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Great Books and Missionary Fictions Daniel Born

The Batman and Robin of the 20 th Century Great Books Movement

At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Peter Matthiessen, 1965

Leslie (Aidan Quinn) and Andy Huben (Daryl Hannah) in Hector Babenco’s 1991 film adaptation

Martin (John Lithgow) and Hazel Quarrier (Kathy Bates)

Lewis Moon (Tom Berenger) as Cheyenne warrior soldier-of-fortune, and as Niaruna tribesman

Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible (1998)

Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise (1981)

Shusaku Endo, Silence (1966; translated into English, 1969)

Guidelines for Shared Inquiry 1.Read the selection carefully before participating in the discussion. 2.Support your ideas with evidence from the text. 3.Discuss the ideas in the selection and try to understand them fully before exploring issues that go beyond the text. 4.Listen to other participants and respond to them directly. 5. Expect the leader to only ask questions.

What kinds of questions drive discussion? 1.An interpretive question will generate a variety of responses. This is the kind of question you generally want to start with. 2.A factual question will generate one correct answer. If there is misunderstanding, reread the text or look up the meaning of the word. (Don’t lead with a factual question.) 3.Evaluative questions ask us to judge the text in terms of our own experience as well as other works we have read. Evaluative questions help make connections between insight gained from discussion and how we live our lives. (Evaluative questions are critical, but beware the tendency to skip to these without close reading of the text.)

How do I know that I am asking an interpretive question? The question is not rhetorical. You as the discussion leader do not have a clear answer to the question. It is genuine. You should be able to write at least two different answers to your own question, supporting each answer with evidence from the text. Note: for a complete guide to Shared Inquiry discussion, see the Shared Inquiry Handbook (Chicago: The Great Books Foundation, 2007). Order at

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