FINAL REFLECTIONS

9/1/2005

Fr. Wauck looks back and sees where we've been as we reach the end of this journey through Christian literature.

CONCLUSION

8/23/2005

Fr. Wauck discusses 20th-Century authors such as C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Evelyn Waugh and concludes with a hope that a resurgence in Christian literature is on its way.

A CATHOLIC REVOLUTION

8/16/2005

Fr. Wauck looks at Christian literature produced during the Age of Romanticism.

PROTESTANT REVOLT AND GOLDEN CENTURIES

8/16/2005

Fr. Wauck discusses the Protestant Reformation and the golden centuries of Christian literature, which followed.

A CATHOLIC LITERARY REVOLUTION

8/16/2005

If one looks at the history of literature in general, theatre is the most popular form of literary art. Fr. Wauck looks at the phenomenon of Christian theatre from the 900s to the late 1600s.

OVERTURE

1/5/2005

Fr. John Wauck gives a brief introduction and overview of twenty centuries of Christian literature.

A CHRISTIAN ROMAN EMPIRE

1/1/2005

Fr. Wauck discusses how the legalization of Christianity unleashed an explosion of literary activity among Christians, especially from the Early Church Fathers such as St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Athanasius and St. John Chrysostom.

CATHEDRALS, CRUSADES AND TRUBADOURS

1/1/2005

Fr. Wauck takes us through the Crusades, the chivalric culture of the Middle Ages, the building of cathedrals, flourishing religious orders such as the Franciscans and the Dominicans and books like the Chanson de Roland and The Song of Roland.

DARK CENTURY

1/1/2005

Fr. Wauck looks at the dark ages of Christian literature, also known as the so-called Age of Enlightenment, which produced little in the way of Christian literary works.

CLASSICAL / CHRISTIAN

1/1/2005

Fr. Wauck looks at literature from the period of the persecutions, which begins with the Resurrection and ends with a decision by the Emperor Constantine in the year 313 to legalize Christianity after his decisive battle of the Milvain Bridge, .

CAROLINGIAN RENAISSANCE

1/1/2005

Fr. Wauck journeys through literature from the Carolingian Renaissance around 800 to the time of the first Crusade in 1095.

A BRIDGE TO A NEW WORLD

1/1/2005

Fr. Wauck explores the birth of the Middle Ages and the Christian literature of that period.

TWILIGHT OF MIDDLE AGES

1/1/2005

Fr. Wauck discusses the waning of the Middle Ages – when the great achievements had reached their fruition but an age of authors such as Danté, Petrarch, Boccaccio and Chaucer.