Saturday Mornings 9:00am – 12:00pm Holy Name Heights Madison, Wisconsin Advanced Track Course of Studies The Fathers of the Church COURSE BOOK rd Mike Aquilina, The Fathers of the Church: An Introduction to the First Christian Teachers, 3 edition (Our Sunday Visitor, 2013). The World of the Fathers: Introduction Reading assignments Oct What is a father?; who are the fathers?; the fathers and the gospel; the gospel The Fathers of the and the gospels; the fathers at the altars; family unity; the witness of blood; Church, 17–53. 16 the fathers’ wayward children; the councils and creeds; the fathers today. Nov The Apostolic Fathers: The Gospel’s First Echo The Fathers of the Church, 55–79. 10 St. Clement of Rome; St. Ignatius; St. Polycarp; Hermas The Ante-Nicene Fathers: The Church Finds a Voice The Fathers of the Dec St. Aristides; St. Justin Martyr; St. Melito; St. Theophilus; St. Athenagoras; Church, 81–146. 18 St. Irenaeus; Tertullian; St. Hippolytus; St. Cyprian; St. Clement of Alexandria; Origen; St. Dionysius the Great; St. Methodius; Lactantius. The Fourth Century: The Golden Age of Doctrine I The Fathers of the Jan Eusebius of Caesarea; St. Athanasius; St. Aphrahat the Sage; St. Ephrem; St. Church, 147–187. 15 Basil the Great; St. Gregory of Nazianzus; St. Gregory of Nyssa; St. Asterius. Feb The Fourth Century: The Golden Age of Doctrine II The Fathers of the Church, 187–203. 19 St. Cyril of Jerusalem; St. Pacian; St. Ambrose. The Later Fathers: The Church and the Changing World I The Fathers of the Mar St. Epiphanius; St. John Chrysostom; St. John Cassian; Theodore of Church, 205–258. 19 Mopsuestia; St. Cyril of Alexandria; St. Jerome; St. Chromatius; St. Augustine. The Later Fathers: The Church and the Changing World II The Fathers of the Church, 258–312. Apr Prudentius; St. Paulinus; St. Vincent, St. Leo the Great; St. Peter Chrysologus; St. Jacob; St. Romanus the Singer; St. Benedict; St. Venantius 23 Fortunatus; St. Gregory the Great; Dionysius the Areopagite; St. Maximus the Confessor; St. Isidore; St. John of Damascus. May The Mothers The Fathers of the Church, 313–321. 21 St. Perpetua; St. Syncletica; Egeria the Pilgrim. Register at www.madisondiocese.org/seatofwisdom .