Introduction: Why Study the Christian Liberal Arts Tradition
Part 1: Introduction to Theology
1. The Schleitheim Confession (1527) by Michael Sattler and others
2. Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559) by John Calvin
3. The Interior Castle (1577) by Teresa of Ávila
4. Pensées [Thoughts] (ca. 1660) by Blaise Pascal
5. "Salvation by Faith" (1738) by John Wesley; "Free Grace: And Can It Be That I Should Gain" (1738) by Charles Wesley
6. "On the Death of Whitefield" (1770); "A Hymn to the Evening" and "On Being Brought from Africa to America" (1773); "On the Death of General Wooster" (1778) by Phillis Wheatley
7. The Age of Reason (1794) by Thomas Paine
8. The Way of Holiness (1845) by Phoebe Worrall Palmer
9. On the Genealogy of Morality (1887) by Friedrich Nietzsche
10. Orthodoxy (1908) by G. K. Chesterton
Part 2: Introduction to History of Science
11. On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (1543) by Nicolaus Copernicus
12. "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina" (1615) by Galileo Galilei
13. The New Organon, Or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature (1620) by Francis Bacon
14. The World (1664) by René Descartes
15. Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (1666) by Margaret Cavendish
16. "General Scholium" to the Principia (1726) by Isaac Newton
17. "A Lecture on Earthquakes" (1755) by John Winthrop
18. On the Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin
19. The Principles of Psychology (1890) by William James
Part 3: Introduction to Politics
20. De Indis (1539) by Francisco de Vitoria; and Mare Liberum (1609) by Hugo Grotius
21. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1542) by Bartolomé de las Casas
22. Leviathan (1651) by Thomas Hobbes
23. Second Treatise of Government (1689) and Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) by John Locke
24. A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality (1755) and The Social Contract (1762) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
25. The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) by Adam Smith
26. Federalist No. 10 (1787) and Federalist No. 51 (1788) by James Madison
27. Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) by Edmund Burke
28. The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Karl Marx
Part 4: Introduction to Human Nature
29. Concerning Christian Liberty (1520) by Martin Luther
30. "On Cannibals" (1580) by Michel de Montaigne
31. Womens Speaking Justified (1666) by Margaret Fell
32. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) by Mary Wollstonecraft
33. "Memorial to the Massachusetts Legislature" (1843) by Dorothea Dix
34. "What, to the Slave, Is the Fourth of July?" (1852) by Frederick Douglass
35. Illustrations of Universal Progress (1865) by Herbert Spencer
36. "We Are All Bound Up Together" (1866); "Dandelions" (1896); and "A
Double Standard" (1898) by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
37. The Souls of Black Folk (1903) by W. E. B. Du Bois

Kirstin Anderson Birkhaug

Titles by Kirstin Anderson Birkhaug

The Christian Intellectual Tradition from the Reformation to the Modern Era