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History of Christian Doctrine 451-1650
Religion 721b

Marilyn McCord Adams
330 Porter, Yale Divinity School #2-5338
320 Temple Street, Religious Studies, #2-0828

Week 1.1

INTRODUCTION
              Introductory Handout
ST. ANSELM of CANTERBURY (1033-1109): A Christian Platonism

Anselm's Life and Works

Method in Philosophical Theology
              Monologion, Preface; Proslogion (entire); Why God Became Man, Preface, end of I.10 & end of I.25.

Week 1.2

Mediating the Metaphysics of Goodness
              Monologion, chs. 1-3, 15-17, 29-33
              Anselm's Monologion Arguments
              The Supreme Nature's Essence

Week 2.1

Rational Agency and the Possibility of Sin
              Monologion, chs. 66-77: Why God Became Man II.1-4; Fall of the Devil, chs. 12-14; De ConcordiaIII, 11-14.

Week 2.2

Sin, the Fall, and its Consequences
              Why God Became Man I.11-15, 19-24; Proslogion, ch. 1; Virgin Conception and Original Sin, chs.1-11.
              Anselm and the Honor Code

Week 3.1

Satisfying Mercy: the Dynamics of Satisfaction
              Why God Became Man I.1-15, 19-24; II (entire); Prayers to Mary and to St. Paul [packet]

PETER ABELARD (1079-1142): Dialectic and Scripture

Abelard's Life and Works

Week 3.2
Varieties of Evaluation
Sin Within
              Selections from Know Thyself in Fairweather's Scholastic Miscellany (=SM), 288-297.
              Love's Appeal
              Selections from Abelard's Romans-commentary in SM, 276-287

Week 4.1

BONAVENTURE (ca 1217-1274): Franciscan Platonism

Bonaventure's Life and Works


Week 4.1
              The Mind's Journey into God (entire)
              The Itinerarium
              Bonaventure's Metaphysics in Outline

ARISTOTELIAN TURNS: Aquinas (1225-1274),
Scotus (1266-1308), Ockham (1285-1347)
Ockham

Aquinas' Integration:

All readings in Aquinas except for those about eucharistic theology are found in Fairweather's Aquinas on Nature and Grace

             Aquinas' Life and Works

Week 4.2
Faith and Reason
              Summa Theologica (=ST) I,q.1,aa.1-2, 7-8, 10; I-II,qq.1-3.

Proofs from Being, Act and Potency: Divine Existence and Attributes
              ST I, q.2,aa.1-3; q.3,aa.1-8; [q.25]
              Aquinas' Proofs

Week 5.1

Goodness and its Reflections
              ST I,q.20,aa.3-4: q.21, aa.1,3,4; q.22,aa.1-4: q.23,aa.1,3,5-8

Week 5.2

Created Rational Agency, Sin, and its Consequences
              ST I-II, q.82,a.1; q.85,aa.1-6

Week 6.1

Nature, Grace, and Justification
              ST I-II, qq.109-110 (entire); q.112,a.5; q.113,aa.1-6,10; q.114,aa.1,3; II-II, q.23,a.2.

Week 6.2

The Metaphysics of the Eucharist
              ST III,qq.60-62,64; 73-77. [packet]

FRANCISCAN VARIATIONS:

Week 7.1
Natural Theology, Rational Agency, Morals and Merit
             Scotus' Life and Works
             Ockham's Life and Works
              Scotus, Quodlibeta, q.17 in God and Creatures (trans Alluntis and Wolter), 388-398.
              Ockham, Quodlibeta III,q.19 (in Freddoso's trans, vol. I, 229-34); Quodl. VI,qq.1-2,4 (Freddoso, vol. II, 491-97, 500-502). [packet]

Week 7.2

Divine Love, Reorganized
              Scotus, Ord. III,d.7,q.3;d.19;d.32 (in Franciscan Christology, ed. by Damian McElrath; trans. by Wolter, 146-159)
             Scotus on the Structure of Divine Love
              Ockham, Treatise on Predestination, God's Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents, trans. Adams and Kretzmann (entire).

Week 8.1

MYSTICAL TRANSITIONS

Julian of Norwich (1343-1413/15)
             Revelations of Divine Love
              Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510) Treatise on Purgatory (In LCC XIII, 399-413) [packet]
             Parable of the Lord and the Servant
             Comparisons Between Julian and Anselm

MARTIN LUTHER (1483-1546)

Readings from Luther will be found in Dillenberger's Anthology (= MLJD)
              Luther's Life and Works

Week 8.2
Beginnings: Institutional Corruption
             Cajetan, "The Celebration of the Mass: [packet]
             Luther, "Preface to Latin Writings" (1545), MLJD 3-12; "95 Theses" & "Heidelberg Disputations," MLJD 489-503; "An Appeal to the Ruling Class," MLJD 403.

Week 9.1

Justification by Faith
             Preface to Romans, MLJD 19-34; On the Freedom of a Christian; MLJD 42-84; Two Kinds of Righteousness, MLJD 86-96; Galatians-Commentary, MLJD 100-165.

Week 9.2

Scripture as Matrix and Seed
Selected Biblical Prefaces in MLJD 13-41;

Week 10.1

Sacraments as Promises Received by Faith
The Pagan Servitude of the Church, MLJD 249-364; " "On Baptism," MLJD 228-33 and "The Lord's Supper," MLJD 234-39.

ULRICH ZWINGLI (1484-1531)

Ulrich Zwingli's Life and Works

Week 10.2
Sacramental Theology
             Of the Clarity and Certainty of the Word of God (Bromily ed.), 59-95; An Exposition of the Faith (Bromily ed.), 245-279; On the Lord's Supper (Bromily ed.), 176-238.

JOHN CALVIN (1509-1564)

Calvin's Life and Works

Readings from Calvin will be taken from Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion in two Volumes, trans by Battles (LCC XX-XXI).

Week 11.1
Knowledge of God and the Scriptures
             Institutes, Book I.1-8.

Week 11.2

Faith, Justification, and Works
             Institutes, Book I.15-18; III.2.1-43; III.11.1-23; III.14.1-21.

Week 12.1

Sacraments and Society

COUNTER-REFORMATION

Week 12.2

Trent on Justification; Protestant Response
             Creeds of the Church (ed. Leith), 400-24.
              Calvin's Responses
Calvin, Institutes, Book III, 9.1-23

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In addition to reading, class attendance, participation in discussions, written work for this course will include two short papers on assigned topics, a mid-term examination, and a final examination. No late papers will be accepted without a written medical excuse from a physician (not a member of your family).

Books ordered for this course at Yale Divinity School book store (in Bellamy) include the following:

Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works, eds. Brian Davies and G. R. Evans (Oxford University Press, 1998).

Bromiley, G. W., ed. Zwingli and Bullinger. Library of Christian Classics. (Westminster Press, Philadelphia).

Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 volumes. F.L. Battles trans. Library of Christian Classics. (Westminster Press, Philadelphia).

Dillenberger, John, ed. Martin Luther: Selections. (Doubleday Anchor).

Fairweather, A.M. ed. Aquinas on Nature and Grace. Library of Christian Classics. (Westminster Press, Philadelphia).

Fairweather, E.R. ed. Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham. Library of Christian Classics. (Westminster, Philadelphia).

Julian of Norwich, Showing Paulist Press. [or some other edition, alternatively title, Revelations of Divine Love.]

St. Bonaventure, The Journey of the Mind to God. P. Boehner, trans. S. Brown, ed. (Hackett Publishing Co., Indiana) [or some other edition, alternativly titled, The Mind's Journey into God]

William Ockham, Predestination, God's Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents. Trans. Adams & Kretzmann. (Indianpolis, IN: Hackett Publishing Co.).

In addition there is a large packet available, availability to be announced..