[Brandy]

Is there a recommended reading/literature list for Dave Raymond’s Christendom? Thanks!

[Ben Crist]

Hi Brandy! We’ll have a formal list available in the Teacher’s Guide in time for the August sale. Right now, here’s a working list from the live classes Dave has taught:

• The Oxford Book of English Verse edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1250-1918)

• The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, translated by Jack Zipes

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton

• The Rule of St. Benedict, translated by Timothy Fry

• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

• King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales by Sir Thomas Malory, edited by Eugene Vinaver

• Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

• Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Oxford School Shakespeare edition)

• Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to Turn a Phrase by Arthur Quinn

• An Experiment in Criticism by C.S. Lewis

• Holy Bible (any ESV edition)

• Confessions by Augustine, translated by Maria Boulding

• Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney

• The Rule of St. Benedict, translated by Timothy Fry

• The Song of Roland, translated by Dorothy Sayers

• The Inferno by Dante, translated by Dorothy Sayers

• The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill

• Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Book I of the Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser, edited by Roy Maynard

• The Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life by John Calvin, translated by Henry J. Van Andel

• Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Oxford School Shakespeare edition)

• The Republic by Plato

• Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

• The Divine Comedy by Dante, translated by Dorothy Sayers

• Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin

[Brandy]

This is so helpful, Ben! Thank you!

[Marcela Best]

Very helpful, thank you.

[Brett Beauregard]

Are each of these books required reading for the course? If so, are they available for purchase on Compass Classroom? Thanks!

[Ben Crist]

Hi Brett: No, these are not required reading for the Christendom course. They are what Mr. Raymond recommends if you wanted to build a companion literature credit that fits the time period. We do not sell these books. Most are available inexpensively on the secondary market via places like Abebooks & Thriftbooks.