Questions of Patristics I [ LTHEO2321 ]

One special question pertaining to various testimonies of the ancient Christian literature, considered in its literary, dogmatic and theological aspects will be analysed; - The different extracts read during the course will be situated in their historial and theological context.

The successful student will be able to : - tackle a theological or literary question pertaining to the ancient Christian literature, mainly Greek and/or Latin; - read critically the ancient theological sources; - make use of the patrologist's main working tools.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

The topic of this second level course changes each year. For example: Jerome as a biblical scholar, the patristic interpretation of Genesis and Exodus, Song of Songs as interpreted by Origenes and Gregory of Nyssa, but also Eros and Agape according to the Fathers of the Church, and homiletics in the fourth century. Many texts of the fathers of the Church related to these topics are read and commented on during the lessons. Students learn to use the main tools in the field of patristics.

' '    BROWN D., Vir trilinguis. A study in the biblical exegesis of Saint Jerome, Kampen 1992.
'    DE MARGERIE, B., Introduction à l'histoire de l'exégèse, II, Paris 1983, p. 145-179.
'    DUVAL Y.-M., Introduction critique à JEROME, Commentaire sur Jonas (SC 323), Paris, 1985, p. 25-104.
'    HAGEMANN W., Wort als Begegnung mit Christus. Die christozentrische Schriftauslegung des Kirchenvaters Hieronymus (Trierer theologische Studien 23), Trêves, 1970.
'    HENNE Ph., Saint Jérôme, Paris, 2009.
'    JAY P., L'exégèse de Saint Jérôme d'après son Commentaire sur Isaie (Études Augustiniennes), Paris, 1985.
'    JAY P., Jérôme, lecteur de l'Écriture (Supplément au Cahier Évangile 104), Paris, 1998.
'    KAMESAR A., Jerome, Greek scholarship and the Hebrew Bible. A study of the Quaestiones Hebraicae in Genesim, Oxford, 1993.
'    PENNA A., Principi e carattere dell'esegesi di S. Gerolamo (Scripta Pontificii Instituti Biblici 102), Roma 1950.
'    REVENTLOW H., Epochen der Bibelauslegung, II, Munich, 1994, p. 39-52.

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