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.
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Atheist Delusions
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).
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