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Check out some of the texts being used in the Life and Thought seminars.
Early Western Civilization
Aristotle – Rhetoric
Aristotle – Nichomachean Ethics
Plato – Republic
Plato – Timaeus and Critias
Sophocles – Oedipus Rex
Sophocles – Antigone
Church and Empires Seminar
Athanasius – On the Incarnation
Augustine – Confessions
Augustine – The City of God
Cicero – On Duties
World Religions Seminar
Buddhism – The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha
Confucianism – The Analects of Confucius
Hinduism – The Bhagavad Gita
Islam – The Meaning of the Holy Qur’an
Judaism – The Talmud
Renaissance and Reformation Seminar
Aquinas – Summa Theologiae
John Calvin – Institutes of the Christian Religion
Copernicus – On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
Luther/Erasmus
Hubmaier – On the Christian Baptism of Believers
Habmaier – Catechism
Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince
William Shakespeare – Hamlet
C.S. Lewis – The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
Enlightenment and Romantic Seminar
John Bunyan – Pilgrim’s Progress
Rene Descartes – Discourse on Method
John Locke – Two Treatises on Gov’t
Blaise Pascal – Pensees
Jean Rousseau – Emile
John Wesley – Selected Works
Jonathan Edwards – Religious Affections
The 19th Century Seminar
Charles Darwin – On The Origin of Species
Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Brothers Karamazov
Charles Finney – Lectures on Revivals of Religion
Karl Marx – The Communist Manifesto
Friedrich Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil
Charles Spurgeon – Lectures to My Students
Alexis de Tocqueville – Democracy in America
Declaration of Independence
US Constitution
The Early 20th Century Seminar
G. K. Chesterton – Orthodoxy
Joseph Conrad – Heart of Darkness
John Dewey – Experience and Education
T. S. Eliot – The Waste Land
Sigmund Freud – Civilization and Its Discontents
William James – Pragmatism
Bertrand Russell – Why I am Not a Christian
Churchill’s – Second World War
The Late 20th Century Seminar
Karl Barth – The Word of God and the Word of Man
C.S. Lewis – Mere Christianity
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
H. Richard Niebuhr – Christ and Culture
Vatican II Texts
J. F. Lyotard – Selected Works
Peter Kreeft – Between Heaven and Hell
