First Year: Fall Semester
Early Western Civilization Seminar (IDE 1103)
Author | Textbook | ISBN-13 | ISBN-10 |
Aristotle | Selected Works, 3rd.
(Nicomachean Ethics, Poetics, Categories, Rhetoric) |
9780911589139
|
0911589139
|
Cicero | On Duties | 9780521348355 | 0521348358 |
Homer | Odyssey | 9780140449112 | 0140449116 |
Plato | Republic
Timaeus and Critias |
9780872201361
9780140442618 |
0872201368
0140442618 |
Sophocles (Greek Tragedies) | Oedipus Rex
Antigone |
9780226307909 | 0226307905 |
First Year: Spring Semester
Church & Empires Seminar (IDE 1203)
Author | Textbook | ISBN-13 | ISBN-10 |
Athanasius | On The Incarnation | 9780913836408 | 0913836400 |
Augustine | Confessions | 9780800787240 | 0800787242 |
Aquinas | On Faith and Reason
On Being and Essence |
9780872204560
9780888442505 |
0872204561
0888442505 |
Anselm | Proslogion | 9780872205659 | 0872205657 |
Boethius | Consolation of Philosophy | 9780023464508 | 002346450X |
Virgil | The Aeneid | 9780199231959 | 0199231958 |
Trans. Kevin Crossley-Holland | Beowulf | 9780192723697 | 0192723693 |
Trans. Keith Harrison | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | 9780199540167 | 0199540167 |
Second Year: Fall Semester
World Religions Seminar (IDE 2103)
Religion | Textbook | ISBN-13 | ISBN-10 |
Buddhism | The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha | 9780451627117 | 0451627113 |
Confucianism | The Analects of Confucius | 9780679722960 | 0679722963 |
Hinduism | The Bhagavad-Gita | 9780915132355 | 0915132354 |
Islam | The Meaning of the Holy Qur’an | 9780915957323 | 0915957329 |
Judaism | The Talmud (Everyman’s Talmud) | 9780805210323 | 0805210326 |
***Some leeway has been given to choose other texts in the realm of world religions. You may choose from Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Shinto, Taoism, Sikhism, Jainism, and Baha’i. |
Second Year: Spring Semester
Renaissance and Reformation Seminar (IDE 2203)
Author | Textbook | ISBN-13 | ISBN-10 |
Dante Alighieri | The Divine Comedy | 9780199535644 | 0199535647 |
Calvin | Institutes of the Christian Religion | 9780801025242 | 0801025249 |
Luther | 95 Theses
The Babylonian Captivity of the Church The Freedom of a Christian |
9780800616397 |
0800616391 |
Erasmus | Praise of Folly | 9780140446081 | 0140446087 |
Molina | On Divine Foreknowledge: Part IV of the Concordia | 9780801489358 | 0801489350 |
More | Utopia | 9780140449105 | 0140449108 |
Machiavelli | The Prince | 9780199535699 | 0199535698 |
Jacob, Margaret C. | The Scientific Revolution: A Brief History with Documents | 9780312653491 | 0312653492 |
Shakespeare | Hamlet | 9780140714548
9780199536122 |
0140714545
0199536120 |
***Recommended strongly that C.S. Lewis’ work Discarded Image, 6th Edition, be used as an introduction to this seminar. |
Third Year: Fall Semester
Enlightenment Seminar (IDE 3103)
Author | Textbook | ISBN-13 | ISBN-10 |
Bunyan, John | Pilgrim’s Progress | 9780883680964 | 0883680963 |
Descartes, Rene | Discourse on Method | 9780140446999 | 0140446990 |
Locke, John | Two Treatises on Gov’t | 9780915144860 | 0915144867 |
Pascal, Blaise | Pensees (Christianity for Modern Pagans) | 9780898704525 | 0898704529 |
Rousseau, Jean | Emile | 9781591021117 | 1591021111 |
Wesley, John | Selected Works | 9780195028102 | 0195028104 |
***Recommend reading Jonathan Edwards’ Religions Affections corresponding history course. |
Third Year: Spring Semester
The 19th Century Seminar (IDE 3203)
Author | Textbook | ISBN-13 | ISBN-10 |
Darwin, Charles | Origin of the Species | 9781412018258 | 1412018250 |
Finney, Charles | Lectures on Revivals of Religion | 9781932370478 | 1932370471 |
Marx, Karl | The Communist Manifesto | 9781599869957 | 1599869950 |
Nietzsche, Friedrich | Beyond Good and Evil | 9780486298689 | 048629868X |
Spurgeon | Lectures to My Students (selected) | 9780310329114 | 0310329116 |
Tocqueville | Democracy in America,
Vol 2 |
9780872204942 | 0872204944 |
***Recommend reading the Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and other important political treatises in the corresponding history course. |
Fourth Year: Fall Semester
The Early 20th Century Seminar (IDE 4103)
Author | Textbook | ISBN-13 | ISBN-10 |
Chesterton, G.K. | Orthodoxy | 9780970377210 | 0970377215 |
Conrad, Joseph | Heart of Darkness | 9780393926361 | 0393926362 |
Dewey, John | Experience and Education | 9780684838281 | 0684838281 |
Eliot, T.S. | The Waste Land | 9780393974997 | 0393974995 |
Freud, Sigmund | Civilization and its Discontents (1989 ed.) | 9780393301588 | 0393301583 |
James, William | Pragmatism | 9780915145058 | 0915145057 |
Russell, Bertand | Why I am Not a Christian | 9780671203238 | 0671203231 |
***Recommend reading Churchhill’s Second World War in corresponding history course |
Fourth Year: Spring Semester
The Late 20th Century Seminar (IDE 4203)
Author | Textbook | ISBN-13 | ISBN-10 |
Barth, Karl | The Word of God and Theology | 9780567082275 | 056708227X |
Lewis, C.S. | Mere Christianity | 9780060652920 | 0060652926 |
Huxley, Aldous | Brave New World | 9780060776091 | 0060776099 |
Niebuhr, H. Richard | Christ and Culture | 9780061300035 | 0061300039 |
Vatican | Vatican II Texts (selected) | 9780918344373 | 0918344379 |
Derrida | Deconstruction in a Nutshell | 9780823217557 | 0823217558 |
***Recommend reading Between Heaven and Hell by Peter Kreeft in the corresponding history course. |