GREAT THEOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES SPRING 2010 3rd QUARTER STUDENT SYLLABUS (Each chapter will include a Reading of the Sources, Seminar Discussion, Lecture, Notes, Question/Answer Format, Essay, and a Test) Week Content January 5-8 The Theological Ideas of Anselm, William of Ockham, and Thomas Aquinas: Proofs for the Existence of God Anselm of Canterbury: Proslogion Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae William of Ockham: Philosophical Writings Jan 11-15 The Incarnational Theology of Anselm, Abailard, and Aquinas: Reason and Faith Anselm: Why God Became Man Peter Abailard: Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae January 19-22 Pre-Reformation Preview: Grace and Free Will Robert Holcot: Lectures on the Wisdom of Solomon Thomas Bradwardine: The Cause of God Against the Pelagians Jan. 25-29 On Faith and Works: Catholicism and Lutheranism Martin Luther: The Freedom of a Christian Thomas de Vio aka Cardinal Cajetan: Faith and Works - Against the Lutherans Feb. 1-5 On Faith and Works: Catholicism and Lutheranism The Augsburg Confession The Formula of Concord The Council of Trent: Decree on Justification Feb. 8-12 Ecclesiology: Catholicism and Reformed Protestantism John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion Ignatius of Loyola: Rules for Thinking with the Church The Five Arminian Articles Feb. 16-19 Theology in the Enlightenment: Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone vs. Fideism Rene Descartes: Meditations Blaise Pascal: Pensees John Locke: The Reasonableness of Christianity Feb. 22-26 Theology in the Enlightenment: Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone vs. Fideism Rene Descartes: Meditations Blaise Pascal: Pensees John Locke: The Reasonableness of Christianity Mar. 1-5 Theology in the Enlightenment: Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone vs. Fideism Matthew Tindal: Christianity as Old as Creation David Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Immanuel Kant: Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone March 8-12 Theology in the Enlightenment: Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone vs. Fideism Immanuel Kant: Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone Philip Jacob Spener: Pia Desideria John Wesley: The Scripture Way of Salvation:Predestination Calmy Considered GREAT THEOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES: THE SHAPING OF THE WESTERN MIND 4th QUARTER SPRING 2010 (Each chapter will include a Reading of the Sources, Seminar Discussion, Lecture, Notes, Question/Answer Format, Essay, and a Test) March 22-26 Theology in the Nineteenth Century Gotthold Lessing: On Proof of the Spirit and the Power Friedrich Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultures Despisers David Friedrich Strauss: The Life of Jesus Critically Examined Ludwig Feuerbach: Lectures on the Essence of Religion Mar. 29-31 Theology in the Nineteenth Century David Friedrich Strauss: The Life of Jesus Critically Examined Ludwig Feuerbach: Lectures on the Essence of Religion Soren Kierkegaard: Attack Upon "Christendom" John Henry Newman: Apologia Pro Vita Sua April 6-9 Theology in the Nineteenth Century Soren Kierkegaard: Attack Upon "Christendom" John Henry Newman: Apologia Pro Vita Sua Adolf Harnack: What is Christianity Ernst Troeltsch: The Place of Christianity Among the World Religions April 12-16 Theology in the Nineteenth Century Adolf Harnack: What is Christianity Ernst Troeltsch: The Place of Christianity Among the World Religions First Vatican Council: First Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ Albert Schweitzer: The Quest of the Historical Jesus April 19-23 Theology Done the American Way: Puritanism, Deism and Transcendentalism John Winthrop: A Model of Christian Charity Thomas Hooker: The Activity of Faith; or Abraham's Imitators Jonathan Edwards: Personal Narrative David Walker: Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Preachers of Jesus Christ William Ellery Channing: The Essence of the Christian Religion April 26-30 Theology Done the American Way: Puritanism, Deism and Transcendentalism Charles Grandison Finney: Lectures on Revivals of Religion Sarah Grimke: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Divinity School Address Mary Baker Eddy: Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Joseph Smith: King Follett Discourse Horace Bushnell: Christian Nurture May 3-7 Twentieth Century Theology: Liberalism, Neo- Orthodoxy, and Neo-Thomism (individual student choices: the class will choose among the following readings) Karl Barth: Church Dogmatics Paul Tillich: Systematic Theology Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Letters and Papers from Prison Reinhold Niebuhr: Christianity and Power Politics Rudolf Bultmann: New Testament and Mythology Charles Hodge: Systematic Theology Jurgen Moltmann: The Crucified God May 10-14 Twentieth Century Theology: Liberalism, Neo- Orthodoxy, and Neo-Thomism (individual student choices: the class will choose among the following readings) Alfred North Whitehead: Process and Reality Stanley Jaki: Science and Creation Etienne Gilson: Thomist Realism and the Critique of Knowledge Karl Rahner: In Search of a Short Formula of the Christian Faith Joseph Ratzinger: A response to Rahner's Short Formula Second Vatican Council: Lumen Gentium May 17-21 Exam Week