Course Description

An introduction to, analysis and survey of the development of doctrine in the Western church in the the early, high, and late medieval periods. We consider several theologians in their context and pay close attention to some of the great texts from each period. Readings are drawn from Boethius, Anselm, Bernard, Abelard, Lombard, Joachim of Fiore, Aquinas, Ockham, and Bradwardine.

NB: CH602 is a pre-requisite for this course unless waived by the instructor.

Class conflict petitions will not be approved for this course.

Course Requirements:

(1) Attend all classes, complete all readings and participate in class discussion (50%). Participation for each seminar is a prerequisite for participation. Absence is permitted only with reasonable notice and explanation.

(2) Essays (50%). Limit 3000 words (approximately 9 pages). Each student shall present and defend his or her completed paper to the seminar. After reading the paper to the seminar, the student shall revise and re-submit it to the instructor for a final mark. The final paper is by 10:00 a.m. on the last day of classes.

Requirements: Each student shall supply a copy of his or her paper to each member of the seminar 24 hours in advance of the meeting of class so that the members of the seminar will have time to read it.

Penalties: Students who do not meet the class time deadline shall be marked down 1/2 grade. An essay shall be marked down a full grade for every day it is late for either the seminar or the final deadline.

Required Readings>

E. R. Fairweather, trans. and ed., A Scholastic Miscellany Anselm to Ockham (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1956), 100-183, 276-99.

Bernard of Clairvaux, On Grace and Free Choice, trans. Daniel O' Donovan (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications 1988), 51-111.

Peter Lombard, Sentences in Four Books in E. R. Fairweather, trans. and ed., A Scholastic Miscellany Anselm to Ockham (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1956), 334-51.

Aquinas, Summa Theologiae:

1a, Questions 1-10, 14-25, 75-83, 95-97;

1a2ae, 1-3, 21, 49-53, 55-58, 61-63, 88, 106-114;

2a2ae, 1-7, 17-18, 23-25, 164-165;

3a 1-5, 7-20, 24, 41-50, 60-63, 65-66, 68-69, 72-77, 79-80, 84, 86, 89.

Scotus in E. R. Fairweather, trans. and ed., A Scholastic Miscellany Anselm to Ockham (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1956), 428-36

Ockham in E. R. Fairweather, trans. and ed., A Scholastic Miscellany Anselm to Ockham (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1956), 437-42.

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