Books
The following list is a representation only – it is not for the purpose of ordering textbooks.
The Freshman Year
HNRS 150: Origins: Athens and Jerusalem (Fall)
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- The Book of Genesis
- The Book of Exodus
- The Books of Samuel
- The Book of Job
- The Book of Proverbs
- The Book of Isaiah
- A Presocratics Reader
- Plato, Timaeus
- Plato, Apology
- Plato, Euthyphro
- Plato, The Republic
- Homer, Iliad
- Homer, Odyssey
- Aeschylus, The Oresteia
- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex & Antigone
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
- Aristotle, Metaphysics (selections)
- Confucius, The Analects
- Lao Tzu, Tao de Ching
- Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus
HNRS 190: Rome Through Early Church (Spring)
- Lucretius, On the Nature of the Universe
- Virgil, Aeneid
- Cicero, On the Good Life
- The Buddhist Scriptures
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- Epictetus, Discourses
- Tacitus, The Annals (selections)
- The Book of Leviticus
- The Gospel of Luke
- The Gospel of John
- The Acts of the Apostles
- Epistle to the Galatians
- Epistle to the Philippians
- First Epistle to the Corinthians
- Epistle to the Hebrews
- Ovid, Metamorphoses (selections)
- Origen, On First Principles (Book IV)
- Augustine, The Confessions
- Augustine, City of God (selections)
- The Bhagavad Gita
- Kalidasa, The Recognition of Sakuntala
- Eusebius, The History of the Church (selections)
- Athanasius, On the Incarnation
- Cyril, On the Unity of Christ
- The Nicene Creed
- The Chalcedonian Creed
Sophmore Year
HNRS 250: Medieval Western Civilization (Fall)
- Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
- Pseudo-Dionysius, The Divine Names and The Mystical Theology
- Porphyry, Isagoge
- The Gospel of Matthew
- Beowulf
- The Psalms
- The Talmud (selections)
- Bede the Venerable, Ecclesiastical History of the English People (selections)
- The Qu’ran
- The Rule of Saint Benedict
- John of Damascus, Treatise on Divine Images
- Hildegard of Bingen, selected writings
- Bernard of Clairvaux, On Conversion & On Loving God
- Anselm, Proslogion, Why God Became Man
- Al-Ghazali, The Rescuer from Error
- Ibn TuFayl, Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān
- Moses Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed
- Marie de France, Lais
- Abelard and Heloise, Selected Letters
- Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (selections)
- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
- Bonaventure, The Journey of the Mind to God
HNRS 290: Late Medieval and Early Modern Western Civilization (Spring)
- Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love
- Christine de Pizan, The Book of City of Ladies
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
- Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise of Folly
- Epistle to the Romans
- The Epistle of James
- Martin Luther, selected writings
- John Calvin, The Institutes (selections)
- John Milton, Paradise Lost
- René Descartes, Meditations
- Francis Bacon, New Organon
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (selections)
- William Shakespeare, Othello and Henry V (selected plays may vary)
- John Locke, Second Treatise
- One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (selections)
- William Penn, Some Fruits of Solitude
- George Fox, selected writings
- Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises
- Teresa of Ávila, The
- Galileo Galilei, “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina”
- Isaac Newton, selected writings on natural philosophy
- Bartolome de las Casas, The Destruction of the Indies
- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, selected writings
- Blaise Pascal, Pensées
The Junior Year
HNRS 350: Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries(Fall or Spring)
- The Gospel of Mark
- Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections
- John Wesley, “The Scripture Way of Salvation”
- David Hume, An Enquiry Regarding Human Understanding
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality
- The Journal of John Woolman
- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (selections)
- The Federalist Papers (selections)
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man
- The Declaration of Independence
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- Selected poems from Blake, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Coleridge
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Immanuel Kant, Grounding for Metaphysics of Morals
- Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- Epistle to Philemon
- Henry Thoreau, Walden
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
- Soren Kierkegaard, Fear & Trembling and Works of Love
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
- Charles Darwin, Origin of Species and The Descent of Man (selections)
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
- Thérèse of Lisieux, The Story of a Soul
- Emily Dickinson, selected poems
The Senior Year
HNRS 450: Twentieth Century
- William James, The Will to Believe
- Simone Weil, Waiting for God
- Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- W.E.B. DuBois, Souls of Black Folk
- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
- T.S. Eliot, “Choruses from the Rock”
- Karl Barth, Epistle to the Romans
- Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
- Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (selections)
- Albert Camus, The Stranger
- The Book of Ecclesiastes
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
- C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
- Dorothy Sayers, Are Women Human?
- Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (selections)
- Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
- Mahatma Gandhi, Autobiography (selections)
- Martin Luther King Jr., Selected Letters and Speeches
- The Book of Micah
- Shūsaku Endō, Silence
- Václav Havel, “Forgetting We are Not God”
- Thomas Kuhn, Structures of Scientific Revolutions (selections)
- Flannery O’Connor, Selected Stories
- Toni Morrison, Beloved
- John Paul II, Fides et Ratio
- The Barmen Declaration
- The Kairos Document
- The First Epistle of John
HNRS 490: Integration Thesis
- Charles Taylor, A Secular Age
