Questions of Patristics I

Teacher(s)

Auwers Jean-Marie;

Language

French

Main themes

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.

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	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”.

Content

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.

Other information

This course is frozen in 2018-2019.

Bibliography

Bochet I., «Le firmament de l'Écriture». L'herméneutique augustinienne(Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Série Antiquité, 172), Paris, 2004.
BoriP. C., L'interprétation infinie. L'herméneutique chrétienne et ses transformations, Paris, Cerf, 1991 (éd. originale italienne, 1987).
FiedrowiczM., Principes de l'interprétation de l'Écriture dans l'Église ancienne (Traditio christiana, 10), Berne, 1999.
Pelletier A.-M., D'âge en âge, les Ecritures : la Bible et l'herméneutique contemporaine (Le livre et le rouleau, 18), Bruxelles, 2004.
Écriture et Tradition chez les Pères de l'Église, sous la direction de M. Stavrou et J. van Rossum (Cahiers de Biblia Patristica, 17), Turnhout, 2017.

Faculty or entity

TEBI