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Reading Group

Readings for Friday, April 20: Modern Hymns and Carols with Medieval Origins

Medieval Meditations for Modern Times

Modern people often typify medieval spiritual writers as stern or corrupt, as using the illiterate to profit from their indulgences. How did medieval thinkers actually admonish their readers and understand humanity’s relationship to God? More importantly, what can we gain from the bounty of Christian literature that spanned this thousand-year period?
This reading group will study short selections of medieval spirituality and theology.
We will take a chronological approach toward understanding the medieval conception of the human condition and God’s intervention in history. Readings will be available on our website and at the Pascal’s Coffeehouse greeting table. Reading beforehand will be helpful but not required as we will read the selections at the beginning of each meeting.

Led by Sean Hill
Fridays, period six (12:50-1:40)
January 27, February 10 and 24, March 23, and April 6 and 20
Open to the general public.

“The will is one of the chief organs of belief, not because it creates belief, but because things are true or false according to the aspect by which we judge them. When the will likes one aspect more than another, it deflects the mind from considering the qualities of the one it does not care to see. Thus the mind, keeping in step with the will, remains looking at the aspect preferred by the will and so judges by what it sees there.”

Blaise Pascal