CHU395: Sourcebook Texts

NB: Headings follow the format Week : Class Meeting Day, so 1.1 means 1st week, 1st class meeting day for that week. Multiple listings of primary sources are given in chronological order, from oldest to newest. Multiple listings of secondary sources are given in alphabetical order by the author’s last name.

1.2. Methods and Philosophies of Christian History

· Primary Sources:

- Augustine, On the Usefulness of Belief xi.25-xii.26 and xv.33-xvi.34, in Augustine: Earlier Writings, trans., John H.S. Burleigh, LCC vol. 6 (Philadelphia: Westminster P, 1953).

1.3. The Beginnings of the Story

· Primary Sources:

- Shepherd of Hermas Visions 1-2 (1-8 or I.1-II.4) in Bart D. Ehrman, The Apostolic Fathers, vol. 1, LCL 24 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2003)

· Secondary/Supplemental Sources:

- David H. Williams, Retrieving the Tradition and Renewing Evangelicalism: A Primer for Suspicious Protestants (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999), chp. 1.

2.2. Rabbinic and Christian Polemics

· Primary Sources:

- “Birkat Ha-Minim” in Encyclopedia Judaica 2^nd ed, Fred Skolnik and Michael Berenbaum, edd. (New York: Thomson/Gale, 2006), 3.711-712.

- Epistle of Barnabus in Early Christian Writings, trans. Andrew Louth (New York: Penguin, 1987);

- Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho the Jew (FOC trans.) in Bart Ehrman, After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity (New York: Oxford UP, 1998);

- Melito of Sardis, On the Passover (FOC trans.) in Bart Ehrman, After the New Testament: A Reader in Early Christianity (New York: Oxford UP, 1998).

2.3. Anti-Semitism, the Shoah, and Post-Shoah Relations

· Primary Sources:

- International Council of Christians and Jews, Ten Points of Seelisburg;

- Vatican II, Nostra Aetate;

- National Jewish Scholars Project, Dabru Emet.

· Secondary/Supplemental Sources:

- “Anti-Semitism” in Encyclopedia Judaica 2d ed, Fred Skolnik and Michael Berenbaum, edd., vol. 2 (New York: Thomson/Gale, 2006; note esp. pp. 206-214);

- Robert L. Wilken, Review of James Carroll, Constantine’s Sword, in Commonweal (Jan. 26, 2001), 22-28;

- World Council of Churches, “The Christian Approach to the Jews”.

3.1. Scripture Interpretation in the NT and Church Fathers

· Primary Sources:

- Origen of Alexandria, On First Principles 4.1-2;

· Secondary Sources:

- Everett Ferguson, “Rule of Faith,” in The Encyclopedia of Early Christianity, Everett Ferguson, ed., 2d ed, vol. 2 (New York: Garland Publishing, 1997);

- Rowan Greer, “The Christian Bible and Its Interpretation” in Early Biblical Interpretation, by James Kugel and Rowan Greer (Philadelphia: Westminster Pres, 1986), chp. 2.

3.2. Gnostic and Proto-Orthodox Plotlines

· Primary Sources:

- Hypostasis of the Archons, in James M. Robison, gen. ed., Nag Hammadi Library, 3^rd ed (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1988).

3.3. The Development of the Orthodox Canon

· Primary Sources:

- Muratorian Fragment;

- Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History, excerpts on NT canon formation (see esp. 3.25);

- Athanasius of Alexandria, Festival Letter 39.

· Secondary/Supplemental Sources:

- Canon Lists in Lee McDonald and James Sanders, The Canon Debate (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2002), 585-597.

4.1. The Beginnings of Christian Worship

· Primary Sources:

- Didache 7-16;

- Apuleius, Golden Ass 3.24-25, 11.1-30;

- Justin Martyr, First Apology 61-67;

- Hippolytus of Rome, Apostolic Traditions in The Canons of Hippolytus, Paul Bradshaw, ed., Carol Bebawi, trans. (Bramcote, Nottingham: Grove Books, 1987).

4.2. The Development of Ecclesiastical Offices

· Primary Sources:

- Ignatius of Antioch, To the Magnesians, To the Trallians, To the Smyrneans, in Early Christian Fathers, Cyril Richardson, trans., LCC vol. 1 (Philadelphia: Westminster P, 1953);

· Secondary/Supplemental Sources:

- Council of Sardica (343), Canon V, trans. NPNF 14:419;

- Pope Leo I, Sermon 3 in St. Leo the Great: Sermons, trans. J.P. Freeland and A.J. Conway, FOTC (Washington, D.C.: Catholic U of A P, 1996), pp. 20-21.

- Eamon Duffy, Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes, 2d ed. (New Haven: Yale UP, 2002), 27-36;

- Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies 3.1-4 in Early Christian Fathers, LCC v. 1, Cyril Richardson, trans. and ed. (Philadelphia: Westminster P, 1953), 369-377.

5.1. Jewish & NT Roots of Trinitarian Worship and Theology

· Secondary/Supplemental Sources:

- Wisdom of Jesus ben Sirach 24 (NRSV; aka Sirach, aka Ecclesiasticus);

- 1 Enoch 46-50 in James H. Charlesworth, ed., The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, vol. 1, ABRL (New York: Doubleday, 1983);

- Wisdom of Solomon 18 (NRSV);

- Larry Hurtado, How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God? (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2005).

5.2. The Development of Trinitarian Orthodoxy

· Primary Sources:

- Athanasius of Alexandria, On the Incarnation of the Word, in Christology of the Later Fathers, ed. E.R. Hardy (Louisville, KY: WJKP, 1954); cf. esp. sections 4,14,16,18,44,54;

- Early Christian Creeds / Confessions / Symbols:

1. Apostles’ Creed (c. 7^th cent. AD // 2^nd cent. “Old Roman Symbol”)

2. Nicene Creed (AD 325)

3. Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed (AD 381)

4. Symbol of Chalcedon (AD 451)

5.3. Recent Explorations in Trinitarian Theology

· Supplemental/Secondary Sources:

- Jurgen Moltmann, The Crucified God, R.A. Wilson and J. Bowden, transs. (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1974; German, Der gekreuzigte Gott, 2d ed., 1973),227-249.

- John D. Zizioulas, Being as Communion (Crestwood, NY: Vt. Vladimir’s Seminary P, 1997), 42-65.

6.1. Polemics and Apologetics

· Primary Sources:

- Pliny the Younger, Letters 10.96-97 (Pliny to Trajan on Christians and reply, c. 112 AD);

- Porphyry, Against the Christians, R. Joseph Hoffmann trans. and ed. (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1994; note esp. II.7-12 (chp 1), II.12-15 (chp 2), III.1-6 (chp 4), III.7-18 (chp 5), IV.24 (chp 11));

- Julian “the Apostate,” Against the Galileans, R. Joseph Hoffmann trans. and ed. (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004; note esp. 43A-52C,86A,106A-D,152B,176A-B,262C,305D,320B,327A,333B).

6.2. Persecution and Martyrdom

· Primary Sources:

- Martyrdom of Polycarp in Cyril R. Richardson, trans. and ed., Early Christian Fathers, Library of Christian Classics v. 1 (Philadelphia: Westminster P, 1953);

- Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas in Herbert Musurillo, The Acts of the Christian Martyrs (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1972).

6.3. Pacifists Turned Persecutors

· Secondary/Supplemental Sources:

- John Foxe, Book of Martyrs, chp. 18;

- Passion of Maximian and Isaac in Maureen A. Tilley, Acts of the Donatist Martyrs (Liverpool: UP, 1996), 61-75.

7.1. Constantine the Great

· Primary Sources:

o Edict of Milan;

o Eusebius of Caesarea, Life of Constantine, note esp.:

1. Book 1: 1-4, 7, 12, 15-16, 20, 27-32 (conversion and victory), 37-38, 40-44.

2. Book 3: 5-20 (Council of Nicea), 42-46 (Helena), 54, 64-66.

o Theodosius I, Cunctos Populos (see decree #2) in The Theodosian Code, Clyde Pharr, trans. (Princeton: UP, 1952).

7.2. Church and State in East and West

· Supplemental Sources:

o Henry IV, Letter to Gregory VII;

o Gregory VII, Dictatus Papae;

o Boniface VIII, Clericis Laicos;

o Marsiglio of Padua, Defensor Pacis;

o Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam;

o Magna Carta;

o US Constitution, Amendment 1.

7.3. Christianity & Modern Politics

· Secondary Sources:

o Jerry Falwell, Listen America! (New York: Doubleday, 1980), 243-266.

o James D. Hunter, Culture Wars (BasicBooks, 1991), chs. 1,3;

o Jim Wallis, The Soul of Politics: A Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change (New York: New Press, 1994), 20-47.

8.1. The Cult of the Saints and Mary

· Primary Sources:

o Ambrose of Milan, Letter 22 (61) (FOTC; see esp. pp.378-379);

o Birth of Mary (aka, Protoevangelium of James), in NTA 1;

o John of Damascus, Homily on the Dormition of Mary, in Brian E. Daley, ed. and trans., On the Dormition of Mary: Early Patristic Homilies (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary P, 1998);

· Secondary Sources:

o Peter Brown, The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Chicago: U Chicago P, 1981), chp. 1;

o Combined Handout: Ineffabilis Deus (“Ineffable God,” on the Immaculate Conception of Mary) & Munificentissimus Deus (“Most Merciful God,” on the Assumption of Mary);

o Karl Rahner, “Church of the Saints,” in Theological Investigations (Baltimore: Helicon P, 1979).

o Karl Rahner, “Dogma of the Immaculate Conception in Our Spiritual Life,” in Theological Investigations (Baltimore: Helicon P, 1979).

9.1. Eastern Desert Monasticism

· Primary Sources:

o Athanasius of Alexandria, Life of Saint Anthony, in Robert C. Gregg, trans. (New York: Paulist, 1980), chs. 1-21.

· Supplemental Sources:

o Lives of the Desert Fathers (The Historia Monachorum in Aegypto), in Norman Russell, trans. (Oxford: Mowbray, 1981), prologue, lives 1-15.

9.2. Western Civic Monasticism

· Primary Sources:

o Benedict of Nursia, Rule of St. Benedict, selected excerpts;

· Secondary Sources:

o Chart of Major Monastic Orders (in the West), in Chronological and Background Charts of Church History, Robert Walton (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1986).

9.3. Ascetes and Mystics

· Primary Sources:

o Brother Ugolino di Monte, Actus of St. Francis (or Fioretti, i.e. Little Flowers), in The Little Flowers of St. Francis, stories 1,3,7,9-27; for background, see introduction;

o Catherine of Genoa, The Spiritual Dialogue, selected excerpts in Amy Oden, In Her Words (Nashville: Abingdon, 1994), pp. 204-215.

10.1. Christian Space and Time

· Secondary Sources:

o Richard Krautheimer, Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture (Hammondsworth: Penguin, 1965), chs. 1-2.

o Robert L. Wilken, The Land Called Holy (New Haven: Yale UP, 1992), chs 5-6.

10.2. Christian Art and Iconography

· Primary Sources:

o John of Damascus, First Apology against Those Who Attack the Divine Images, in On the Divine Images, David Anderson, trans. (Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary P, 2000);

· Secondary Sources:

o Jean-Luc Marion, The Crossing of the Visible, James K. A. Smith, trans. (Stanford: UP, 2004), chp. 4.

10.3. Christian Poetry and Music

· Primary Sources:

o Ambrose,