Patristic Grk: Preaching & Paraenesin the Byzantine Tradition (PATR 6030)
Term: Academic Year 2024-2025 Fall
Description
Spiritual exhortation lies at the heart of the patristic tradition. From festal homilies to more basic forms of edification and instruction, the patristic corpus is replete with short, approachable sermons intended to help Christians live the Gospel and grow in virtue. In this course, students will read and translate some of the key historical texts of this genre, paying particular attention to the neglected writings that circulated for centuries as the work of the Church Fathers but which are now considered pseupigraphic or spurious. Prerequisites: two semesters of Biblical Greek or equivalent