What We Read

  • The Iliad by Homer
  • The Odyssey by Homer
  • The Oresteia by Aeschylus
  • Three Theban Plays by Sophocles
  • The Bacchae by Euripides
  • Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
  • Meno, Phaedo, Apology, Symposium, Euthyphro, Republic, Tiimaeus by Plato
  • Physics by Aristotle
  • Rhetoric by Aristotle
  • Metaphysics by Aristotle
  • The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
  • selections from the Lives by Plutarch
  • The Aeneid by Virgil
  • Metamorphoses by Ovid
  • The Orator, selected essays by Cicero
  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  • selections by The Apostolic Fathers
  • First Apology, Second Apology by Justin Martyr
  • Apology by Tertullian
  • Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching by Irenaeus
  • History of the Christian Church by Eusebius
  • On the Incarnation by Athanasius
  • The Five Theological Orations by Gregory of Nazianzus
  • On the Unity of Christ by Cyril of Alexandria
  • Apostles Creed, Nicene Creed, Definition of Chalcedon
  • selections from City of God by Augustine
  • On Christian Teaching by Augustine
  • Confessions by Augustine
  • Enchiridion on Faith Hope and Love, On the Teacher by Augustine
  • Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
  • Divine Names, Mystical Theology, Celestial Hierarchy by Pseudo-Dionysius
  • Why God Became Man by Anselm of Canterbury
  • Ethics by Peter Abelard
  • Selections from the Summa Theologiae by Thomas Aquinas
  • Soul's Journey into God, Tree of Life, Life of Francis by Bonaventure
  • Inferno by Dante
  • Purgatory by Dante
  • Paradise by Dante
  • selections from The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
  • The Praise of Folly by Erasmus
  • Lectures on Galatians, Heidelberg Disputation, Two Kinds of Righteousness, Small Catechism, Freedom of a Christian by Martin Luther
  • Selections from the Institutes by John Calvin
  • The Heidelberg Catechism by Ursinus and Olevianus
  • The 39 Articles, The Westminster Confession, The Dordrecht Confession, Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, The Schleitheim Confession
  • The Prince by Machiavelli
  • Utopia by Thomas More
  • The New Organon by Francis Bacon
  • On Gravitation, The Principia by Isaac Newton
  • Book I of the Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
  • Macbeth, King Lear, Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  • Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V by William Shakespeare
  • Julius Ceasar by William Shakespeare
  • Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
  • As You Like It by William Shakespeare
  • selected poems by John Donne
  • Centuries of Meditations by Thomas Traherne
  • selected poems by George Herbert
  • The Creation by Franz Joseph Haydn
  • selections from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
  • Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes
  • Pensees by Blaise Pascal
  • Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
  • Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained by John Milton
  • selections from Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
  • Treatise on Government by John Locke
  • Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
  • Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
  • Reason in History by Georg Willhelm Hegel
  • Apology, On the Essence of Religion, On Self-Formation for Religion by Freidrich Schleiermacher
  • A Practical View of Christianity by William Wilberforce
  • The Religious Affections, The End for Which God Created the World by Jonathan Edwards
  • Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, selected essays by Immanuel Kant
  • Marriage of Heaven and Hell, selected poems by William Blake
  • selected poems by S. T. Coleridge
  • The Prelude, selected poems by William Wordsworth
  • Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  • Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
  • Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
  • On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  • Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
  • Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
  • Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
  • selected essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • selected short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  • Narrative by Frederick Douglass
  • Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
  • selected speeches and writings by Abraham Lincoln
  • selected short stories by Henry James
  • Heresies, Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
  • The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
  • Collected Poems by T. S. Eliot
  • The Idea of a University by John Henry Newman
  • How We Think by John Dewey
  • Selected Poems by Robert Frost
  • Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre
  • Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis
  • selected short stories by Flannery O'Connor