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APC's Spiritual Classics Reading Group has been around for many years and a number of people have come and gone from our spirited ranks. We would love to have you join us. The group has read fairly extensively, touching on the early church fathers, the medieval church mothers, the reformers the Quakers, modern German Lutheran, and literature with spiritual themes. Over the years we have read a wide assortment of theological heavyweights, modern religious interpreters, masters of fiction, illuminating poets, and raucous playwrights from A (Augustine, Aquinas, and Athanasius) through Z (Zarathustra as in "Thus Spoke"). We meet every other month usually on a Sunday night. In addition to our discussion we always have a chance to visit over dinner. For more information contact us. Books We Have Read (* indicates works read aloud by the group)
2007
2006 Marilynne Robinson: Gilead (January) Albert Camus: The Plague
2005 Ibrahim Gamard
(translated and annotated): Rumi and Islam
2004 Thomas
Mann: The Magic Mountain 2003 Bible: The Apocrypha (1/26/03) William Blake: Jerusalem (3/16/2003) John Henry Newman: Apologia Pro Vita Sua (5/25/03) Moliere: *Tartuffe (7/20/03) Samuel
Beckett: *Waiting for Godot (08/11/02) Dylan Thomas: A Child's Christmas in Wales (12/13/03)
2002 Richard Rubenstein: When Jesus Became God (1/27/02) James Agee: A Death in the Family (03/03/02) Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica (05/00/02) Samuel Beckett: *Waiting for Godot (08/11/02) Reinhold Niebuhr: Moral Man and Immoral Society (11/10/02)
2001 Phillis Trible: Texts of Terror (1/28/01) William Ellery Channing: Selected Writings (4/08/01) Walter Rauschenbusch: Christianity and the Social Crisis (5/01) Gerard Manly Hopkins: *Poems (8/29/01) Bible, Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 & 2 Samuel, & 1 & 2 Kings. (11/18/01)
2000 Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory (2/27/00) Bible: the Pentateuch (4/30/00) T. S. Eliot: *Four Quartets (7/16/00) John Calvin: Institutes Book I (10/22/00)
1999 John Donne: Poems (2/21/99) Howard Thurman: Jesus and the Disinherited and James Weldon Johnson: God’s Trombones (4/25/99) Boethius: The Consolation of Philosophy (6/27/99) Arthur Miller: *The Crucible (7/25/99) Eusebius: The History of the Church (10/17/99) Matthew Fox: Original Blessing (12/12/99)
1998 Herman Melville: Moby-Dick (3/8/98) Gustavo Gutiérrez: On Job (5/31/98) [with the Book of Job] *Archibald MacLeish: J.B.; a play in verse (6/19/98) Blaise Pascal: Pensées (9/27/98) Meister Eckhart: Selected Writings (12/13/98)
1997 Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov (1/20/97) [with guest Olga Meerson] Dostoevsky: The Brothers Karamazov, part II (2/23/97) Ron Cameron, ed: The Other Gospels: Non-Canonical Gospel Texts (4/27/97) *John Milton: Paradise Regain’d (6/22/97) Hildegard of Bingen: Book of Divine Works (9/21/97) John Woolman: The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman (12/7/97)
1996 Sören Kierkegaard: Fear and Trembling and Sickness Unto Death (2/18/96) Origen: An Exhortation to Martyrdom, Prayer and Selected Works (4/21/96) T. S. Eliot: *Murder in The Cathedral (6/30/96) G. K. Chesterton: Orthodoxy (7/14/96) Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Cost of Discipleship (9/22/96) Anonymous: The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counseling (11/16/96)
1995 Dante: Purgatorio and Paradiso (1/22/95) Leo Tolstoy: A Confession and Other Writings (3/19/95) John Milton: Paradise Lost (5/21/95) *John Milton: Samson Agonistes (7/2/95) William James: The Varieties of Religious Experience (9/24/95) Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness (12/3/95)
1994 Thomas Merton: The Seven Story Mountain (1/30/94) Thomas à Kempis: Imitation of Christ (2/27/94) John Bunyan: Pilgrim’s Progress (5/1/94) Erasmus: Praise of Folly (7/10/94) Therèse of Lisieux: Story of a Soul (9/25/94) [& the movie by Alain Cavalier, Therèse (1986)] Dante: Inferno (11/20/94)
1993 St. Augustine: Confessions (5/2/93) Athanaseus: Life of St. Antony (6/13/93) Teresa of Ávila: Interior Castle (7/25/93) Simone Weil: Waiting for God (9/26/93)
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