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Course no. 287, 2001 Teaching Company. 4 DVD SET: COURSE DESCRIPTION : Two gifted teachers share the fruit of two lifetimes' worth of historical and literary expertise in this introduction to one of the greatest works ever written. One of the most profound and satisfying of all poems, the Divine Comedy (or Commedia) of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is a book for life.In a brilliantly constructed narrative of his imaginary guided pilgrimage through the three realms of the Christian afterlife-hell, purgatory, and heaven-Dante accomplished a literary task of astonishing complexity. James Joyce might have been speaking for those writers when he exclaimed, "Dante is my spiritual food!" ... 24 Le ctures Include: 1. Reading the Poem-Issues and Editions, 2. A Poet and His City-Dante's Florence, 3. Literary Antecedents, I, 4. Literary Antecedents, II, 5. "Abandon Every Hope, All You Who Enter", 6. The Never-Ending Storm, 7. Heretics, 8. The Seventh Circle-The Violent, 9. The Sin of Simony, 10. The False Counselors, 11. The Ultimate Evil, 12. The Seven-Story Mountain, 13. Purgatory's Waiting Room, 14. The Sin of Pride, 15. The Vision to Freedom, 16. Homage to Virgil, 17. Dante's New Guide, 18. Ascending the Spheres, 19. An Emperor Speaks, 20. The Circle of the Sun-Saints and Sages, 21. A Mission Revealed-Encounter with an Ancestor, 22. Can a Pagan Be Saved? 23. Faith, Hope, Love, and the Mystic Empyrean, 24. "In My End Is My Beginning" ---THE PROFESSORS: Dr. William R. Cook is the Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the State University of New York at Geneseo, where he has taught since 1970. Dr. Ronald B. Herzman is Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at the State University of New York at Geneseo, where he has taught since 1969.

Raising kids to be socially conscious and embrace strong values can be difficult in today's world. In Raising Kids Who Will Make a Difference, mother, counselor, and family-life educator Susan Vogt sets out to inspire, equip, and comfort parents in the awesome task of raising Catholic kids who will make positive contributions to our world. Using a delightful blend of honesty and humor, Vogt offers successful parenting strategies and straightforward discussions on important issues such as sexuality, substance abuse, materialism, racism, global awareness, and death.

Discovering Motherhood is a warm, friendly, profound account of the mundane and the mystical in the life of a mother. Somehow, amid the dirty tube socks, the trail of Legos and the baby's mashed bananas, God is present. Annemarie Scobey takes us on a daunting journey that has no map. It is a high-energy trek with ups and downs and bumps in the road. The price of admission is three a.m. feedings, endless diapers changes and lost sleep. But the payoff comes in the profound relationships of mother and children, and in the love that gives life its luster. Scobey has recorded the journey with insight, humor and a sure sense of the Divine in the turmoil, troubles and triumphs of everyday life.

In its mother's womb, a baby grows, explores the waters, and talks with the angel who is there. The gentle illustrations tell the story of that baby and angel, delighting young children because the journey from conception to birth is their story, too. Sophia Institute