Courses
2004 . First Semester
     
  Evil: from the Bible to Literature


Schedule

March 23 Introductory Class
25 Gen 3 & The Fall (Catechism)
30 Milton: Paradise Lost (i: 242-70; ix: 655-792)
April 1 Golding: Free Fall
6 Mt 6:9-13 & Shakespeare: Macbeth (v.1)
13 Hawthorne: "The Minister's Black Veil"
15 Deely: "The Seven Deadly Sins and the Catholic Church."
20 Dubus: "Killings"
22 Carver: "Popular Mechanics"/"Little Things"
27 Jackson: "The Lottery"
29 Sharpe: "Evil"
May 4 The Angry God from the Bible
6 Gen 6-7 & Coover: "The Brother"
11 The Book of Job
13 Edwards: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" & Mather: "Salem Trials"
18 Midterm Exam
20 Mk 15:33-39 & Billy Budd
25 Oates: "The Night Nurse"
27 Levin: Rosemary's Baby (movie)
June 1 Levin: Rosemary's Baby (movie)
3 Rev 21:1-18 & O'Connor: "Revelation"
8 Watson: "The Identity of Evil"
15 Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
17 Stevenson: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
22 Doctorow: "Vietnam", from City of God
24 Gen 22:1-19 & Owen: "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"
29 Ricoeur: "Evil, a Challenge to Philosophy and Theology."
July 1 Doctorow: "To Remake God", from City of God
6 Final Exam


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