NancyNellen Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Hello all, I am in the process of planning a year-long jaunt into Christian Literature to do alongside my 10th and 9th graders this year. I am building my spreadsheet for resources and, while I have a few, I wondered if any of you had some suggestions that may compliment the following list. I have some Teaching Co. courses, including the Dante course, The Western Literary Canon in Context, and Augustine. I also have the following books: 25 Books Every Christian Should Read and Invitation to the Classics, which include notes on a few on my list. Below are the works we hope to get through in the next 12 months. Do any of you have any suggestions for additional resources to flesh out any/all of them? Thanks! Augustine: Confessions Dante: The Divine Comedy Thomas a Kempis: Imitation of Christ Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion Spencer: The Faerie Queen Donne: Selected Poems Pascal: Pensees Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress Herbert: The Temple (Selected Poems) Brother Lawrence: The Practice of the Presence of God Milton: Paradise Lost Edwards: Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God Henry: Apologia pro vita sua Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov Spurgeon: The Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon Chesterton: Orthodoxy Hopkins, G.M.: Selected Poems Weil: Waiting for God Lewis: The Screwtape Letters, Mere Christianity Tozer: The Knowledge of the Holy Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Discipleship King, ML: Letters from a Birmingham Jail Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendybern Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 I have a Christian lit course by Deborah Bell that I never got around to using. Interested? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplelily Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery: Eric Metaxas Bonhoffer:Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy Eric Metaxas Anne Bradstreet Poetry Hymns of Fanny Crosby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happygrrl Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Don't forget the Christian East; I would include some writings of the Desert Fathers and Homilies of John Chrysostom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Uncle Tom's Cabin would be another book to consider. Not only rife with Christian imagery, but also uses appeals to Christianity to argue against slavery. I think you may need to pare the list down some in the end. Eta: I might also suggest In His Steps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candid Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 You list some works that strike me as more literary and some that are more theological in nature. You may wish to decide if you want one or the other or both. And you may wish to decide if you want to hit the major high lights of the theological course or not. I say this because if you do want to hit theological high points you've missed some or chosen the wrong work. Augustine's Confessions, for instance, is popularly read in lit courses, but it's his City of God that people say influenced a 1000 years of Christian theology. You are also missing Aquinas and Luther both of whom have some big theological work to put on the table. On the other hand maybe you want lit and work of personal reflection which means you keep Augustine's Confessions and jettison Calvin's Institutes. Neither course is correct, they're just different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KarenNC Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 IIRC, Hewitt Homeschooling's Lightning Lit series has a Christian literature course for high school that might give some ideas. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get their webpage loaded at the moment, or I'd give more info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Another piece of literature to consider would be Pearl, a medieval allegory that is often sold in a book with Sir Orfeo and Sir Gwaine and the Green Knight. My translation is by Tolkien. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted July 12, 2012 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Brothers Karamozov is a great book, but I'm not sure that the majority of the story would fit your criteria. You might want to consider reading just the section on The Grand Inquisitor, which can stand as a short story within the novel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyNellen Posted July 14, 2012 Author Share Posted July 14, 2012 Thanks for all of your help/input! I definitely need to pare down, as my desire is to really sink our teeth into some of them. It is my desire to focus on the literature aspect, moreso than the theological. I've decided to drop Calvin, Spencer, and Pascal. I will probably add in some short readings of the Desert Fathers and perhaps Uncle Tom's Cabin (I had not thought of that selection at all...thanks for the recommendation, Sebastion!) Thanks for your help. I am trying to think outside the box here and cater to my kid's interests while helping them to grow spiritually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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