Religion 61. Literature of Modern Religious Experience and Reflection: Texts in the Christian Tradition

Instructor: James Engell
Wednesday, 3-5:45pm | Location: Barker 403

Works in various genres—e.g., poems, sermons, fiction, exhortations, philosophical reflections, essays—that represent a range of Christian lived experience and reflection on it.  Existential issues of mortality, charity, love, sex, sin, injustice, contemplation, and forgiveness.  Male and female authors from the last 600 years.  Writers may include Julian of Norwich, William Langland, John Donne, George Herbert, S. T. Coleridge, Frederick Douglass, William James, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Luther King, Jr., Marilynne Robinson.

Cross-listed with English.
Preference given to CSR and English concentrators.