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COURSE CALENDAR
Class # 1, Sept
1
Topic: Introduction
to Augustine’s Life and Theology
Readings:
1.
John Paul II. Apostolic Letter
Augustinum
Hipponensem (28 Aug 1986).
2.
Possidius. Vita Augustini. [CP]
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Class # 2,
Sept 8
Topic: Biblical Interpretation
Readings:
1.
De utilitate credendi. [CP]
2.
De doctrina christiana III.
3.
De civitate Dei XV.22, 26-27;
XVIII.42-43.
Assignments:
·
Class presentation
·
Precise written statement of research topic
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Class # 3,
Sept 15
Topic: Augustinian Research
Class meeting is replaced by
a trip to the University
of Michigan’s Hatcher
Graduate Library.
Assignments:
Project # 1: Tracking down
citations
·
The Professor will provide each student with a few
words written by Augustine. The student
must find the source of these words using the Patrologia latina
database.
·
Locate and photocopy the relevant passage in the hard
copies of the Patrologia latina in the stacks.
·
Using the Clavis
patrum latinorum, locate and photocopy the relevant passage in the most
recent critical edition of the work available.
·
Locate and photocopy the most recent translation of
the relevant passage.
Project # 2: Augustinian
journals
·
Find and peruse the current issues and the issues
published in the past ten years of any Augustinian journals in the
library.
·
Find at least ten sources that are related in some way
to your research topic. These sources could be articles in the journal or books
reviewed in the journal.
Project # 3: ATLA database
·
Use the ATLA database to find at least 15 sources that
are related in some way to your research topic – the more directly the better.
Project # 4: Bibliography
·
Before or during Class # 4, provide the Professor with
a properly formatted bibliography containing the results of Project # 2 and
Project # 3 – a minimum of 25 sources. The Professor will provide examples of
bibliography formatting. Bibliographies must be divided into two sections: (1)
primary sources; and (2) secondary sources. Dictionary and encyclopedia entries
may be included, but do not count among the 25 sources.
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Class # 4, Sept
22
Topic: Faith and
Reason
Readings:
1.
Sermo
43. [CP]
2.
Epistula 118.
[CP]
3.
Sermo
51. [CP]
4.
De civitate Dei VIII.1-15
Assignments:
·
Class presentation
·
Bibliography due (see Project # 4 above)
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Class # 5, Sept
29
Topic: Doctrine of
God
Readings:
1.
Epistula 120. [CP]
2.
Sermo 186. [CP]
3.
Sermo 187. [CP]
4.
In Iohannis evangelium tractatus 21. [CP]
5.
Sermo 293.
[CP]
6.
Sermo 71.
[CP]
Assignments:
·
Class presentation
·
Formal statement in indicating progress made obtaining
items on bibliography
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Class # 6, Oct
6
Topic: Trinitarian
Theology
Reading: De Trinitate IX-XII.
Assignment: Class
presentation
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Class # 7,
Oct 13
Topic: Trinitarian
Theology
Reading: De Trinitate XIII-XIV.
Assignments:
·
Class presentation
·
Article review
- Each student will present a critical review of an
article pertaining to his or her topic.
A critical review must demonstrate thorough appropriation of the
work chosen along with insight and, where appropriate, criticism. Merely summarizing the work is
insufficient. Moreover, the student
should take care that summarizing the work, if that is desirable, does not
take up too much time, effort, and space.
- Questions to be asked include: What is the author’s thesis? What is the author’s purpose or goal
(stated or unstated)? What sources
does the author use? Is the
author’s argumentation sound (in other words, are there any leaps in
logic, guiding assumptions, etc.)?
- The appropriate length will be determined by the
student but must not exceed five (5) pages for each critical review (double spaced; 1 inch margins; 12 point
Times-New Roman font).
- The student must
provide the class with a oral presentation of his or her review which is
to last no more than twenty minutes.
- Each student must
provide the other students in the seminar and the Professor with a copy of
the article under review.
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Class # 8, Oct
20
Topic: Trinitarian Theology and Anthropology
Readings:
1.
De Trinitate XV.
2.
Epistula 187. [CP]
Assignment: Class presentation
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Class # 9, Oct 27
Topic: Anthropology and Grace
Readings:
1.
TA,
pp. 39-60.
2.
Sermo 294. [CP]
3.
Epistula 217. [CP]
Assignments:
·
Class presentation
·
Outline of paper
o Each
student must present a thorough outline of his or her final paper. This outline must be photocopied and provided
to each member of the class. The student
will explain the outline, and then other students and the professor will
provide comments.
- The final paper need
not exactly follow the outline here presented.
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Class # 10, Nov
3
Topic: Grace and
Predestination
Readings:
1.
TA, pp. 61-128.
2.
De
praedestinatione sanctorum 1-14.
Assignments:
·
Class presentation
·
Five formatted footnotes
o
Each
student must present five formatted footnotes for his or her final paper which
include at least one instance of each of the following: an essay in an edited collection; an article
in a journal; a monograph. Copies of the
footnotes must be provided for each member of the class.
o
Footnotes
must be formatted according to the "Guidelines" of Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal.
- At this point, each
student must also point out a number of sources that remain to be
consulted. These sources must be
ordered inter-library loan or obtained through library research trips. This entails knowing which books are at
which libraries.
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Class # 11, Nov 10
Topic: Ecclesiology
and the Two
Cities
Readings:
1.
Sermo 267. [CP, 3 pages]
2.
Epistula 48. [CP, 3
pages]
3.
De civitate
Dei XI.1; XIII [entire]; XIV.28; XV.1-4; XVIII.1, 49.
Assignment: Class presentation
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Class # 12, Nov 17
Topic: Sacraments
Readings:
1.
Cyprian,
Epistulae
69 and
73.
2.
De baptismo
I and
III.
Assignments:
·
First drafts and peer
reviews.
o
First Draft. Students will present
first drafts of their papers. The better and more complete these drafts are,
the higher will be the grade for both the draft and the the final product. Copies
of the drafts must be provided to all students in the seminar and to the
Professor by Midnight on the Sunday before the class meets.
o
On
the day the class meets, each student will have thirty minutes to present his
or her draft.
o
Peer Review. Each student will
produce a response to another’s draft. The response must point out strengths
and weaknesses, and include concrete proposals for improving the draft in view
of producing the final paper. The response must take the form of a twenty
minute oral presentation, and may or may not be written out. The more helpful
the response is towards producing the final paper, the higher the grade it will
receive.
- The response will be
followed by comments from the author of the draft. Then all members of the
class will be invited to discuss the draft.
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THANKSGIVING BREAK, Nov 24
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Class # 13,
Dec 1
Topic: Spirituality,
Morality and Eschatology
Readings:
1.
De sermone
Domini in monte I.1-5, II.5-11 [CP]
2.
Sermo 22. [CP]
3.
In Iohannis evangelium tractatus 9. [CP]
4.
De octo
Dulcitii quaestionibus 3. [CP]
5.
De civitate
Dei XX.
Assignment: Class presentation