Patristics : An Introduction to the Fathers of the Church

An introduction to the Fathers of the Church, from Ignatius of Antioch to John of Damascus: Writers, doctors, pastors, the Fathers of the Church

Course code: PHEN17

Professor: Dr. Srecko Koralija

Course description

This course is a course of literature. It deals with texts. It will make you read and study texts. These texts belong to a tradition: they transmit topics, ideas, methods, throughout a certain continuity, from the end of the Apostolic Age, to the beginning of Middle Ages.
And this course is also a course of theology, as the central subject of the texts we are going to deal with is God and his Revelation in the Scriptures.

Table of content

Introduction to the course
From the Bible to the Fathers
Reading the Scriptures
The beginning of theology
Heresies
Giants of the Golden Era I : Cappadocians
Giants of the Golden Era II : Alexandria and Antioch
Giants of the West
The Eastern Legacy
The Western Legacy