Key Texts for Year One
Literature
Anthony O’Hear, The Great Books: A Journey through 2,500 Years of the West’s Classic Literature, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2009
Sister Miriam Joseph. “The Liberal Arts”. The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric, Paul Dry Books, 2002.
History
Henri Daniel-Rops, Histoire de l’Eglise
Kenneth Clark, Civilisation
Philosophy/ Theology
The Holy Bible, Catholic RSV edition.
Scott Hahn (ed), Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: New Testament, Ignatius, 2010.
Raymond Brown; Joseph Fitzmyer; Roland Murphy, eds. (1968). The Jerome Biblical Commentary
Frederick Copleston. A History of Philosophy. Volume 1, “Greece and Rome”, 1946. Many editions.
Peter Kreeft, Socrates’ Children, 4 vols, St Augustine’s Press, Indiana. (Publication: 2016)
Paul Glenn, A Tour of the Summa, Ignatius, 1992.
Frederick Copleston, Aquinas: An Introduction to the Life and Work of the Great Medieval Thinker (Penguin Philosophy), 1991.
Dei Verbum: Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation of the Second Vatican Council, 1965.
Lawrence Boadt, Reading the Old Testament: an introduction, Paulist Press, 1984.
Etienne Charpentier, How to Read the New Testament, SCM Press, 1981.
Mathematics
Thomas Heath (trans.), The thirteen books of Euclid’s Elements, Cambridge University Press, 1908.
Latin
Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell, Reading Latin, 1986.
Keith Sidwell, Reading Medieval Latin, 1995.
Key Texts for Year Two
Literature
Anthony O’Hear, The Great Books: A Journey through 2,500 Years of the West’s Classic Literature, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2009
Duncan Wu, Romanticism: An anthology (3rd revised ed), 2005.
Victor Shea (Editor), William Whitla (Editor), Victorian Literature: An Anthology, 2013.
History
Henri Daniel-Rops, Histoire de l’Eglise
Kenneth Clark, Civilisation
Philosophy/ Theology
Peter Kreeft, Socrates’ Children, 4 vols. (St Augustine’s Press, Indiana). (To be published 2016)
Michael Sheehan, Peter Joseph (Ed.), Apologetics and Catholic Doctrine (Baronius Press), 2011.
Anthony Fisher OP, Catholic Bioethics for a New Millennium (Cambridge University Press), 2011.
Science
Peter Hodgson, The Roots of Science and Its Fruits, 2002.
Peter Hodgson, Christianity and Science, 1990.
CS Lewis, John G. West (ed), The Magician’s Twin: CS Lewis on Science, Scientism and Society, 2012.
Stanley Jaki, The Savior of Science, 1988.
H.A . Rey, The Stars: A New Way to See Them, 1976.
Guy Consolmagno SJ and Martha Schaefer, Worlds Apart: A Textbook in Planetary Sciences, 1994.