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2018-2019 Graduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

GB 5423 - Systematic and Historical Theology I (3)


A survey of Christian thought from 100 CE to 1600 CE. The thought of influential leaders (including Ignatius, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Clement, Origen, Cyprian, Augustine, Chrysostom, John of Damascus, Anselm, Bernard, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, Anglicanism and the Anabaptists), Ecumenical Councils and the division between East and West is studied in view of the theological development of Christian thought. Themes are studied in their historical development, including apologetics and philosophy, scripture and tradition, heresy and Gnosticism, Trinitarianism, Christology, ecclesiology, soteriology, anthropology and the sacraments and in terms of their significance for the contemporary church.