WESTERN THEOLOGICAL TRADITION

INTERACTIVE ONLINE SYLLABUS

THL 301, Spring 2006

 

Meeting Times:  W 6:30-9:30 p.m.

Meeting Place:  Academic Building 105

 

Professor:  Daniel G. Van Slyke, S.T.L., Ph.D.

Office:  Gabriel Hall 107                                                           

Phone:  734-337-4193

 

FIRST PAPER:  "Fr. John Corapi’s Amazing Story" must be ordered online through the Mary Foundation.  

 

Follow Antiphon's GUIDELINES for citations when writing papers. 

 

NOTE:  If you discover problems with any of the links on the Course Calendar below, please contact the Instructor immediately. 

 

 

COURSE CALENDAR

 

 

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The Apostolic Fathers

 

Class 1, Monday January 16

First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians  

The Didache

 

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Apologists and Martyrs

 

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MARCH FOR LIFE:  January 23 -- no class

 

 

Class 2, Monday January 30

Justin Martyr, First Apology, chapters 1-32 

Irenaeus, Against Heresies, Book IV, chapter 26 only 

 Tertullian, On the Flesh of Christ 

The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity 

 

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Patristic Period

 

Class 3, Monday February 6

Augustine, Confessions, I-IV

 

Class 4, Monday February 13

Augustine, Confessions, IV-VIII

 

Class 5, Monday February 20

Augustine, Confessions, IX-XII

Ambrosian Hymns:  Aeterne rerum conditor Splendor paternae gloriae and Iam sol recedit igneus 

 

Class 6, Monday February 27

Augustine, Confessions, XIII

Jerome, The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary 

 MIDTERM EXAM [final two hours of class]

 

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SPRING BREAK:  March 6-10 

 

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Early Middle Ages

 

Class 7, Monday March 13  

Benedict of Nursia, Rule, entire 

 Gregory the Great, Pastoral Rule, Part I (entire), Part II.1-5, Part III.1-5, and Part IV (entire)

 *** FIRST PAPER DUE

 

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High Middles Ages and Scholasticism

 

Class 8, Monday March 20

Anselm of Canterbury, Monologion, entire

Fourth Lateran Council, Canons I-IV 

 

Class 9, Monday March 27

Peter Lombard, Sentences, Prologue, Distinction I and Distinction II  

Bernard of Clairvaux, On the Love of God

 Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae, I, q. 48

 

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Late Scholasticism, Protestantism, and Trent

 

Class 10, Monday April 3

William of Ockham, Dialogus, Part I, prologue and book 1 

Martin Luther, The Freedom of The Christian Man

Bull of Pope Leo X Exsurge Domine (15 June 1520) 

Augsburg Confession, articles I-XXII

 

Class 11, Monday April 10

The Schleitheim Confession of Faith

John Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion, III.21, III.22, and III.23 

 Act of Supremacy 

The Thirty-Nine Articles 

 

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EASTER MONDAY:  April 17 -- No class  

 

*** SECOND PAPER DUE vi e-mail attachment on Friday April 21

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Class 12, Monday April 24

Council of Trent, Session V, decree concerning original sin 

Council of Trent, Session VI, decree and canons on justification 

Council of Trent, Session VII, decree and canons concerning the sacraments

Council of Trent, Session XXII, decree and canons concerning the sacrifice of the Mass

Documents of the First Vatican Council  

The Syllabus of Errors Lamentabili sane  

 

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FINAL EXAM:  to be held during the exam period, April 29 – May 3

 

 

 

†  The Professor reserves the right to make substitutions, deletions, or additions to the schedule of readings. 

 

 

 

in te domine speravi non confundar in aeternum


© 2007 Daniel G. Van Slyke