patristic T-KP-SJ>patrol-w-5

The lecture will be divided into three thematic parts according to the following scheme:
I. Introductory issues
1. programme and organisation of the class, bibliography.
2. Preliminaries of patristics - part 1: terminological issues
2.1 Basic terminology (basic concepts and divisions of the patristic period of dogmatic history: patristics, patrology, patristic periods, Fathers of the Church).
2.2 Specific terminology (synods, councils, emperors, patriarchates).
3 Patrological preliminaries part 2 - sources and linguistic issues.
3.1 Sources of patrological and patristic knowledge (codes, canons, historical and contemporary foreign and Polish-language patristic series and publications)
3.2 The division between the Latin and Greek Fathers (Western and Eastern).
3.3. Basic linguistic information on Greek and Latin (origins and characters of the alphabet, alphanumeric values, rules for reading some symbolic notations, Christograms and acronyms).
4 Chronology of the First Patristic Period (i.e. up to 381).
4.1 Chronological table of the Eastern Fathers.
4.2 Chronological table of the Western Fathers.
II. Works and authors of the first patristic period
5 The earliest patristic works
5.1 Didachè
5.2 Letter of Barnabas
5.3 The Shepherd of Hermas
6 The most important Apostolic Fathers
6.1 Clement of Rome
6.2 Ignatius of Antioch
6.3 Polycarp of Smyrna
6.4 Papias of Hierapolis
7 The first apologists
7.1 General characteristics of the period
7.2 Justin
7.3 Irenaeus of Lyons
8 The African School
8.1 General characteristics
8.2 Tertullian
8.3 Cyprian
9 Alexandrian school
9.1 General characteristics
9.2 Clement of Alexandria
9.3 Origen
10 The Antiochian School
10.1 General characteristics
10.2 Diodorus of Antiochus
10.3 Theodore of Mopsuestia
10.4 Ephrem the Syrian (Syrian-Persian school)
III. The universal councils of the first patristic period
11 Historical and theological background of the Council of Nicea I
11.1 Arianism
11.2 Athanasius
11.2 Hilary of Poitiers
12 Council of Nicea I (325)
12.1 Circumstances of its convocation and proceedings
12.2 Analysis of the Creed and selected canons.
13 The historical and theological background of the Council of Constantinople I
13.1 Duchoburgy
13.2 The Cappadocian school (Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of Nazianzus)
14 Council of Constantinople I (381)
14.1 Circumstances of the convocation and proceedings of the Council
14.2 Analysis of the Creed and selected canons.
15 Additions and Summary.