Course on Patristic Theology

History and Doctrine of the Church Fathers.

Explore the history of the early church and the leaders who spearheaded and were part of the Christian movement, with the Theology Course of the Church Fathers, a compilation from the Apostles of Christ to the Fathers of the Eastern Church.

Structured chronologically, the author divides the content into:

1. Apostolic Fathers. Gathers the life and work of the first Christians, from the 1st century AD to the end of the 2nd century, called apostolic and protagonists of the early church, who are privileged witnesses of the emergence and theology of Christianity, which from the beginning shows great freedom.
2. Apologist Fathers. Work of the first theologians strictly speaking, from the end of the 2nd century to the mid-3rd century AD, who wrote in Greek (Justin, Irenaeus…), except Tertullian, who wrote in Latin.
3. Alexandrian Fathers, Coptic/Egyptian Church (3rd–4th centuries AD). They were the first strict theologians in dialogue with Greek thought (starting with Clement of Alexandria and Origen).
4. Syrian Fathers, Eastern Church (4th–5th centuries AD). Alongside the Alexandrians (and in contrast to them) the Eastern Fathers rise, more specifically those of Syria.
5. Latin Fathers (3rd–7th centuries AD). They were more interested in moral issues and the legal-administrative organization of the Church than in topics of strict theology or biblical exegesis.
6. Late Latin Patristics (8th–12th centuries AD). In a restricted sense, patristics ends with the rise of Celtic monasticism and the Carolingian reform or renaissance (between the 8th and 9th centuries AD).
7. Late Greek Patristics (8th–14th centuries AD), include the last Fathers of the Eastern Church, whose first stage culminates in the great thinkers of the 7th and early 8th centuries (Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus, John of Damascus).

Pages: 416
ISBN: 9788419055293