THE ABOLTION OF MAN: CHRISTIANITY AND MODERNITY

Catalog description

With C.S. Lewis’s influential work as a guide, this course introduces students to the major philosophical, theological, and political questions that have animated the intellectual life of Western Civilization from the Reformation and the birth of th e early modern period through the twentieth century. Through the close study of influential and important works from this period, students gain a critical appreciation of both the intellectual successes and failures that have occurred in modern and postmodern thought.