Our Omnibus program is an integration of history, literature, philosophy, and theology. These courses are taught at or above honors level course work.
Senior Readings
Paradise Lost, Foundational American Documents, Common Sense, Democracy in America, Emma, Hamlet, John Adams, Battle Cry of Freedom, All Quiet on the Western Front, Citizen Soldiers, Letter From a Birmingham Jail, The Picture of Dorian Gray, To Kill a Mockingbird, That Hideous Strength, Covenant and God’s Purpose for the World.
Junior Readings
The City of God, The Consolation of Philosophy, Chronicle of the Kings of England, The Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Heidelberg Catechism, Here I Stand, Institutes of the Christian Religion, The Great Divorce, Othello, Complete Poems of George Herbert, The Koran, The Praise of Folly, Martin Luther: Selections from His Writings, The Prince, Romeo and Juliet, Summa Theologica.
Sophomore Readings
The Iliad, Knowing God, How to Read and Understand the Biblical Prophets, The Peloponnesian War, The Servant King: The Bible’s Portrait of the Messiah, Isaiah, The Hippocratic Oath, Bacchae, Clouds, The Republic, Desiring God, Nichomachean Ethics, Day of Atonement, The Apocrypha, The War with Hannibal, Psalms, The Psalter Reclaimed: Praying and Praising with the Psalms, The Augustus Caesar’s World, Antony and Cleopatra, On the Nature of Things, Second Philippic, On Duties, Annals of Imperial Rome, Eclogues, Georgics, The Jewish War, Metamorphoses, Meditations, Plutarch’s Lives, The Apostolic Fathers, Phantases.
Freshman Readings
Westminster Confession, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Frankenstein, Of Plymouth Plantation, Pride and Prejudice, The Social Contract, Benjamin Franklin, Foundational American Documents, Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, Christianity and Liberalism, Revolution in France, Tale of Two Cities, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Killer Angels, Slave Narratives, Lincoln’s Speeches, Philemon, The Communist Manifesto, Animal Farm, The Great Gatsby, Death of a Salesman.
8th Grade Readings
Delighting in the Trinity, Beowulf, On the Bondage of the Will, The Canterbury Tales, Confessions, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Eusebius: The Church History, History of the Kings of Britain, Macbeth, On the Incarnation of Our Lord, Rule of St. Benedict, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Song of Roland, Henry V, King Richard III, The Lord of the Rings, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
7th Grade Readings
The Aeneid, The Orestia Trilogy, Codes of Hammurabi and Moses, Gilgamesh, The Histories, Julius Caesar, The Last Days of Socrates, The Odyssey, The Oedipus Trilogy, The Best Things in Life, The Unaborted Socrates, Chosen by God, Eagle of the Ninth, The Holiness of God, The Screwtape Letters, Till We Have Faces.