Byzantine Catholic
Great Books College
"Do not conform yourselves to this age, but be transfigured by the renewal of your mind" (Romans 12:2).
Spring 2007: Adult education classes (non-credit) will be offered this spring in the Church Fathers by the Transfiguration Institute here.
New: Development of Transfiguration College is currently on hold. We thank you for all of your prayers and support.
New: We have completed a provisional curriculum, which may be viewed here [PDF].
New: Our Statement of Educational Purpose, or "Red Book" is now available for download here [PDF].
Study in the Light of the East
Transfiguration College is being founded to form the minds of students living in this age through the wisdom received from ages past. Because we inherit this wisdom from the East—from the pagan thinkers of antiquity and the Fathers of the Eastern Christian Church—Transfiguration College looks to the Light of the East.
We are working to establish a four-year bachelor of arts college that will integrate the natural light revealed by the pagan Greek philosophers with the supernatural light received through the Early Church Fathers, including the distinctive spirituality of Byzantium.
Transfiguration College will be the first Catholic institution in the United States to offer a classical education within the Byzantine tradition. The spirituality of the Christian East—in theology, iconography, and above all in the Divine Liturgy—will be an essential dimension of the education offered at Transfiguration College.
Great Books, Sublime Liturgy
Students will study the Great Books in small seminars under the direction of a tutor. Students will read original texts, from Aristotle and St. Basil the Great to Gregory Palamas and Dosteyevsky.
Students will be immersed in the the riches of the Byzantine spiritual tradition. Daily Divine Liturgies will be celebrated, and students will have the opportunity to pray Akathists, Matins, and Vespers. All students will study and learn to write icons.
Students Transfigured in Christ
As a Catholic college, Transfiguration College will strive to aid students in their full development, so that they may become "partakers of the divine nature" (2 Peter 1:4).
With Christ as Teacher, students will undergo their own transfiguration, by heeding God the Father's instructions to the Apostles on the mountain: "This is my beloved Son; listen to Him" (Mark 9:7).
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