Modern Resources

Introduction

• Definitions & Characteristics of Modernity
• Modernity & Visualizing the Person
• Aspects of Various Periods in the Western Tradition

Imperialism-WWI

• Complete Poems of Rudyard Kipling (website)
• Images of Imperialism
• Euro-American Colonial Expansion
• World War I Key Events
• Additional World War I Maps
• In Flanders Field: First World War Poetry, Experience, and Worldview

Chesterton

• Chesterton's  The Man Who Was Thursday (1908): Heresy, Anarchy, Madness, Egoism
• Three Rival Methods of Pursuing Truth
• The Man Who Was Thursday & the Problem of Evil

Freud

• A Biblical Model of Personhood
• Introduction to Freud's Theory (website)
• Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
• The Future of Freud's De/Il-lusions
• Utopian Dreams & Pessimistic Distrust in Freud's Hopes for Science

Dawson

• Overview of Argument for  Progress and Religion Chapters 1 thru 3
• Additional Questions for  Progress and Religion

Lewis

• An Allegorical Apology: C. S. Lewis’s  The Pilgrim’s Regress (1933)

WWII, Wiesel, 

• World War II Key Events
• Timeline of the Holocaust (weblink)
• Jewish Views of the Holocaust
• Christian Responses to the Holocaust
• Elie Wiesel on Memory, Prayer, Protest, Suffering, and God
• Elie Wiesel's  Night: Discussion Questions
• Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity (website)
• "Hope, Despair, and Memory" (Elie Wiesel's 1986 Noble Prize Lecture)

Bonhoeffer

• An Overview of the  Ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Eliot

• Life of T.S. Eliot (website)
• Eliot on Tradition, Poetry, Faith, and Culture
• The Structure of  The Four Quartets
• Burnt Norton Commentary
• East Coker Commentary
• The Dry Salvages Commentary
• Little Gidding Commentary
• Tradition and Eternity in  Little Gidding

Malraux

• Introduction to Malraux
• André Malraux & The Antagonism of Art
• Picasso's Mask : Discussion Questions

Arendt

• The Active Life and the Human Condition

H. Richard Niebuhr

• Ethics and History in Niebuhr's Christ and Culture

Wittgenstein

• Introduction to Wittgenstein (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
• Wittgenstein's  Philosophical Investigations: A Basic Introduction
• Assessing the Investigation: Wittgenstein's Silence and Action Before Ethics and God
• Commentary on the First 100 Investigations (Lois Shawver)
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus  (hypertext edition)
• Lecture on Ethics
• Lectures on Philosophy 1932-1935
• Wittgenstein Links (metalinks page)

Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Letter from a Birmingham Jail  Overview
• A Call for Unity Text and Background

Kuhn

• Brief Notes Toward Understanding Kuhn's Importance
• Model-Based Reasoning & Thomas Kuhn
• Overview & Questions on Thomas Kuhn's 1969 Postscript to  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Post-Kuhnian Models of the Practice of Science
• The Scientific Method: An Overview

Cold War 

• Akhmatova,  Requiem ( Version 1,  Version 2)
• Suffering, the Cross, and Remembrance

Late Modern/ Post-Modern Authors

Soyinka

• The Problem of Cultural Representation
• Colonialism and Christianity
• Biblical Theology and Post-Colonialism (Optional readings if interested)
• Soyinka, Ogun, and Christ in  Death and the King's Horseman

Dillard

• Seeing and Stalking the Action of Creation
• The Problem of Natural Evil

Havel

• Havel and Personal Responsibility
• Havel and The Power of the Powerless

MacIntyre

• After Virtue Outline and Commentary
• Ethics along the Lines of Ontology and Epistemology

Walcott

• Introduction to Walcott
• The Muse of History
• "Fragments of the Antilles" (optional) & outline
• Introduction to  Omeros
• Outline of  Omeros, Books One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven
• Omeros: Caribbean Epic?
• Questions about  Omeros' General Message
• Omeros' Diverse View of History

Pamuk

• Empires of the Middle East (moving graphic)
• "My Father's Suitcase" (Nobel Lecture)
• "Freedom to Write" (PEN Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture)
• "The Anger of the Damned" (Response to 9/11)
• Windows into Pamuk's Hüzün