The Sacramental Imagination and Catholic Literature

Reading List

Required Books

You will need to purchase or borrow the following books:

1. The Fall

Albert Camus

2. Three by Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor Wise Blood
Everything that Rises Must Converge Short Stories:

"Revelation"
"Parker's Back"

3. Holy the Firm

Annie Dillard

4. The Power and the Glory

Graham Greene

Required Handouts

The following handouts will be provided:

"The Sacramental Imagination and Catholic Literature"

Nina Butorac

"The Sacramental Imagination"

Andrew Greeley

Orthodoxy (Excerpt)

G. K. Chesterton

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek [Excerpt]

Annie Dillard

"God's Grandeur"
"Windhover"

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Excerpt: p. 140 - 142)
"Hagia Sophia"

Thomas Merton

"Litany of Loreto"

"St. John's Gospel - 17:1-26"

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