Readings during the Spring semester continue from modernity to the present day, and emphasize Christian trans-Atlantic migration, bioethics and the state of Evangelical Christianity in the present American context.
Pensees, by Blaise Pascal (Penguin Classics)
The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith (Harlan Davidson)
Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville (Vintage Classics)
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Penguin Classics)
Narrative of the Life of an American Slave, by Frederick Douglas (Bedford / St. Martins Press)
Rerum Novarum, by Leo XIII (Pauline Books)
The Four Loves, by C.S. Lewis (Harcourt Brace)
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (Perennial)
I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches, by Martin Luther King Jr. (Harper San Francisco)
The Complete Short Stories, by Flannery O'Connor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
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