Materials for current Courses

Fall 2009

I will be teaching two courses this fall:

Greek 111; and

CLWR 221: Difficult Dialogues concerning Religious Beliefs. Click to see the most recent Course Description. and Syllabus.

More advanced Greek students:

Download Reading notes template

Greek keyboard for Mac

Writings of general interest

Beauty and the Boy (270 pp., 2006). A story that studies the often painful human desire for Goodness and Beauty. You can download the Preface and first five chapters and read them for free. You can purchase a copy from Little Professor Book Center in Athens (740) 592-4418.

Greek Before Christmas: A forced march through grammar. An introduction to Greek grammar. Available for purchase at Little Professor Book Center in Athens.

Winged Words (a paper concerning the promotion of the study of Greek, presented to the American Philological Association, 1996)

The University Saved My Soul

On Matter and Mysteries: a Response to Professor Dawkins' The God Delusion

De Legibus Christianorum: On the Laws of Christians. A historical and theological consideration of the effects of "Christian" legislation.

Atheists in America. A sermon about the growing incidence of atheism in America.

Does following Jesus make me intolerant? A paper presented at the Veritas Forum at Ohio University, April 11, 2007

The Promise of Judgment A sermon about the Christian hope for judgment

The Enemies of Eros in Antiquity: a Valentine's day lecture presented to the Friends of the Library at Ohio University in 1995.

Why our souls cannot be saved without faith in God A sermon.

On the Trinity, Predestination, and the Bible

Letters to Luke on God and Gays: a series of three sermons in letter form to a 16-year-old boy named Luke.

Letter One: On Abominable People, and Jesus

Letter Two: The Right and Wrong of Sex, and Jesus

Letter Three: What does Paul teach about homosexuality?

Sermons on Holy War

On the Book of Revelation, Part One

On the Book of Revelation, Part Two

On Christian Jihad

My Friend the Buddhist: a sermon.

On Organized Religion: a sermon.

A table of historic IRS rates from 1913-1970 (published by the U.S. Census Bureau)

A Dialogue with Peasantry and Progress. A contemplation of how the modern economy fails the poor. (1992).

Steve Hays

Associate Professor
210C Ellis Hall
Tel. (740) 597-2105
E-mail: hays@ohio.edu

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