2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Apr 27, 2024  
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CATH 4013 - Contemporary Catholic Classics


Credits: 3
Among the works read this semester will be: John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University and selections from his Parochial and Plain Sermons; Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Wreck of the Deutschland; T. S. Elliot, The Wasteland; William Shakespeare, King Lear; Paul Claudel, The Tidings Brought to Mary; George Bernanos, The Diary of a Country Priest; Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited; G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man; Graham Greene, Monsignor Quixote; Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness; Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find; J. F. Powers, Collected Stories; Alice Thomas Ellis, The Sin Eater; and Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate. In addition to regularly scheduled class sessions, this class meets for an extra hour each week, either to memorize poetry, go stargazing, practice calligraphy, or serve at the Lord’s Diner along with other opportunities for encountering the Good, the True, and the Beautiful. (course number previously 4013).

Offering: As Needed