Christian Thought

Windham/Fall 2006

Bibleesp. Genesis, Romans, John

Ignatius of Antioch (c. 50-98/117), Lettersmonepiscopate

CLEMENT (DOCUMENT C. 96), THE LETTER OF THE CHURCH IN ROME TO THE CHURCH IN
CORINTHTRADITION

Irenaeus (130-202), Against Heresies

ORIGEN (185-253), ON FIRST PRINCIPLES, ESP. BOOK IV

(Plotinus (204-270) & Proclus (412-485), in F. Coplestons History of Philosophy

(CHRISTOLOGICAL DEBATES IN RICHARD NORRIS AND WILLIAM RUSCH, THE

CHRISTOLOGICAL CONTROVERSY. (POPE LEO TREATED HERE?)

(Trinitarian debates in William Rusch, The Trinitarian Controversy.)

GREGORY OF NYSSA (D. 385/6), LIFE OF MOSES

Ambrose

Augustine (354-430), Confessions and City of God

Pseudo-Dionysius (late 5th or early 6thc.), The Complete Works

(ERIUGENA (9THC.) IN DERMOTT MORAN, THE PHILOSOPHY OF JOHN SCOTTUS ERIUGENA (2004))

Anselm (1033-1109), Proslogion and Cur Deus Homo

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153), On Loving God

Bonaventure (1221-1274), The Souls Journey to God

AQUINAS (1225-1274), SUMMA THEOLOGIAE: ON THE DOCTRINE OF GOD, ON THE NAME OF GOD

(Nominalists in Louis Dupr, Passage to Modernity (1993) and Heiko Oberman, The Harvest of
Medieval Theology: Gabriel Biel and Late Medieval Nominalism ( 1983) and Forerunners of the
Reformation: The Shape of Late Medieval Thought (2002))

LATE MEDIEVAL MYSTICS

(THE MYSTIC FABLE: THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES, MICHEL DE CERTEAU AND
MICHAEL B. SMITH (1995); AND THE PRESENCE OF GOD: THE
FOUNDATIONSFLOWERINGGROWTHHARVEST OF MYSTICISM, BERNARD MCGINN, 1994-2005))
Mechthild von Magdeburg (c.1210-c.1284)
MARGUERITE PORETE (D. 1310), THE MIRROR OF SIMPLE SOULS
Meister Eckhart (c.1260-1327/8)
Nicholas of Cusa (1400/1-1464), Treatise on Learned Ignorance; On Seeking; On Vision
Teresa of Avila (1515-1582), The Collected Works, vol.2, trans. Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio
Rodriguez
St. John of the Cross (1542-1591), The Poems, trans. Willis Barnstone. Indiana University Press.

LUTHER (1483-1546), FREEDOM OF A CHRISTIAN, IN JOHN DILLENBERGER, ED. MARTIN LUTHER:

SELECTIONS FROM HIS WRITINGS. NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY, 1961.

Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531), On the Clarity and Certainty or Power of the Word of God, in
G.W. Bromiley, ed. Zwingli and Bullinger. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1953.

JOHN ECK (1486-1543), ENCHIRIDION OF COMMONPLACES AGAINST MARTIN LUTHER AND HIS
FOLLOWERS, TRANS. F.L. BATTLES, DUSQUESNE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1976.

Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, ed. Louis J. Puhl, S.J.
Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1951.

JOHN CALVIN (1509-1564), INSTITUTES OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, ED. JOHN T. MCNEILL.
PHILADELPHIA: WESTMINSTER PRESS, 1960.

Additional Secondary Sources:

Frederick Copleston. A History of Philosophy, 9 vols.

JEAN LECLERQ, THE LOVE OF LEARNING AND THE DESIRE FOR GOD

Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, 5 vols.

WILLIAM PLACHER, A HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION (1983)