Short Courses & Reading Groups
Short Courses about some of the important books in the Christian tradition, old and new.
Our short courses are great opportunities to explore a book (old classics and new works), discuss important questions of faith and culture, or explore the intersection of science and faith. While intended primarily for Virginia Tech students, we welcome faculty, staff, and local community member participants as well.
Spring 2025 Courses and Groups
Notes from Underground
Notes from Underground, a classic of the famous 19th century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky is both an artistic achievement, and an important philosophical, political, and psychological statement from that time. Additionally, it also gives context for Dostoevsky's major novels that follow it. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it can help us better understand human nature and to consider what kind of society will best provide for people's spiritual needs.
The group is now closed to new participants.
Led by Sean Sirks & James Depret-Guillaume
Thursdays, 11:00am - 12:15pm
Weekly, starting February 6
@ the Bradley Study Center (104 Faculty St.)
Previous discussion groups have included:
- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
- Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
- Felicia Wu Song, Restless Devices
- James Davison Hunter, To Change the World
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
- William Webb, Slaves, Women and Homosexuals
- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
- Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise
- Yuval Levin, A Time to Build
- John Lennox, Can Science Explain Everything?
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
- James K. A. Smith, How (Not) to be Secular
- Dennis Venema & Scot McKnight, Adam and the Genome
- N.T. Wright, The New Testament in its World
- C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
- Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation
- Steven Bouma-Prediger, For the Beauty of the Earth
