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Library Resources for First Year Curriculum (FYS and CCC): CCC Bibliography

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Bruce C. Birch, “In the Image of God”

Berry, W. (2003). The gift of good land. In The art of the commonplace: The agrarian essays of Wendell Berry (pp. 293–304). Counterpoint. [Also available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

Berry, W., & Davis, E. (2011, November 24). The art of being creatures [Audio podcast episode]. In On Being. https://onbeing.org/programs/wendell-berry-ellen-davis-the-art-of-being-creatures/

Leopold, A. (2013). The land ethic. In A Sand County almanac and other writings on ecology and conservation (pp. 171-189). Library of America. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

Michel, J. P. (2016). A story called rest. Comment Magazine, 34(4), 22–28.

Mitchell, B. E. (2016). The struggle for human dignity in a consumer-oriented culture. Anglican Theological Review, 98(1), 111–123.

Sacks, J. (2014, November 17). “The love that brings new life into the world”—Rabbi Sacks on the institution of marriage. Rabbi Sacks. https://rabbisacks.org/love-brings-new-life-world-rabbi-sacks-institution-marriage/

Shuster, M. (2013). The mystery of original sin. Christianity Today, 57(3), 38–41.

Smith, C. (2005). On “moralistic therapeutic deism” as U.S. teenagers’ actual, tacit, de facto religious faith. The 2005 Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture. https://commons.ptsem.edu/id/youth-2005-05

Tisby, J. (2022, February 3). The image of God: The gift of race [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgQZHTQo-E0

Yung, H. (2011). Energising community: Theological education’s relational mandate. Evangelical Review of Theology, 35(1), 61–77.

J.R.R. Tolkien, “Leaf By Niggle”

Caldecott, S. (2003). The tree of tales. In Secret fire: The spiritual vision of J.R.R. Tolkien (pp. 7-27). Darton, Longman & Todd. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

Dickerson, M., & Evans, J. (2006). Niggle’s parish. In Ents, elves, and Eriador: The environmental vision of J.R.R. Tolkien (pp. 170–177). University Press of Kentucky. [Also available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

Hammond, J., & Hammond, M. (2010). Creation and sub-creation in ‘Leaf by Niggle’. Inklings Forever: Published Colloquium Proceedings 1997-2016, 7. https://pillars.taylor.edu/inklings_forever/vol7/iss1/7

Sayers, D. L. (2005). The image of God. In The mind of the maker (pp. 37–46). Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. [Also available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

Seeley, A. (2012, April 25). Tolkien, faeries, and creation. Circe Institute. https://circeinstitute.org/blog/blog-tolkien-faeries-and-creation-featured-article/

Shippey, T. A. (2000). Autobiographical allegory: 1 ‘Leaf by Niggle’. In J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the century (pp. 266-277). Houghton Mifflin. [Also available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

Tolkien, J.R.R. (1966). On fairy stories. In Sayers, D. (Ed.), Essays presented to Charles Williams (pp. 38-89). Eerdmans. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

Wolfe, G. (1999). Art, faith, and the stewardship of culture. Image: Art, Faith, Mystery, 25, 96–104. [In print periodicals section; upper alcove area]

Alice Walker, “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens”

Collins, P. H. (1996). What’s in a name?  Womanism, black feminism, and beyond. The Black Scholar, 26(1), 9–17.

Danticat, E. (2010). Create dangerously: The immigrant artist at work. In Create dangerously: The immigrant artist at work (pp. 1–20). Princeton University Press. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

Painter, N. I. (2006, February 14). Slavery: A dehumanizing institution. OUPblog. https://blog.oup.com/2006/02/slavery_a_dehum/

Popova, M. (2017, April 13). Ursula K. Le Guin on redeeming the imagination from the commodification of creativity and how storytelling teaches us to assemble ourselves. Brain Pickings. https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/04/13/ursula-k-le-guin-operating-instructions-words-are-my-matter/

Rex, J. (2015, August 20). Creativity and the everyday brain [Audio podcast episode]. In On Being. https://onbeing.org/programs/rex-jung-creativity-and-the-everyday-brain/

Robinson, M. (2017, September 22). Marilynne Robinson on Finding the Right Word. New York Times (Online).

Ulrich, L. T. (2011). “A quilt unlike any other”: Rediscovering the work of Harriett Powers. In Elizabeth Anne Payne (Ed.), Writing women’s history: A tribute to Anne Firor Scott (pp. 72–96). University Press of Mississippi.

Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

Coates, T.-N. (2017). My president was black. The Atlantic, 319(1), 46–66.

Coates, T.-N. P. (2005). Black guy, white music. Time Magazine, 166(8), 78–78.

Chenoweth, E. (2013, November 4). The success of nonviolent civil resistance [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSehRlU34w

Cobb, J. (2016). The matter of black lives. The New Yorker, 92(5), 34–40.

Early, G. (2011). The two worlds of race revisited: A meditation on race in the age of Obama. Daedalus, 140(1), 11–27.

Patterson, O. (1995). The paradox of integration. New Republic, 213(19), 24–27.

Robinson, M. (2018). What Is freedom of conscience?: Its long history in Europe and England prepared the American Revolution: Where has this trait gone? The American Scholar, 87(1), 33–43.

Thoreau, H. D. (2020). On the duty of civil disobedience (1849). In Walden, and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience (pp. 241-260). Lerner Publishing Group.

X, M. (2012). The ballot or the bullet (1964). In R. W. Leeman & B. K. Duffy (Eds.), The will of a people: A critical anthology of great African American speeches (pp. 268–294). Southern Illinois University Press.

Augustine, “Confessions”

Brown, F. B. (2011). The art of parting: Conversing with Augustine. Encounter, 72(1), 51–59.

Brown, P. (2000). Friends. In Augustine of Hippo: A biography (pp. 50-53). University of California Press. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

Carmichael, L. (2004). Ambrose, Cassian and Augustine: Caritas is the great and true virtue. In Friendship: Interpreting Christian love (pp. 40–69). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

Cicero, M. T. (n.d.). On friendship, or Laelius. Loeb Classical Library. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/cicero-friendship.asp

Elshtain, J. B. (1998). Why Augustine? Why now. Theology Today, 55(1), 5–14.

González, J. L. (2016). Introduction. In The mestizo Augustine: A theologian between two cultures (pp. 13-19). IVP Academic.

Michael, B. & Michael, S. (2018). Practicing faith and reconciliation through friendship: Remembering Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940). https://mosaic.messiah.edu/hist_ed/65/

Williams, R. (2015). What is Christianity? SPCK Publishing. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

Williams, R. (2016). Augustinian love. In On Augustine (pp. 191-206). Bloomsbury [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

Harold S. Bender, “The Anabaptist Vision”

Dintaman, S. F. (1993, March 5). The spiritual poverty of the Anabaptist vision. Mennonite Brethren Herald, 6–7. https://zwickaupress.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/dintaman.pdf

Dreher, R. (2015, October 6). Benedict Option FAQ. The American Conservative. https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/benedict-option-faq/

Gehrz, C. (2017, September 12). 4 steps to the renewal of evangelicalism. Anxious Bench. https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2017/09/pietist-renewal-evangelicalism/

Grimsrud, T. (2006). Anabaptism for the twenty-first century. The Mennonite Quarterly Review, 80(3), 371–390. [In print periodicals section; upper alcove area]

Keefer, L. L. (1990). Arminian motifs in the Anabaptist heritage. Brethren in Christ History and Life, 13, 293–323. [In print periodicals section; upper alcove area]

Mommsen, P. (2017, Autumn). The church we need now. Plough, 14. https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/anabaptists/the-church-we-need-now

Swartz, D. (2012). Re-baptizing evangelicalism: American anabaptist and the 1970s evangelical left. In J. S. Burkholder, D. C. Cramer, G. M. Marsden, & S. W. Shenk (Eds.), The activist impulse: Essays on the intersection of evangelicalism and Anabaptism. Pickwick Publications. [Also available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

1) Confessions & relationship with God

Related texts:

Brown, P. (26, October 2017). Dialogue with God. New York Review of Books, 45-46. [Go to Journals page. Select New York Review of Books. Select the journal title again within the database. Select Search icon. Select All Issues. Search for Dialogue with God Brown. Scroll down to correct article in result list]

MacCormack, S. (1998). The Shadows of Poetry: Vergil in the Mind of Augustine. University of California Press, 1998. [Also available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

Plato. (2017). Allegory of the cave. In J. B. LaGrand, T. Ferret, D. C. Manzullo-Thomas, C. Miller, C. Perrin, L. Sheaffer, B. A. Smith & C. A. Wells (Eds.), The CCC core reader (4th ed., pp. 238-248). Messiah College. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

Williams, R. (2016). Augustinian love. In On Augustine. Bloomsbury. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

2) Confessions & relationship to the church

Related texts:

Elshtain, J. B. (1998). Why Augustine? Why now. Theology Today, 55(1), 5–14.

González, J. L. (2016). The mestizo Augustine: A theologian between two cultures. IVP Academic.

McMahon, R. (2006). Understanding the medieval meditative ascent : Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, & Dante. Catholic University of America Press.

Williams, R. (2015). What is Christianity? SPCK Publishing. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

3) Confessions & relationship with friends

Related texts:

Brown, F. B. (2011). The art of parting: Conversing with Augustine. Encounter, 72(1), 51–59.

Brown, P. (2000). Friends. In Augustine of Hippo: A biography (pp. 50-53). University of California Press. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

Cicero, M. T. (n.d.). On friendship, or Laelius. Loeb Classical Library. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/cicero-friendship.asp 

Waddel, P. J. (2011). Shared lives: The challenges of friendship. The Christian Century, 128(19), 11-13.

4) Confessions & role within society

Related texts:

Camacho, P. A. (2017). Ours and Not Ours: Private and Common Goods in Augustine’s Anthropology of Desire. In Latreia and Idolatry: Augustine and the Quest for Right Relationship. Studia Patristica. Vol. LXXXVIII. Peeters Publishing. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

King, M. L. (2017). Letter from Birmingham jail. In J. B. LaGrand, T. Ferret, D. C. Manzullo-Thomas, C. Miller, C. Perrin, L. Sheaffer, B. A. Smith & C. A. Wells (Eds.), The CCC core reader (4th ed., pp. 158-177). Messiah College. [Available in print library collection; Ask at Circulation Desk]

Robinson, M. (2018). What is freedom of conscience? Its long history in Europe and England prepared the American Revolution: Where has this trait gone? The American Scholar, 87(1), 33-43.

Thoreau, H. D. (2020). On the duty of civil disobedience (1849). In Walden, and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience (pp. 241-260). Lerner Publishing Group.