Andrew Ellison Assumes Role of Vice President for Enrollment
Andrew Ellison, current director of the St. Ambrose Center for Catholic Liberal Education and Culture, will move to his new role on March 1.
+ Read MoreAuthor | Title |
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Homer | "The Iliad" "The Odyssey" |
"Beowulf" | |
Vergil | "Aeneid" |
"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" | |
Dante Alighieri | "The Divine Comedy" |
John Milton | "Paradise Lost" |
Aeschylus | "Prometheus Bound," "Agamemnon," "Libation Bearers," "Eumenides" |
Sophocles | "Oedipus the Tyrant," "Oedipus at Colonus," "Antigone" |
Euripides | "Bacchae" |
Aristophanes | "Frogs" |
Aristotle | "Poetics" |
The Book of Job | |
"Everyman" & "The Second Shepherd's Play" | |
Marlowe | "Dr. Faustus" |
William Shakespeare | "Hamlet," "Othello," "King Lear," "Merchant of Venice," " The Tempest" |
Jane Austen | "Mansfield Park" |
Herman Melville | "Moby Dick" |
Fyodor Dostoevsky | "Crime and Punishment" |
William Faulkner | "Go Down, Moses" |
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Adam Smith | "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" (selections) |
Pope John Paul II | "Centesimus Annus" |
Thomas Jefferson | The Declaration of Independence |
The United States Constitution |
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The Book of Job | |
Thucydides | "History of the Peloponnesian War" |
Livy | "The Early History of Rome" |
Boethius | "The Consolation of Philosophy" |
Einhard | "Life of Charlemagne" |
Thomas More | "Utopia" |
John Calvin | "Institutes of the Christian Religion" |
Diderot | "The 'Philosophe'" from "Encyclopdie" |
Immanuel Kant | "What is Enlightenment?" |
Edmund Burke | "Reflections on the Revolution in France" |
Marx and Engels | "The Communist Manifesto" |
Pope Leo XIII | "Rerum Novarum" |
Eli Wiesel | "Night" |
Thomas Jefferson | "A Summary View of the Rights of British America," The Declaration of Independence |
The United States Constitution | |
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, & James Madison | "The Federalist Papers" |
Frederick Douglass | "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave" |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton | The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions |
Benjamin Franklin | "Autobiography" |
Henry Adams | "The Education of Henry Adams" |
Abraham Lincoln | Selected Speeches |
Frederick Jackson Turner | "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" |
George F. Kennan | "American Diplomacy" |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Letter from a Birmingham Jail |
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Plato | "Republic," and "Phaedo" or "Symposium" |
Aristotle | "Nichomachean Ethics" (selections), "On the Soul" (selections), "Categories" (selections), "Physics" (selections), "Metaphysics" (selections) |
St. Augustine | "Confessions" (selections) |
St. Thomas Aquinas | "Summa Theologiae" I-II, q. 94 a. 2, (natural law) or I-II, qq. 1-5 (man's end), "De ente et essentia," "Super Boetii De Trinitate," q. 5, a. 1 |
René Descartes | "Meditations on First Philosophy" |
Immanuel Kant | "Critique of Pure Reason" (selections) or "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics" |
Friedrich Nietzsche | "On the Advantages and Disadvantages of History for Life," "Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense" |
Martin Heidegger | "The Question Concerning Technology" or "What is Metaphysics?" or "The Age of the World-Picture" or "Identity and Difference" |
A contemporary Christian personalist, such as Robert Spaemann, Jacques Maritain, Karol Wojtyla, or Norris Clarke, SJ. |
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Alexis de Tocqueville | "Democracy in America" |
Thomas Jefferson | The Declaration of Independence |
The United States Constitution | |
Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison | "The Federalist Papers" |
Frederick Nietzsche | "Genealogy of Morals," "The Use and Abuse of History for Life" |
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The Bible: Selections from the Old and New Testaments | |
Didache | |
Augustine | "Confessions" |
St. Thomas Aquinas | "Summa Theologiae" (selections) |
Martin Luther | "Heidelberg Disputation," "The Freedom of a Christian" |
Melanchthon | "The Augsburg Confession" |
John Calvin | "Institutes of the Christian Religion" |
The Westminster Confession of Faith | |
Council of Trent (selections) | |
Vatican I (selections) | |
Vatican II: "Lumen Gentium" | |
St. Clement | Letter to the Corinthians |
St. Ignatius | Letters to the Ephesians, Letters to the Romans |
St. Athanasius | "On the Incarnation" |
St. Irenaeus | "Against Heresies" |
Andrew Ellison, current director of the St. Ambrose Center for Catholic Liberal Education and Culture, will move to his new role on March 1.
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