Today is the first day of classes! Based on this list of authors, try to guess the two courses I am teaching this semester:
Antiquity:
- Augustine
- Plato
- St. Luke
- Jesus of Nazareth
- Council of Nicea
- St. Paul
18th Century:
- Benjamin Franklin
- Thomas Bernard
- George Washington
- Patrick Henry
- John Dickinson
- Gouverneur Morris
- Thomas Paine
- Benjamin Rush
- Abigail Adams
- John Adams
- William Tennent
- James Madison
- Thomas Jefferson
19th Century:
- John Henry Newman
20th Century:
- Janes Weldon Johnson
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Harold Bender
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Albert Schweitzer
- Dorothy Sayers
Late 20th and 21st Century
- Gordon Wood
- Gary Nash
- Fred Anderson
- Rosemarie Zagarri
- P.J. Marshall
- Benjamin Carp
- Brendan McConville
- David Armitage
- Elaine Crane
- Manisha Sinha
- Michael McConnell
- Christopher Brown
- Jon Butler
- Mark Noll
- Stanley Hauerwas
- Ernest Boyer
- Bruce Birch
- Alice Walker
- Robert Putnam
- Desmond Tutu
- Henri Nouwen
- Jerry Sittser
Wow, John! I’m jealous. The first may explore how ancients and thinkers in the early Republic wrestled with theology in the public square.
Does the second course pick up where the first left off (Begins with Cardinal Newman)?
Thanks, John for doing so much to equip young minds to think like historians and Christ followers!
Thanks, Chris. Not exactly. I will reveal shortly!
Is the first course on Christianity, theology, in the ancient world and today; is the second course on American intellectual history?
Good reading lists
John G.
OK, time to spill the beans. I am teaching an upper-level seminar on the American Revolution and course called “Created and Called for Community.” The later is Messiah’s course on the introduction to the liberal arts. I have written extensively about this course over the years:
https://currentpub.com/tag/created-and-called-for-community/
Just read your March 2021 blog about discussing “Letter from the Birmingham Jail.”. I often ask my students how such theologically-based arguments as one finds here and in other works by King would be received today. I am finding that King is often coopted in ways similar to Bonhoeffer. Some try to turn him into an evangelical while others focus on his radicalism. Both fail to contextualize these men and their ideas.