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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†
____________________________________________________________________________________________ The Apostolic Fathers
Class 1, Monday January 16 First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
____________________________________________________________________________________________ Apologists and Martyrs
___________________________________________ 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
____________________________________________________________________________________________ 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]
___________________________________________ SPRING BREAK: March 6-10
____________________________________________________________________________________________ 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
____________________________________________________________________________________________ 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
____________________________________________________________________________________________ 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
___________________________________________ EASTER MONDAY: April 17 -- No class
*** SECOND PAPER DUE vi e-mail attachment on Friday April 21 ___________________________________________
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
___________________________________________ 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.
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