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Syllabus (Christology and Mariology, Fall 2014) ! NOTRE DAME SEMINARY ! SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY Professor: Dr. David Liberto Class: Christology and Mariology e-mail: [email protected] Time: Saturday (7:30am-4:30pm) !Office hours: Saturday, 12-1pm Classroom: Room 3 DT 506 - Christology and Mariology Syllabus ! ! !I. Course Description This course treats the theology of the person and mission of Jesus Christ. While providing the biblical foundation for an understanding of Christ, the course is primarily directed to studying Christology from a historico-dogmatic perspective. The course will examine important texts such as the De Incarnatione of St. Athanasius, the De Fide of St. John Damscene, and selections from the Summa theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas. An essential Mariology will also be covered. The course examines the various Marian dogmas and the relation of Mariology to other !dogmatic areas such as Ecclesiology, Soteriology, and Spiritual Theology. !II. Rationale The person and work of Christ is the foundation of the Christian faith. This central mystery is important for understanding other theological loci such as the Trinity, grace, and the sacraments. For seminarians studying for the priesthood, knowledge of the person and work of Christ is indispensable for understanding the vocation of the priest who is called to minister in persona !Christi. !III. Envisioned Outcomes • Students will understand the problems and solutions in the Patristic development of Christology ! up to the Council of Chalcedon. !1 • Students will be able to identify the subsequent Christological problems after Chalcedon and the Church’s theological response. • Students will understand the various contributions to Christology in the Scholastic period. • Students will be able to evaluate modern christologies in light of the Catholic tradition. • Students will be able to articulate an essential Mariology based on the dogmatic teaching of the ! Church. !IV. Instructional Methods • Lecture • Presentations • Discussion !V. Requirements A. Read all assignments and be prepared to discuss them in class. B. Class presentation (11/22)– Students present a critical summary of an assigned article or a synopsis of their research from doing the Research Paper C. Exam (11/1) – Students will be asked to write in-class essays on various questions. D. Research Paper (due the last day of class (e-format preferred) – See the Research Paper Guideline Sheet for more information on what is required for the assignment. One should also consult the Research Paper Grading Rubric for grading criteria. !VI. Texts A. Christology Reader B. Other primary and secondary texts as assigned. These will be sent to the students as PDF files via email. Students should always have needed texts available for class (e-version or ! hard copy). !VII. Bibliography Anatolios, Khaled. “Yes and No: Reflections on Lewis Ayres, Nicaea and Its Legacy.” Harvard Theological Review 100/2 (2007): 153-58. Armstrong, A. H. “The Plotinian Doctrine of "#$% in Patristic Theology.” Vigiliae Christianae 8/4 (1954): 134-38. Ayres, Lewis. “Athanasius' Initial Defense of the Term Ὁµ''()*'+: Rereading the De Decretis.” Journal of Early Christian Studies 12/ 3 (2004): 337-59. ________. “The Christological Context of Augustine,s De Trinitate XIII: Toward Relocating Books VIII-XV.” Augustinian Studies 29/1 (1998): 111-39. Bathrellos, David. The Byzantine Christ: Person, Nature, and Will in the Christology of St. Maximus the Confessor. Oxford Early Christian Studies Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Bauckham, R. God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. !2 Brown, H. O. J. Heresies: The Image of Christ in the Mirror of Heresy and Orthodoxy from the Apostles to the Present. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984. Brown, R. E. The Birth of the Messiah. London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1977. ________. Jesus, God and Man. New York: Macmillan, 1967. ________. The Virginal Conception and Bodily Resurrection of Jesus. New York: Paulist, 1973. Cross, Richard. The Metaphysics of the Incarnation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Cullmann, O. The Christology of the New Testament. Translated by Shirley Guthrie and Hans Hall. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1963. Dunn, J. D. G. Christology in the Making: An Inquiry into the Origins of the Doctrine of the Incarnation. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996. Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P., Reginald. The Mother of the Saviour and Our Interior Life. Translated by Bernard Kelly. St. Louis: Herder, 1949. Gockel, Matthias. “A Dubious Christological Formula?: Leontius of Byzantium and the Anhypostasis—Enhypostasis Theory.” Journal of Theological Studies 51/2 (2000): 515-32. Kasper, Walter. Jesus the Christ. London and New York: T&T Clark International, 2011. Kelly, J.N.D. Early Christian Doctrines. 5th edition. New York: Continuum, 2000. Kereszty, Roch. Jesus Christ: Fundamentals of Christology. Alba House, 2002. McGrath. A. The Making of Modern German Christology. Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1986. McGuckin, John A. St. Cyril of Alexandria: the Christological Controversy: Its History, Theology and Texts. NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2004. Ocariz, F., et al. The Mystery of Jesus Christ. Dublin, Ireland: Four Courts Press, 1991. O’Collins, G. Christology: A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Study of Jesus Christ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Rahner, Karl. “Chalkedon: Ende oder Anfang?” In Das Konzil von Chalkedon, Vol. III. Edited by Alois Grillmeier. Echter-Verlag, 1954. Ratzinger, J. Daughter Zion: Meditations on the Church’s Marian Belief. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1983. ________. Jesus of Nazareth. New York: Doubleday, 2007. Semmelroth, S.J., Otto. Mary: Archetype of the Church. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1963. Studer, Basil. Trinity and Incarnation: The Faith of the Early Church. Edited by Andrew Louth. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1994. van Beeck, Franz Josef. Christ Proclaimed: Christology as Rhetoric. In Theological Inquiries Series. New York: Paulist Press, 1979. van Loon. Hans. The Diophysite Christology of Cyril of Alexandria. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009. von Balthasar, Hans Urs. Mysterium Paschale: The Mystery of Easter. Translated by Aidan Nichols. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmanns, 1993. Witherington, Ben. The Christology of Jesus. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress Publishers !1990. !VIII. Glossary of Philosophical and Theological Terms adoptionism – the general name applied to any Christological heresy which denies the natural and eternal sonship of Christ, but forwards a view of Christ as an adopted son. !3 anhypostatic – a term applied to the humanity of Christ, which although an integral human nature, does not terminate in a human hypostasis or person. Apollinarianism – a Christological heresy named for Apollinaris of Laodiciea which understood that the Logos assumed an incomplete human nature, the Logos taking the place of the intellective soul. Arianism – a Christological/Trinitarian heresy named for the presbyter, Arius of Alexandria, which denied the deity of Christ. Arius’s phrase, “There was a time when he (the Logos) was not,” was condemned at the Council of Nicaea in 325. communicatio idiomata (communication of idioms or properties) – based on the hypostatic union, this refers to the ability to predicate of Christ (the person) properties of both the human and divine natures. The expression, “God died on the cross,” is true based on the communication of idioms. Co-Redemptrix – a title applied to Our Lady based on the role she plays in the redemption of mankind. This role, however, is qualitatively different from, and dependent upon, the role played by Christ as the Redeemer of the world. Docetism (Gr. δοkεῖν- to seem or appear) – Christological heresy of the first centuries of the Church which understood the Incarnation (and therefore the Passion and Resurrection) as mere appearances by the Son of God in the economy. Ebionites – a Jewish-Christian sect of the Apostolic Period that denied the natural generation of Christ, thereby denying the full divinity of the Second Person of the Trinity. Eutychianism – Christological heresy named after the monk Eutyches which posited that over- emphasized the unity of the two natures in Christ so as to fuse the two into one theandric nature. fomes peccati – a term used to describe the disordered inclination to sin as a result of original sin. hypostasis (Gr. ὑ./)01)*+) – a philosophical term that developed within the Trinitarian controversies of the 4th century and again in the Christological controversies of the 5th century. Originally having the same or similar sense as ousia (Gr. ὀυσία), the term came to be distinguished from ousia by the Cappadocians. At Chalcedon (451), Christ is described as one hypostasis in two natures. hypostatic union – a term referring to the union of the two natures of Christ in the person (hypostasis) of the Word. Immaculate Conception – a title and teaching applied to Mary based on the fact that she was conceived without the stain of original sin in view of the future merits of Christ. Kenotic Christology – descriptive of various christologies of the 19th century that applied the emptying (Gr. κένωσις) of Christ, as described in Phil 2:6-11, to the divinity of Christ. logos anthropos Christology – a type of Christology, usually identified with Antioch, that stressed the full and integral human nature. logos sarx Christology – a type of Christology, usually identified with Alexandria, that stressed the union of the Logos with the humanity of Christ. Mediatrix – a title used by various popes (Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XI) to describe the real but derivative role of Mary in the mediation of graces. χριστός Gk. ) – a Hebrew word meaning anointed. A term/title used of ; משיח .Messiah (Hb kings and priests in the OT. !4 Mixed Relation – a philosophical concept developed in the Scholastic Period to describe the unequal relations between two things, whereby the relation from one thing to the other is real, but the relation of the second thing to the first is merely logical. A prime example is mixed relation between the knower and the thing known. Monoergism (Gr. µόνος- one, alone and ἐ789:;*1- activity) – a Christological error that asserted only one theandric activity of the Word Incarnate.
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