Pat Henry
529-4090
717 Abbott Road
henrypg@whitman.edu


World Literature 200
Fall 2005
The Literature of Peace

August 28 (Language Lab 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.)

Introductory Class (one hour)
Syllabus, Handouts, Exposés
Discussion of class
(30 minute video) New Heaven, New Earth, March 24, 1974 television show about Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement.

August 30 - September 3 (Pat Henry’s House 6:30-10:00 p.m.)

Clips of Carnage: A History of Warfare as Portrayed on Film. A Weed/Henry Production (Summer 2005). 106 minutes.
Augustine, Aquinas, Erasmus: JUST WARS or “just wars”. (Handouts)

September 4 - 10

Rabelais: Gargantua [pp. 35-163 of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Penguin)]
(30 minute video) Bill Moyer’s Journal, Feb 20, 1973 television show about Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement.

September 11-17

Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness
(30 minute video) Christopher Closeup, February 20, 1972 television show about Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement.

September 18 – 24 (Paper due: September 23; 4 p.m. in my box in Olin)

Gandhi: Gandhi on Non-Violence
Video (clips from)
Gandhi: Pilgrim of Peace
Gandhi (film with Ben Kingsley)

September 25 – October 1

Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Testament of Hope
[pp. IX – XXV; 5-20; 35-40; 54-61; 245-252; 289-302; 313-328; 634-640; 657-679 and three sermons:
1. “A Christmas Sermon on Peace” [12/24/1967] pp. 253-258
2. “Drum Major Instruct” [2/4/1968] pp. 259-267
3. “I See the Promised Land”) [4/3/1968] pp. 279-286
Videos (25 minutes)

Excerpts from Martin Luther King, Jr’s speeches
1. “I Have a Dream” (Washington, D.C.) August 28, 1963
2. “How Long, Not Long” (“Our God is Marching On”) (Montgomery, Alabama) March 25, 1965.
3. “I Have Been to the Mountain Top” (“I See the Promised Land”) (Memphis, Tennessee) April 3, 1968


October 2 - 8

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (handouts)
1. Reader’s Bible
pp. 98-99 (Exodus 20)
pp. 730-732 (Psalm 37)
pp. 761-762 (Psalm 72)
pp. 905-908 (Isaiah 1)
pp. 917-919 (Isaiah 9)
pp. 951-952 (Isaiah 32)
pp. 972-974 (Isaiah 45)
pp. 976-978 (Isaiah 48)
pp. 986-987 (Isaiah 54)
pp. 994-996 (Isaiah 60)
2. Peace Entry in Oxford Companion to the Bible
3. Rabbi Heschel on the Prophets (pp. 89-92; 393-413; 618-625)
4. Rabbi Heschel: “Who is Man?” (pp. 12-15; 25-27; 75-77; 81-83; 85-87; 94-97; 100-119)

October 9 - 15

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity
[pp. 3-11; 75-79; 148-153; 185-190; 209-212; 219-232; 235-256; 268-300; 381-393]
Video (58 minutes)
Abraham Joshua Heschel Remembered (Interview with Carl Stern) The Jewish Theological Seminary

October 16 - 22

Thich Nhat Hanh: Peace Is Every Step
Video (43 minutes): The Door of Compassion (Interview with Thich Nhat Hanh)

October 23 - 29


Thich Nhat Hanh and Daniel Berrigan: The Raft Is Not the Shore
Video (clips from): Thich Nhat Hanh: The Mind of Transformation. Combining Ethics and Meditation

October 30 – November 5th (Paper due: November 4th; 4 p.m. in my box in Olin)

Thomas Merton: Faith and Violence. Christian Teaching and Christian Practice
[pp. 3-13; 30-39; 40-46; 106-108; 111-118; 121-144; 205-214]
Video (56 minutes): Merton. A Film Biography

November 6 - 12

Thomas Merton: New Seeds of Contemplation [pp. 1-20; 47-51; 52-63; 112-125; 203-213; 239-244; 268-274; 290-297 + handout]

November 13 - 19

Malcolm X: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (pp. 1-287)
Videos (clips from):
Malcolm X (documentary)
Malcolm X (film by Spike Lee)

Nov 18-27: Thanksgiving Break

November 28 – December 3

Malcolm X: The Autobiography of Malcolm X [pp. 288-460]
Video (clips from)
Malcolm X (film by Spike Lee)
Handouts on Islam and Peace

December 4 - 10 (Paper due: December 9th; 4 p.m. in my box in Olin)

Bernie Glassman: Bearing Witness. A Zen Master’s Lessons in Making Peace

Please Note:
1. Final grade is based on three papers, exposés given in class, general class participation and Blackboard postings.

2. You will have to write three papers: one on Rabelais, Dorothy Day or Gandhi (4 pages); one on Martin Luther King, Jr., Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel or Thich Nhat Hanh (4 pages); one on Thomas Merton, Malcolm X or Bernie Glassman (6 pages). These papers are due respectively at 4 p.m. in my box in Olin on the following dates: September 23; November 4; December 9.

3. No Absences allowed.

4. Blackboard Postings: By 8 a.m. on the mornings of our class (except for the first week—Augustine, Aquinas, Erasmus), students will be expected to have posted a one-page response to the readings for that day. All of us will also be expected to read all postings in preparation for classroom discussion.