Monday nights, 6:00-8:45 pm, January 23-March 19, 2012
Amarillo College, Ordway Hall

Contact Dr. Mike Bellah (674-7023) or call the Registrar's Office (371-5000).
This is an eight-week, Continuing Education Class.

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This spring, you are invited to journey through an investigation of Judeo-Christian thought as expressed in Western Literature.  This exploration will focus on literary works affirming faith, doubting faith, and fully denying traditional Judeo-Christian concepts. The course will be approached in a historical framework.
    We will look at such faith-affirmative works as those written by Martin Luther, John Milton, C. S. Lewis, Ronald Stuart Thomas and William P. Young, moving to the questioning letters of Thomas Jefferson, the poetry of Wordsworth and Tennyson, and even the journals of Mother Theresa, and confront the stark denials expressed by Thomas Hardy, Langston Hughes, and the postmodern, Donald Barthelme.
    This course will provide the opportunity for each participant to better understand the progression of thought regarding Christianity in the Western world—and, as all literary endeavors do—“force” the scholar to evaluate his or her own beliefs about faith in the process.

Professor:  Dr. Mary Lynn Dodson
Time:  Tuesday evenings, 6:00-8:40p.m.
Place: Ordway Hall, Amarillo College

For more information, contact:
Dr. Mary Lynn Dodson, 806 371-5176
mldodson@actx.edu
    OR
Debbie Ortega,
English Department Administrative Assistant
806 371-5170

(Note: This course qualifies for three hours humanities credit!)