History of theology in the Middel Ages. Specific questions

Language

French

Main themes

These objectives will be achieved after a presentation of the cararcteristic axes of monastic and scolastic theologies. The birth, the main theologians of the XII century and the important syntheses of the scolastic theology will be studied with some indications on the latse scolastic and the heterodox doctines.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	- make the difference between various types of theology practised in the Middel Ages (methods; sources; literary genres; historical, cultural, institutional contexts) ;
2	- use the main tools in the field and deepen a specific question in a personal research.

Content

his year's course will focus on the notion of sacrament in medieval theology. Representatives of monastic theology and scholastic theology will be interviewed to construct a precise and reasoned image of the way in which medieval thinkers understood and articulated this notion.
The methods of medieval theology, its different forms (monastic, scholastic and positive theology, its literary genres, the challenges it had to face will also be presented.

Teaching methods

classical lecture

Evaluation methods

Oral exam. The student  chooses a topic  on which he  makes a presentation and has to answer questions on the matter of the course.

Online resources

yllabus and documentary resources accessible on the course moodle website

Bibliography

David Neil Bell, Par mille chemins. Développement et diversité de la théologie médiévale, Paris, Cerf, 2000.
Brian Gaybba, Aspects of the Medieval History of Theology : Twelth to Fourteenth Centuries, Pretoria, University of South Africa, 1988.
Brian Gaybba, God's Wisdom and Human Reason. The Development of Theology as a Discipline in Medieval Texts, Pretoria, University of South Africa Press, 1999.
Marc Ozilou, Guy Berceville, La Théologie Médiévale dans Histoire de la Théologie, sous la direction de Jean-Yves Lacoste, Paris, Seuil, 2009.

Faculty or entity

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