World Lit
Coming 2022
The significant thoughts of every society are recorded for posterity in the literature they leave behind. From the earliest Scripture to the latest novel on the best-sellers list, a reader can deduce the most important characteristics about a culture and its people simply by taking a leisurely stroll through the words that represent their thoughts and experiences. We will begin early in Western Civilization, looking at the foundational works which become the bar to which every author coming after must rise and respond.
In this course, students will join the great conversation as they respond to great literature. By taking up the gauntlet thrown down by the greatest thinkers of history, students will find it necessary to peer into the corners of their own minds, looking there to see what it is that they think! In fact, as we probe ideas and concepts students may never have considered, they may find it necessary to spin a new thought from only the formative materials of faith and reason they have at hand.
That is exactly my goal.
Industria est initium sapientiae. Work is the beginning of wisdom!
In this course, students will join the great conversation as they respond to great literature. By taking up the gauntlet thrown down by the greatest thinkers of history, students will find it necessary to peer into the corners of their own minds, looking there to see what it is that they think! In fact, as we probe ideas and concepts students may never have considered, they may find it necessary to spin a new thought from only the formative materials of faith and reason they have at hand.
That is exactly my goal.
Industria est initium sapientiae. Work is the beginning of wisdom!