Class Schedule

Week

Topic

Assigned Reading

Suggested Reading

Teacher

7 Mar

Introduction: The Biblical Philosophy of History/Why Does This Matter to Us Anyway?

 

 

Tim

14 Mar

The Beginning of the New Testament Era: Jewish persecution, the Fall of Jerusalem, Ebionism

Matthew 23-25
The Didache
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-07/anf07-36.htm

Gonzalez, chapters 1-4

Rob

21 Mar

Roman Persecution

Revelation 2-3
The Martyrdom of Polycarp
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-01/anf01-13.htm
The Epistle of Ignatius to the Romans
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-01/anf01-19.htm

Gonzalez, 5-6

Rob

28 Mar

The Gnostic Heresy: Early Gnosticism/Development of the Canon/Apostles’ Creed

I Corinthians 1:18-31
The Apostles’ Creed
Against Marcion, Book II
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-03/anf03-29.htm

Gonzalez, 7-8
Maybe a subsection of Against Heresies?

Tim

4 Apr

Alexandrian Christianity:

Clement and Origen

 

Gonzalez 9

Tim

11 Apr

Third Century Persecution, Decius, Cyprian, Novatian

On the Unity of the Church
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-05/anf05-111.htm#P6832_2190664

Gonzalez 10
The Life and Passion of Cyprian
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-05/anf05-24.htm

On the Lapsed
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-05/anf05-113.htm

Rob

18 Apr

Diocletian’s Persecution/Donatism

 

Gonzalez 12, 16

Tim

25 Apr

Constantine

 

Gonzalez 13-14

Rob

2 May

Monasticism: the Desert Fathers, communal monasticism

Rule of St. Benedict, prologue, chaps. 1-7, 20-40 http://www.ccel.org/b/benedict/rule2/rule.html

Gonzalez 15

Life of St. Anthony
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-04/Npnf2-04-38.htm

Rob

9 May

The Arian Controversy

The Nicene Creed

Gonzalez 17-18

Tim

16 May

Athanasius/The Cappadocians

On the Incarnation of the Word
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF2-04/Npnf2-04-16.htm

Gonzalez 19-20

Tim

23 May

Ambrose, Chrysostom, and Jerome

 

Gonzalez 21-23

Rob

30 May

Augustine, part I

Selections from the Confessions

 

Rob

6 Jun

Augustine, part II

 

 

Tim

13 Jun

Christological Controversies

Selected bits of The City of God and On the Trinity?

Gonzalez 26-27

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Rob

20 Jun

Decline of the Western Empire

The Definition of Chalcedon

Gonzalez 28-29

Rob

27 Jun

Justinian I

 

 

Tim

4 Jul

The Rise of Islam/The Icon controversy

 

Gonzalez 30

Tim

11 Jul

Ascendancy of the Papacy

Unam Sanctam
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/b8-unam.html

 

?

18 Jul

The Great Schism

 

 

?

25 Jul

The Mendicant Orders

 

 

?

1 Aug

Anselm

 

 

?

8 Aug

The Medieval World as an Expression of Christian Culture

 

 

Tim

15 Aug

Scholasticism: Lombard, Ockham, Aquinas

 

 

?

22 Aug

The Collapse of the Medieval World

 

Gonzalez 32

?

29 Aug

The Renaissance /Precursors to Reformation

 

Gonzalez 33-34

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