Books
Following are proposed texts for each of the respective courses. These lists are representative and subject to change.
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Please read the Gospel of Luke (any version) prior to Honors Orientation.
- Honors class of 2022, detailed information (including the following lists and forms) was sent to your GFU email address:
- Genesis
- The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Exodus - Deuteronomy
- Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, & Job
- Homer, The Illiad & The Odyssey
- Judges, 1-2 Samuel
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, & The Eumenides
- Sophocles, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, & Oedipus at
Colonnus - The Presocratics
- Plato, Timaeus,
Republic and Apology - Aristotle, Metaphysics
- Confucius, The Analects
- Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The list above is a representation only – it is not for the purpose of ordering textbooks.
- Virgil, The Aeneid
- Luke & Acts
- Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
- Cicero, On the Good Life
- The Gospel of John
- Sallust , Catiline's Conspiracy, The Jugurthine War, Histories
- Ovid, Metamorphoses
- Athanasius, On the Incarnation
- 1 -2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians
- Augustine, The Confessions & The City of God
- Saint Cyril of Alexandria, On the Unity of Christ
- The Bhagavad Gita
- Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
The list above is a representation only – it is not for the purpose of ordering textbooks.
- Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
- The Gospel of Matthew
- Benedict, The Rule
- The Psalms (1-90)
- Beowulf
- Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People
- The Dream of Rood
- John of Damascus, Three Treatises on the Divine Images
- The Qur'an
- Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed
- Al-Ghazali, The Rescuer from Error
- Anselm of Canterbury, Proslgion & Why God Became Man
- Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias
- John of Salisbury, Policraticus
- The Lais of Marie de France
- The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
- Francis and Clare of
Assisi, Complete Works - Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons & In Praise of the New Knighthood
- Chrétien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances
- Bonaventure, The Soul's Journey into God, the Tree of Life, the Life of St. Francis
- Jude and Revelation
- Buddhist Scriptures
The list above is a representation only – it is not for the purpose of ordering textbooks.
- St. Thomas Aquinas , Summa Theologica Selected Philosophical Writings
- Dante Alighieri, The Inferno
- William of Ockham, Philosophical Writings
- The Showings of Julian of Norwich
- Christine de Pizan, Book of the City of Ladies
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
- Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly and Other Writings
- Romans & II Corinthians
- Martin Luther, Lectures on Galatians, Two Kinds of Righteousness, Secular Authority: To What Extent it Should
be Obeyed - John Calvin, The Institutes of Christian Religion
- John Milton , Paradise Lost
- Rene Descartes , Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
- Francis Bacon , The Major Works
- William Shakespeare, King
Lear and Hamlet - The Arabian Nights
- George Fox , Journal
- Margaret Fell, The Life of Margaret Fell
- William Penn, No Cross, No Crown
The list above is a representation only – it is not for the purpose of ordering textbooks.
- Gospel of Mark
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
- Jonathan Edwards, Religious Affections
- John Wesley, The Scripture Way of Salvation
- David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
- John Woolman, Journal
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality
- English Romantic Poetry, (Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth)
- Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison, The Federalist Papers
- Immanuel Kant, To Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch
- Johann Wolfgang von
Geothe , Faust - Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- Jane Austen,
Pride and Prejudice - Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
- Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love
- Emily
Dickinson, selected poems - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
- Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto
- Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species and Descent of Man
- John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
- George Washington, Farewell Address
- Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
- John Greenleaf
Whittier, selected poems - Letter to the Hebrews
- Letter of James
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Crime and Punishment - Abraham Kuyper, Sphere Sovereignty
The list above is a representation only – it is not for the purpose of ordering textbooks.
- Friedrich Nietzche's, On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
- Max Weber's, Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
- William Jame's, The Will to Believe, Human Immortality, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
- G.K. Chesterton's, Orthodoxy
- Ernest Hemingway's , The Sun Also Rises
- Virginia Woolf's, A Room of One's Own
- Sigmund Freud's, Civilization and Its Discontents
- Jean-Paul Sartre's , Existentialism Is a Humanism
- Simone De Beauvoir's, The Second Sex (selections)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer's, The Cost of Discipleship
- Albert Camus', The Stranger
- C.S. Lewis's , The Abolition of Man
- Flannery
O’Connor, selected stories - Hannah Arendt's, The Human Condition
- Chinua Achebe's , Things Fall Apart
- Thomas Kuhn's , The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Mahatma Gandhi's, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
- Martin Luther King Jr.'s, I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
- Karl Barth's, Church Dogmatics (selections)
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez & Pablo Neruda, stories and poems
- Toni Morrison’s, Beloved
- John Paul II, Fides et
Ratio and Evangelium Vitae
The list above is a representation only – it is not for the purpose of ordering textbooks.
This course is intended to be the pinnacle of the honors program at George Fox University. Over the past four
As a culmination of this program, we ask you to contribute to the store of western knowledge. The contribution will usually take the form of a scholarly paper or work of art, but other possibilities may be negotiated with the director of the honors program and a faculty sponsor.
This project may be combined with another senior capstone project as long as all relevant parties agree on requirements. Normally, combined projects will need to be larger and/or more sophisticated than a single project.
