Our main reading group for the fall of 2007 will explore selections from Dorothy Sayers. Sayers was a contemporary and friend of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams (aka the Inklings). She wrote prolifically as an essayist, and she was also the author of the well-known detective mystery series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. Her main project that comes through in her non-fiction is that Christian “dogma” ought to be expansive rather than narrowing for thought and life. Sayers’ themes include Christianity and culture, creativity and the arts, work, eoncomics, education, and the nature of God. She was committed to thinking deeply about the implications for Christianity’s claims being worked out for personal and cultural life.
Reading schedule:
Third Fridays of September, October, and November, 11:45am.
September 21: Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine
part 1 - pp. 1-124
October 19: Letters to a Diminished Church: Passionate Arguments for the Relevance of Christian Doctrine
part 2 - pp. 125-275 (171-240, optional)
November 16: The Mind of the Maker
Preface, pp. 1-178.
Both books are available through Goerings Bookstore located at
1717 NW 1st Ave, behind/adjacent to St. Augustine Catholic Church.