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  • Latin Studies
    • Introduction to Living Latin
    • Latin Boot Camps
    • Latin On-Ramp
    • Sub Arboribus
    • Intensive Latin
    • The Heart of Latin
  • Literary Studies
    • Here Be Dragons
    • C.S. Lewis’ Cosmic Trilogy
    • Close Reading: Fantastical Literature
  • Theological Studies
    • Faith and Culture: Being Salt and Light Today
    • Theological Literacy
    • The Father of Lights: A Theology of Beauty
  • About
    • About the Instructor
    • Our Values
    • Our Policies

Literary Studies

Courses designed to revive and strengthen a sense of wonder.

Close Reading: Fantastical Literature

Set Course for Adventure! Rigor is a sign of a well-trained mind. — Wonder is the most fertile soil for rigor to grow in. A literature course has got to make students good readers, but before that, it has to make them avid readers. One of the best ways to […]

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Sympathetic Apologetics

“It is very easy to ask Christians perplexing questions, because from the outside Christ’s mysteries appear to be mere paradoxes, and it is very difficult to solve them at this level. (The attempt leads to false apologetics.) The chief concern here, rather, should be to awaken in the questioner an […]

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The Discarded Image

Rethinking the Middle Ages “Sadly, however, it is not serious historians who, for the most part, form the historical consciousness of their times; it is bad popular historians, generally speaking, and the historical hearsay they repeat or invent, and the myths they perpetuate and simplifications they promote, that tend to […]

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Right Writing

Correcting Our Understanding of Grammar Grammar, as the foundation of language, is an essential element in all good writing. And yet very few opportunities exist for us as adults to think about grammar in a focused way, to explore and question those rules that we so often teach more by […]

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The Man Who Was Thursday

This is a tale of those old fears, even of those emptied hells, And none but you shall understand the true thing that it tells– Of what colossal gods of shame could cow men and yet crash, Of what huge devils hid the stars, yet fell at a pistol flash. […]

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Bite-Sized Wonder

Fantastical Short Stories A dragon of deepest winter cold; a golden key in search of a lock; a sea adventure of the highest sort in the most unlikely of places: these are our business. In this course we set out to prove that a tale need not be long to […]

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Summer of Fairies

“Once upon a time there was a great wizard who lived in a far country. Once upon a time, in a deep forest, there was a poor woodchopper and his wife. Once upon a time a deep sleep fell upon all the inhabitants of the palace […] Once upon a […]

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C.S. Lewis’ Cosmic Trilogy

“They were falling out of heaven, into a world. Nothing in all his adventures bit so deeply into Ransom’s mind as this. He wondered how he could ever have thought of planets, even of the Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now, with a […]

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Fairies (Young Learners)

Fairies: Behind the Veil & Once Upon a Time Every book is a portal. Through it, we enter realms and times not our own. While there, we learn to see ourselves and our world differently, and come back changed: hopefully wiser, more courageous, more aware. But not all worlds are […]

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