Books
Following are proposed texts for each of the respective courses. These lists are representative and subject to change.
Before the Fall 2017 Honors Orientation, please read the following book and then bring it to orientation.
- Augustine's, The Confessions (Vintage Books, ISBN: 0375700218)
- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
