During 2015 I had the great fortune of reading some unusually awesome books in class, either in their entirety or in small snippets selected by professors. A partial listing is included here.
GK Chesterton and Catholicism (A theology course about the expansive Christianity of the prince of puns; the following works are all his, except where noted)
- The Napoleon of Notting Hill
- The Ball and the Cross
- Tremendous Trifles
- The Blatchford Controversies
- Heretics
- The Well and the Shallows (incl. "My Six Conversions," "The Return to Religion," "The Ascetic at Large," "The Last Turn," "Babies and Distributism," "Church and Agoraphobia," "Reflections on a Rotten Apple," "A Century of Emancipation," "Sex and Property")
- What's Wrong with the World (incl. "Family and the Common Man," "The Superstition of Divorce," and "Eugenics and Other Evils")
- Orthodoxy
- Everlasting Man
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- St. Francis of Assisi
- Where All Roads Lead
- The Thing: Why I am a Catholic
- The Size of Chesterton's Catholicism by David W. Fagerberg
Christian Theological Traditions I (Another theo course, this one focusing on pre-Reformation Christian writings)
- Early Christian Writings, ed. A. Louth
- St. Anselm of Canterbury's Prayers and Meditations
- On the Incarnation of the Word by St. Athanasius of Alexandria
- St. Augustine's Confessions
- St. Benedict's Rule
- St. Bonaventure's Journey of the Mind to God
- On the Sacraments by Cyril of Jerusalem
- Sayings of the Early Christian Monks, composed of sayings of the Desert Fathers
- St. Gregory of Nazianzus's On God and Christ
- St. Irenaeus of Lyons's On the Apostolic Preaching
- Select Writings of Origen, ed. R. Greer
- Paul Evdokimov's Ages of the Spiritual Life
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