Need help enrolling?
Watch our video tutorial.
- Thumbnail
-
- Course name
-
G.K. Chesterton and The Man Who Was Thursday with Dr. Henry Russell
- Summary
-
Instructor Access (Optional grading support) is available for this course. Please note: this is ONLY recommended if you wish to write the optional paper. All quizzes are internally graded in this course. Optional papers will be completed via this page (click here) for an Instructor Access fee of $75.
In this startlingly original book, even as Chesterton defends the need for a conservative and humane order, he is the poet of a God wildly beyond our most soaring imaginations. Sign up today and learn why Chesterton is considered one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
Instructor: Dr. Henry Russell
Course Description: At the turn of the 1900s, anarchy was a political fad every bit as powerful as global warming is today. More locally destructive, anarchists murdered several heads of state (ranging from President McKinley to the Archduke Ferdinand), and numerous public servants. They also fueled the statist revolutions of the communist era. European nations vastly increased their power by developing their secret police in response to the public panic created by these lunatic figures.
G. K. Chesterton, the great Catholic man of letters, writes one of the most startlingly original novels of the 20th-century in response both to the original source of anarchism (the imitation of Satan’s non serviam) and to the faithless response of modern man to such a threat. In the process Chesterton delineates, beautifully and entertainingly, the way that the very God who created and sustains order is so far beyond order (as puny human minds comprehend it) that He appears wild, chaotic and even threatening to our stubborn desire to reduce the cosmos to our control. Thus, even as he defends the need of a conservative and humane order, Chesterton is the poet of a God wildly beyond our most soaring imaginations. - Course name
-
G.K. Chesterton and The Man Who Was Thursday with Dr. Henry Russell
- Instructor
-
Henry Russell
- Semester
-
Recorded
- Category
-
Literature ➤ Modern Literature
- Grade levels
-
High School
- Editor
-
Sophia Russell
- Start time
-
May 9th, 2023 at 12:00 AM ET
- Course type
-
Recorded, free with subscription
- Relative due dates
- Enhanced quiz security
- Enhanced assignment security
The Catholic Shakespeare: A Contrast of Kings: Macbeth and Julius Caesar
The Catholic Shakespeare: Early and Late Comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest
The Hobbit or There and Back Again as Gateway to J.R.R.Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Beowulf and Christ
Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer; Trust God and Tradition
The Man Who Was Thursday by Chesterton (Modern Catholic Classics Series)
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (Modern Catholic Classics Series)
Homer’s Odyssey; The Soul of Pre-Socratic Wisdom
The Iliad: Glory and the Will of God
King Arthur and Christ: Heroism and Holiness
Medieval Literature for Modern Catholics
Scarlet Letter
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Chivalry, Courtesy and Chastity
Sophocles and Tragedy
Virgil’s Aeneid: The Founding of Nations in the Will of God
Death Comes for the Archbishop (American Classics Series)
Redemptive Comedy of Flannery O’Connor (American Classics Series)
Inferno (Hell) by Dante
Purgatorio (Purgatory) by Dante
Dante’s Paradiso (Heaven)
- This material is only to be used for its intended purpose by active subscribers of Homeschool Connections or purchasers of the course. Any other use without explicit permission is in violation of the seventh commandment, and in violation of US and International copyright laws.
- You may print or download to your own storage extracts for your personal homeschool and non-commercial use only. This is not to be used for homeschool co-ops without express written permission from Homeschool Connections.
- Upon completion of the course, you must delete all copies of course materials from any storage on which you saved permissible extracts.
Total classes
Duration
Suggested grade level
Prerequisites
The ability to enjoy reading and discussing the work
Suggested credit
Outline
Class 1: Biography and Chapter One
Class 2: Chapters 2-3 and an excursus on anarchists
Class 3: Chapters 4-6
Class 4: Chapters 7-9
Class 5: Chapters 10-12
Class 6: Chapters 13-14
Class 7: Chapter 15
Materials
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton (https://www.chesterton.org/store/product/man-who-was-thursday)
Homework
Approximately 20 pages per week, about an hour’s reading. There will be computer-graded quizzes available after each class, and a final.
Henry Russell
maryshire@gmail.com
About Henry Russell
A graduate of Princeton and South Carolina (MS), Dr. Henry Russell completed his graduate work at Louisiana State University. Formerly the Chairman of Ave Maria College’s Department of Literature, he has also been a professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville and Wake Forest University. He is a founding faculty member of the St. Robert Southwell Creative Writing Workshop held in Mahwah, New Jersey.
Dr. Russell is Headmaster of the St. Augustine’s Homeschool Enrichment Program, which he founded with his wife Crystal. The program began in Fall 2005 with 20 students in two living rooms and now tutors more than 140 students in three locations.
Dr. Russell’s works include The Catholic Shakespeare Audio Series. He was the Associate Editor of The Formalist from 1990-2004 and his writings have been published in various journals. He was honored to edit Dr. Alice von Hildebrand’s groundbreaking volume, The Privilege of Being a Woman.
Click here for more info about Dr. Russell!
See Courses & Videos
© 2023 Homeschool Connections; Henry Russell. All Rights Reserved.
Violation of the above copyright policies may result in expulsion without any refund and/or legal action.