TRS 564 Reading for Evangelists

This course invites students into the rich landscape of the Catholic literary tradition to explore how great stories can illuminate the path of evangelization. Through close reading of authors such as Dante, Newman, Chesterton, Flannery O'Connor, Tolkien, and others, students will reflect on how narrative, imagination, and beauty reveal truth and speak to the deepest human longings. In dialogue with a culture shaped by story, this course considers how literature can form the heart and imagination of the evangelist, offering a compelling witness to the Gospel in a postmodern world.