Too often the intellectual life is treated as a separate endeavor from that of faith. Chesterton House courses are designed to allow our faith to come to its full expression through our intellectual work in reading, inquiry, and academic conversation. We devote ourselves to growing in the intellectual virtues of wisdom, humility, perseverance, patience, and wonder.
Chesterton House was designated an Oases of Excellence by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) for their recognition of Chesterton House as educating students for informed citizenship in a free society by maintaining the highest academic standards, introducing students to the best of the foundational arts and sciences, teaching American heritage, and ensuring free inquiry into a range of intellectual viewpoints.
Christian Tradition & Its Critics
Christian Tradition & Its Critics (Logos 1100) is the first course in our Logos Seminar Series Logos 1100 is a noncredit seminar offering students a rare chance to take a guided journey through the classical Christian tradition and its critics, and to hear from world-class Christian scholars. Meetings are on select Mondays 6:30-8:30pm (exact dates within registration link). Sessions include a mix of foundational study of the classical philosophical and Christian (and anti-Christian!) texts, fundamental issues in biblical studies and hermeneutics, as well as a (virtual) visiting speaker series hearing from a variety of Christian scholars who apply these traditions to today’s complex world.
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The Bible & Its Critics
The Bible & Its Critics (Logos 2100) is the second course in our Logos Seminar Series. Logos 2100 us a noncredit seminar offering students the opportunity to critically look at varying perspectives of the Bible and its critics. Taking Logos 1100 is a prerequisite, but exceptions will be granted if students have taken similar courses to Logos 1100 in the past. The seminar welcomes Christians, nonreligious, and skeptics, but seminar participants should know that the seminar leader holds to the claims of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 and will be teaching from a Christian standpoint.
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Biblical Greek
Join Jimmy Myers, Sr. Post-doc at Chesterton and former Greek instructor at Duke Divinity School, who turns memorizing Greek grammar and vocab into an opportunity to sing and take joy. It will require intense dedication, just like physical exercise, but with 1 hour of study per day and 2 hours of class time each week, you will be reading and and translating through 1 John in just 8 months.
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Theological Society
The Theological Society meets to discuss both ancient texts and recent academic research within a wide range of biblical, theological, and philosophical areas. These discussions are aimed at an advanced undergraduate or graduate level and aim to satisfy what Simone Weil described as the basic need of the soul: to consider “every sort of opinion, without the least restriction or reserve.” Our dialogues explore the academic writings of visiting speakers in a collegial and cordial setting with a necessary critical eye toward both historic orthodox beliefs and ideas that reign in the contemporary academy and culture.
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