TCS009  COMPARATIVE TRINITARIAN THEOLOGY (A.Y. 2023/2024)

• Accademic Unit

  Faculty of Theology

• Course

  Licentiate in Theology specialization in Comparative Theology of Christian Traditions and Ecumenical Studies

Objectives: Exploring the trinitarian theology in the Eastern Christian tradition and reflecting upon its ecclesiological understanding. The course aims at studying some significant texts from Orthodox heritage, classical as well as modern.The course consists of a lecture and an interactive discussion on a theme of the week.

Content: 1- The Trinitarian theology in the Cappadocean Fathers: Gregory the Theologian on Three and One; Gregory of Nyssa on Not Three Gods. 2- The Trinitarian vision in Maximus the Confessor: the Mystagogiaand Chapters on Knowledge. 3- The Trinitarian theology in the twentieth Century Orthodoxy: Bulgakov and the Paris School of Theology. 4- The Trinitarian Theology and Personhood in John Zizioulas and Dimitru Staniloae. 5- Kallistos Ware on Grace of the Triune God manifested in God’s creation; Hesychasm and Gregory Palamas. 6- Deification in the prism of the Trinitarian and Christological perspectives


Methodology: to explore and reflect upon the interaction between trinitarian theologies and the ethical and ecclesiological understandings of different Christian confessions.

Means of evaluation: the study of specific texts from Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant writers of the 20th and 21st centuries; a lecture and a seminar style discussion each week.

• Information
• Teachers
• Lesson schedule/Room
• Bibliography
• Calls

Information

• Semestre: 2° Semestre
• ECTS: 4

Teachers

Tamara GRDZELIDZE

Rowan WILLIAMS

Lesson schedule/Room

Semester	Day	From	To	Room	Floor	Building	Notes
2° Semestre	Lunedì	15.00	15.45	T400	4	Traspontina	Seminario intensivo dal 15/04 al 21/05/2024
2° Semestre	Lunedì	16.00	16.45	T400	4	Traspontina	Seminario intensivo dal 15/04 al 21/05/2024
2° Semestre	Martedì	15.00	15.45	T400	4	Traspontina	Seminario intensivo dal 15/04 al 21/05/2024
2° Semestre	Martedì	16.00	16.45	T400	4	Traspontina	Seminario intensivo dal 15/04 al 21/05/2024

Bibliography

• Works by John Zizioulas, Karl Rahner, Miroslav Volf, Jurgen Moltmann, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Barth, Vladimir Lossky, Serge Bugakov, Wolfhart Pannenberg

Calls

Date	Hours	Room	Exam	From Letter	To Letter	Note
Jun 3, 2024	.	.	Homework	A	Z