Courses in the Theology:

THEO 1321 … Western Theological Tradition I.  Beginning with the Greeks Hesiod, Plato and Aristotle, who pondered God and the gods, this course offers an introductory intellectual consideration of theological tradition regarding the nature, significance, duties, and destiny of man in his relation to God as that tradition was taught by such great witnesses and scholars as the Apostolic Fathers, St. Justin, St. Irenaeus, St. Augustine, St. John of Damascus, St. Anselm, and  St. Thomas.

THEO 1322 … The Bible.  This seminar studies the images and themes of the Bible as revealed literature that has been the single most fruitful source for knowledge of things human and divine.  On the basis of a careful reading and following a literary and theological methodology, the Bible is studied for its moral and theological significance.

THEO 2321 … Western Theological Tradition II.  The development of theology from Occam to the twentieth century, including texts and selections by Luther, Calvin, Chateaubriand, Strauss, C. S. Lewis, Tolkien, Waugh, and Charles Williams, and the theology of the Catholic revival: Maritain, Guardini, Adam, and von Balthasar.

THEO 2322 … Western Spiritual Tradition.  Reviewing the Christian tradition of spiritual life, this course requires study of the books of Romans and I John from the Bible, the epistles of St. Clement of Rome and St. Ignatius of Antioch, Originís On Prayer, St. John Cassianís Conferences, The Steps of Humility of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, and selected works from William of St. Thierry, Blessed Henry Suso, Julian of Norwich, Thomas ý Kempis, Thomas Traherne, and St. Francis de Sales.  The focus of this course is the objective influence of Christian spiritual tradition in the intellectual history of the Mediterranean culture.

THEO JS321 … Early Church Fathers.  This course offers an opportunity to master at an intermediate level selections from the theological literature of the Greek East in which were treated important issues such as God, Christology, images, and the incorporation of philosophy in a larger Christian wisdom.  Readings include St. Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on Luke; St. Cyril of Jerusalem, On the Christian Sacraments; Dionysius the Areopagite, Divine Names, Heavenly Hierarchies, Mystical Theology; Melito of Sardis, On the Passover; and St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word.

THEO JS322 … St. Augustine and Augustinianism.  This course presents in English selected texts fundamental to St. Augustineís thought and to the Latin Augustinian tradition, and investigates the importance of Augustinian themes in the intellectual history of the West.  This course includes  St. Augustineís Confessions, On the Free Choice of the Will and other selected readings.

THEO JS323 … St. Thomas Aquinas and the Thomist Tradition.  This course is a study of selected questions and treatises that define the themes central to the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and to the influence of Thomism.  Theologically and historically important questions from the Summa Theologiae and the Summa Contra Gentiles and other selected works are studied and the influence and history of St. Thomasí thought before the 19th century revival of Scholasticism are investigated.

THEO JS324 … Newman and Modernity.  This course has as its subject John Henry Newman, his biography and intellectual biography, his contribution to the Oxford Movement and to Catholic theology, and his role as a major and prophetic expositor of the theological themes of modernity.  Readings include Newmanís Apologia pro Vita Sua, The Idea of a University, and Lectures on Justification.

THEO JS325 … Topis in Theology.  Topics outside the courses that make up the required curriculum and are approved by the Fellows are offered from time to time. These courses do not fulfill degree requirements unless approved for this purpose by the Dean of registration.

THEO JS326 … Old Testament.  The literary and exegetical study of texts from Wisdom Literature, Major Prophets and the Apocrypha.

THEO JS327 … New Testament.  Tht literary and exegetical study of texts from the Gospels, Acts, The Pauline and Catholic Epistles, and the Apocalypse.