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INTRODUCTION
to
PATRISTICS
(1)
CLASSICAL
FOUNDATIONS:
Visions of Heaven and the Ascent to God.
Plato, “The Parable of the Caves” and “The Myth of Er” (Republic).
(2)
JEWISH
FOUNDATIONS:
The Scriptures and Salvation.
Philo of Alexandria on the Therapeutae and the Essenes. The Book
of Enoch.
(3)
JEWISH
CHRISTIANITY:
The Early Christian Church.
Clement of Rome and The Letter of Barnabas.
(4)
THE
MISSIONARY
CHURCH:
Christian and Roman Visions of Truth.
Cicero, “The Dream of Scipio”(Republic); Justin Martyr.
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(5)
THE PERSECUTED
CHURCH:
The Christian Witness to the Roman
World.
Ignatius of Antioch; Pliny and
Trajan on the Punishment of Christians; Polycarp of Smyrna; Abericius;
The Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicity; Cyprian of Carthage.
(6)
THE CHURCH
as a
DEVELOPING
INSTITUTION:
Intellectual Challenges and Emerging
Orthodoxy. The Didache;
Hippolytus;
Tertullian; Apostolic Constitutions
(7)
THE
BEGINNINGS
of
MYSTICAL
THEOLOGY:
Christian Neo-Platonism:
Irenaeus,
Plotinus; Clement of
Alexandria; Origen.
(8)
THE VICTORY
of CONSTANTINE:
The Council of Nicea and The Arian
Christian Empire.
Athanasius.
(9)
THE TRIUMPH
of NICENE
ORTHODOXY:
The Union of Dogmatic and Mystical
Theology. Basil;
Gregory Nazianzen; Gregory of Nyssa.
(10)
SYRIAN
CHRISTIANITY:
The Harp of the Spirit.
Aphraates of Persia; Ephrem
the deacon; Isaac of Ninevah.
(11)
CHRISTIAN
MONASTICISM :
The Desert and the City.
Antony, Pachomius, Evagrius; The Sayings (Apophthegmata)
and Lives of the Desert Fathers; John Cassian.
(12)
CHRISTOLOGICAL
CONTROVERSIES:
The Origenist Crises.
The Councils of Constantinople, Ephesus, and Chalcedon. Cyril of Alexandria,
Leo the Great.
(13)
THE DEVELOPMENT
of LATIN
CHRISTIAN
THOUGHT:
Christians - Barbarian and Roman.
Ambrose, Augustine, Benedict,
Cassiodorus, Caesarius of Arles.
(14)
THE ISOLATION
of the WEST:
the Papacy, and the Rise of Byzantium.
Columban, Gregory the Great, Justinian.
(15)
CHRISTIAN
ART and
LITURGY:
the Further Development of Mystical Theology.
The mosaics of Ravenna and St.
Katherine's Monastery, Sinai. Diadochus of Photike; John Climacus; Dionysius the
Areopagite; Maximus Confessor.
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