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Instructors: Juniorprofessorin Dr. Blossom Stefaniw; Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Volp
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
Mensch/Schöpfung/Tod
Credits:
3,0
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Requirements / organisational issues:
Latinum and Graecum
Contents:
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This seminar will investigate the views of early Christians on fundamental questions about the origin and nature of the human person, the function of the created world, and the means of salvation. The writers we will study will include Irenaeus of Lyon, Clement and Origenes of Alexandria, Gregory of Nyssa, Evagrius Ponticus, Athanasius, and the anonymous collection known as the Apophthegmata Patrum or sayings of the desert fathers. The seminar will be organized into thematic blocks dealing with, e.g. Creation and the Christian Body, Materiality and Nature, Death and Salvation. Students will learn of the diversity of early Christian thought on these fundamental questions and become familiar with philological, historical, and cultural hermeneutical approaches to the study of early Christian texts, including attention to gender, class and embodiment.
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