I enjoyed seeing the list of authors studied in the overview of the history of ideas at the College at Southwestern. Rather than filing it away in a word doc to come back to, I decided to post it here since it might interest others as well:
First Year
Early Western Civilization
Aristotle
Plato
Sophocles
Church & Empires
Athanasius
Augustine
Aquinas
Second Year
World Religions
Buddhism
Confucianism
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Rennaissance & Reformation
Calvin
Copernicus
Erasmus/Luther
Hubmaier
Shakespeare
Third Year
Enlightenment
Bunyan
Locke
Pascal
19th Century Seminar
Darwin
Finney
Nietzsche
Spurgeon
Fourth Year
Early 20th Century Seminar
Chesterton
Dewey
Eliot
Freud
Late 20th Century Seminar
Barth
Lewis
Niebuhr
Vatican II
Wouldn’t it be great to read and discuss these times and authors together! So many books . . .
Great curriculum! I’m happy to see Balthasar on the Reformation list. In my view, he’s one of the most unduly overlooked theologians in Christian history. (I just wrote a paper about him for my CH2 course, regarding how his personal/ministerial relationship with Zwingli influenced his willingness recant in 1526.)
@Kyle…after reading Hubmaier in the program and doing a paper on him, I totally agree with you.
Dr. Hamilton, the College is all that and more…I just graduated in May from it and it is worth all the tea in China! It has broadened and deepened me in a way I didn’t imagine it would. And I’m eternally grateful.
I pray you and your family are well in Louisville brother.
Blessings, this Thanksgiving!
– Q