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Corso Di Storia Della Chiesa Di Roma (II Anno) Corso di storia della chiesa di Roma (II anno) Roma in età patristica, da Giustino martire ad Agostino d'Ippona Indice Prefazione..................................................................................................................................................1 I. Basilica di S. Pudenziana in Roma........................................................................................................3 I.1. Le Terme Timotine, possibile residenza e luogo di insegnamento di san Giustino.........................................................3 I.2. I Padri apologisti .............................................................................................................................................................4 I.3. La Prima Apologia indirizzata ad Antonino Pio .............................................................................................................5 I.4. Libertà e ragione nel dibattito pubblico sulla verità di Dio ............................................................................................6 I.5. La critica cristiana degli idoli e la conseguente accusa di ateismo rivolta ai cristiani ...................................................7 I.6. La partecipazione dei cristiani alla vita pubblica ...........................................................................................................9 I.7. La nuova vita condotta dai cristiani ..............................................................................................................................10 I.8. Il Logos che i filosofi cercano è Gesù Cristo ...............................................................................................................10 I.9. I Logoi spermatikoi ......................................................................................................................................................12 I.10. Il Dialogo con il giudeo Trifone ed il racconto autobiografico di Giustino ...............................................................13 I.11. Il battesimo e l’eucarestia al tempo di Giustino .........................................................................................................15 I.12. Il processo di Giustino e dei suoi compagni ...............................................................................................................16 I.13. Il portale della basilica di S. Pudenziana ....................................................................................................................19 I.14. Il mosaico di S. Pudenziana ........................................................................................................................................21 I.15. La Cappella Caetani ...................................................................................................................................................23 I.16. L’Oratorio mariano .....................................................................................................................................................23 II. S. Pietro in Montorio in Roma............................................................................................................25 II.1. Marcione, Valentino e gli gnostici, Ireneo ed i loro legami con Roma .......................................................................25 II.2. Marcione .....................................................................................................................................................................26 II.3. Valentino e gli gnostici ................................................................................................................................................30 II.4. Lo gnosticismo presuppone e sviluppa il Logos di Giovanni .....................................................................................32 II.5. Lo gnosticismo rifiuta l’importanza della creazione e della storia .............................................................................34 II.6. Le conseguenze dei sistemi gnostici ...........................................................................................................................36 II.7. Ireneo di Lione ............................................................................................................................................................37 II.8. L’Adversus haereses: «la vittoria contro le eresie consiste nel manifestare le loro dottrine» ....................................38 II.9. La Tradizione della chiesa è pubblica e deriva dagli apostoli .....................................................................................39 II.10. I quattro vangeli ed il Credo ......................................................................................................................................43 II.11. La creazione come opera di Dio e la conseguente visione dell’uomo ......................................................................44 II.12. La comunione della chiesa nelle legittime diversità: la questione della datazione della Pasqua ..............................46 II.13. Visita della basilica di S. Pietro in Montorio: la facciata ..........................................................................................47 II.14. Gli affreschi di Sebastiano Del Piombo nella cappella Borgherini ...........................................................................47 II.15. S. Pietro in Montorio: le altre cappelle .....................................................................................................................48 II.16. Il Tempietto del Bramante .........................................................................................................................................49 II.17. Il Gianicolo e la Fontana dell’Acqua Paola (Fontanone) ..........................................................................................50 Indice i III. Basilica di S. Lorenzo fuori le mura in Roma...................................................................................53 III.1. Introduzione alla storia della basilica di S. Lorenzo fuori le mura, di Marco Valenti ...............................................53 III.2. Le persecuzioni di Decio e Valeriano, di Andrea Lonardo ........................................................................................54 III.3. La persecuzione di Decio ed i libelli .........................................................................................................................56 III.4. L’epistolario di Cipriano di Cartagine .......................................................................................................................57 III.5. I martiri, i confessori ed i lapsi ..................................................................................................................................59 III.6. La questione dei lapsi ................................................................................................................................................60 III.7. L’unità della chiesa ....................................................................................................................................................64 III.8. La questione del battesimo ........................................................................................................................................65 III.9. La persecuzione di Valeriano e la morte di S. Lorenzo .............................................................................................66 III.10. Il martirio di S. Cipriano ..........................................................................................................................................68 III.11. La facciata ed il portico della basilica di S. Lorenzo, di Marco Valenti ..................................................................70 III.12. Gli affreschi del portico, di Marco Valenti ..............................................................................................................71 III.13. L’iscrizione dedicata a Pio XII ed il sepolcro di Alcide De Gasperi, di Andrea Lonardo .......................................76 III.14. L’interno della basilica di S. Lorenzo, di Marco Valenti .........................................................................................78 III.15. La cripta con la tomba e le reliquie ..........................................................................................................................80 III.16. La basilica pelagiana ................................................................................................................................................81 III.17. La sepoltura di Pio IX ..............................................................................................................................................82 III.18. Il chiostro romanico .................................................................................................................................................82 III.19. Per un pellegrinaggio in Roma sui passi di S. Lorenzo ...........................................................................................83 IV. Il Battistero Lateranense in Roma.....................................................................................................85 IV.1. Introduzione al battistero di S. Giovanni in Laterano, di Marco Valenti ...................................................................85 IV.2. Costantino imperatore e la libertà dei cristiani, di Andrea Lonardo ..........................................................................86
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