THEO 6301

THEO 6301 is a text-based course, in which students explore the foundationally important writings from the apostolic fathers, the early apologists, and theologians through the first several centuries A.D. Attention is also given to the seven ecumenical councils of the early church, from 325CE to 787CE, which represent the church’s early attempts to come to a consensus regarding the great mysteries of the Christian faith, the Trinity, and the Incarnation of the Son of God, as well as regarding the practical matter of the worship of this God in the church. All of these theological and ecclesial texts elucidate early Christianity’s theological development as it reflected on the scriptural teaching of the prophets and apostles and engaged in the wider Greco-Roman culture of its time.