Creation and the Classics
$300.00/summer
Environmental Ethics from the Great Books
Schedule:
Section A:
06/09/2025 - 08/01/2025
Summer Term
0.50 credits in Humanities & Electives
Grades 7-12
Taught by:
About the course
Course Description
What do the great books have to say about God's creation? Have there even been any old classics that cover such topics as, environmental ethics, agriculture, and human health? This course will walk through classics from the 19th and 20th centuries. These works are intensely grappling with modernity and the industrial revolution with a balanced environmental response. Rather than being spoon-fed a modern environmental ethic, we can involve ourselves in the minds of those that actually lived through the transition.
Objectives
- What is transcendentalism and how does it shape Henry David Thoreau's time at Walden?
- What is the central to David's interaction with Nature in "The Harvester"?
- Why does David love his land so much?
- Why is Mary Lennox so sickly?
- How does Mary find healing and how does her disposition change along with it?
- How does the Body and Mind interact through human health during Mary's story arc?
Texts
- Heidi by Johanna Spyri
- The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- The Harvester by Gene Stratton Porter
- Possibly the Lord of the Rings
About the teacher
Rocky Ramsey
Rocky has a Masters of Science in Ecological and Environmental Engineering. He earnestly desires to see Christians more thoroughly equipped to handle the climate alarmism and fear mongering that occurs in current society.