Round 1: Voting will be open from Monday (3/16) until Monday (3/23)
Round 2: Voting will be open from Monday (3/23) until Saturday (3/30)
Round 3: The first semi-final round will be Monday (3/30) until Wednesday (4/1); the second semi-final round will be Thursday (4/2) until Saturday (4/4)
Round 4 (the final): Voting will be open from Monday (4/6) until Monday (4/13)
In this special bonus episode, Fr. Wesley Walker and Dr. Junius Johnson pivot from their usual textual analysis to the “Battle of the Books.” Harnessing the competitive energy of March Madness, they set out to seed the last twelve books discussed on the podcast into a tournament bracket, where the ultimate winner will be decided by listener votes. The seeding process is guided by two primary criteria: the quasi-objective historical influence of the text and the quasi-subjective literary or theological quality of the work.
The books included in the tournament are:
Lilith by George MacDonald
Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
Proslogion by Anselm
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Aeneid by Virgil
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Federalist Papers
The Journey of the Mind to God by Bonaventure
Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
