January 6th, 2021

Introduction Most of ustunderstand that diseases are not caused by unsolved murders in the distant past and cured by...

Commonplaces from Joseph Smith by Richard Lyman Bushman

Posted on December 30th, 2020

He was confused by the failings of the Christians in the town. Like his mother earlier, he was aware of more hypocris...

Commonplaces from Joseph Smith by Richard Lyman Bushman

Posted on December 28th, 2020

He was confused by the failings of the Christians in the town. Like his mother earlier, he was aware of more hypocris...

Commonplaces from Introduction to Sufi Doctrine by Titus Burckhardt

Posted on December 22nd, 2020

In contrast to the theologians and jurists, they tried to dissolve dogmatic knots in the soul. They did everything th...

Commonplaces from The Way of Myth by Fraser Boa

Posted on December 19th, 2020

1 Gods 9 When you look at the popular picture of life in America — what the media presents—it’s all wrong wall mater...

Commonplaces from The Human Condition by Thomas Keating

Posted on December 13th, 2020

The Human Condition 7 Where are you? This is one of the great questions of all time. It is the focus of the first ha...

Commonplaces from Immortal Diamond by Richard Rohr

Posted on December 5th, 2020

Most spirituality has said, in one way or another, that we have all indeed begun to forget, if not fully forgotten, w...

Commonplaces from De Vulgari Eloquentia by Dante Alighieri

Posted on November 4th, 2020

Let everyone, then, take care to understand precisely what Iam 9 stating; and, if they still undertake to write poetr...

Commonplaces from The Song of the Cid by Anonymous, Maria Rosa Menocal

Posted on October 14th, 2020

"My humble greetings, ladies! I’ve won you at great rewards: You took care of Valencia, and I conquered on the battl...
Christopher Hurtado

Christopher Hurtado has over twenty-five years' experience teaching a broad range of subjects. He is self-taught in the classics, holds a Bachelor's in Middle East Studies/Arabic and Philosophy from Brigham Young University, and an MA in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey. He is a serial entrepreneur with startup and takeover/turnaround experience in various industries. He has varying degrees of fluency in twelve languages and has lived and traveled abroad extensively. He lives in Mapleton, Utah with his wife, Alysia, and their children.