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Recommended Reading List for Christendom
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Recommended Reading List for Christendom
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Is there a recommended reading/literature list for Dave Raymond’s Christendom? Thanks!
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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:
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The Oxford Book of English Verse edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1250-1918)
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The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, translated by Jack Zipes
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, translated by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton
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The Rule of St. Benedict, translated by Timothy Fry
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The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
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King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales by Sir Thomas Malory, edited by Eugene Vinaver
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Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
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Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Oxford School Shakespeare edition)
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Figures of Speech: 60 Ways to Turn a Phrase by Arthur Quinn
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An Experiment in Criticism by C.S. Lewis
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Holy Bible (any ESV edition)
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Confessions by Augustine, translated by Maria Boulding
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Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney
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The Rule of St. Benedict, translated by Timothy Fry
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The Song of Roland, translated by Dorothy Sayers
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The Inferno by Dante, translated by Dorothy Sayers
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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Nevill Coghill
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Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Book I of the Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser, edited by Roy Maynard
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The Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life by John Calvin, translated by Henry J. Van Andel
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Oxford School Shakespeare edition)
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The Republic by Plato
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Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
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The Divine Comedy by Dante, translated by Dorothy Sayers
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Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
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Are each of these books required reading for the course? If so, are they available for purchase on Compass Classroom? Thanks!
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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.
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