Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Our final slate of texts and meetings will be as follows:


Thursday, December 4, 7:45PM

G. K. Chesterton, The Ball and the Cross


Thursday, February 5, 7:45 PM

William Shakespeare, The Tempest


Thursday, March 5, 7:45 PM

St. Anselm, Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man)

This is a classic work in which St. Anselm presents an enduring theory regarding the logic of God choosing to ground our salvation on the incarnation, passion, and death of Christ.


Thursday, April 9, 7:45 PM

Mary Shivanandan, Crossing the Threshold of Love: A New Vision of Marriage, Part I

We will use this text to explore St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.


Thursday, May 7, 7:45 PM

Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

We will use this text to understand and critique one of Christianity’s most robust interlocutors.


Thursday, June 11, 7:45 PM

St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

We will omit meeting in July and will resume in August with the following texts:

  • For Thursday, August 7, 7:45PM:


Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.  Any translation is acceptable, but the preferred one would be that produced by J.R.R. Tolkien.

  • For Thursday, September 4, 7:45PM:


C.S. Lewis, Pilgrim’s Regress

  • For Thursday, October 2, 7:45PM:


G.K. Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas

  • For Thursday, November 6, 7:45PM:



C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

Monday, April 7, 2014

Here are the texts that we will consider for our next two sessions:

Thursday, May 8, 7:45 P.M.:

St. Anselm, Proslogion.  This is the work in which St. Anselm proposes his famous ontological argument for the existence of God.  An online translation may be found at:

Thursday, June 5, 7:45 P.M.:


Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.  Although not an explicitly religious work, Austen’s Pride and Prejudice offers an opportunity to examine the way we form and act on judgments regarding others.