Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Atheist Delusions

For our next meeting, which will take place on January 4, at 7:45 P.M., we will be discussing David Bentley Hart's Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).  This is a spirited critique of certain modern misunderstandings of reality in general and Christianity in particular.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Rising to the Challenge

Our great books seminar meets next on Tuesday, December 7, at 7:45 P.M. and will discuss G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy.  The text may be downloaded for free from Project Gutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/130

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

From the Grey Town to Reality

Our Great Books seminar continues at St. Alphonsus on Tuesday, November 2, at 7:45 P.M. with C.S. Lewis's minor classic, The Great Divorce.  Lewis came up with the title in response to William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.  In this work, Lewis examines the nature of the choices that lead either to heaven or to hell.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Into the Dismal Abyss

The next meeting of the St. Alphonsus Great Books seminar will be on Tuesday, October 5, at 7:45 P.M. in the Rectory Common Room (second floor).  The text we will be discussing is the "Inferno" from Dante's Divine Comedy.  Recommended (but not required) translations include the Ciardi (published by Norton Press) and the Mandelbaum (Everyman's Library).