Christopher Perrin, MDiv, PhD, is the CEO with Classical Academic Press, and a national leader, author, and speaker for the renewal of classical education. Chris studied history and classics at the University of South Carolina, then studied for his M.Div at Westminster Seminary in California, and then his PhD in apologetics at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He was also a special student in literature at St. Johns College in Annapolis, MD.
After serving for three years as a high-school and college pastor, Christopher became the founding headmaster of a classical Christian School in Harrisburg, PA where he served from 1997-2007 before becoming the CEO with Classical Academic Press.
Christopher is the author of An Introduction to Classical Education: A Guide for Parents, Greek for Children Primer A, The Scholé Way: Bringing Restful Learning Back to School and Homeschool, The Good Teacher: Ten Key Pedagogical Principles that Will Transform Your Teaching, and co-author of the Latin for Children series. He is the host of a podcast on renewal of classical education, The Christopher Perrin Show, and writes regularly on his Substack newsletter, Renewing Classical Education.
In his work as Classical Academic Press, Christopher has collaborated with numerous leaders in the classical education renewal, publishing some leading books by these leaders including The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education (by Kevin Clark and Ravi Jain), Myth Made Fact (by Louis Markos), Common Arts Education: Renewing the Classical Tradition of Training the Hands, Head, and Heart (by Christopher Hall); The Lost Seeds of Learning: Grammar, Logic, and Rhetoric as Life-Giving Arts (by Phil Donnelly), and many more.
After serving for three years as a high-school and college pastor, Christopher became the founding headmaster of a classical Christian School in Harrisburg, PA where he served from 1997-2007 before becoming the CEO with Classical