Individual courses

Liturgy is primary theology.

The course provides the theological and historical foundations for understanding the evolution of Christian liturgical forms, and pastoral practice. The course will examine the major moments in the historical development of the liturgy in both East and West from the New Testament era with its Jewish foundations to the present.

The course will examine the major moments in the historical development of the liturgy in both East and West from the New Testament era with its Jewish foundations to the present. Attention will be given to the role of ritual and symbol in human life, the relationship of liturgy to society and culture, and critical approaches to liturgical practice.

Ecumenical dialogue requires a methodology to move from disagreement to consensus. 

The goal is to understand the differences between halakhic and aggadic midrashim, exegetical and homiletical midrashim, midrashim and targumim.

The christian conscience and colonization within the context of the missionary organization in the ‘new world’ “the case of the spanish Latin America”

Common elements of Monasticism in Myanmar Buddhism and in the Latin Catholic Church, in preparation for an Interreligious Dialogue : a Comparative Study

This course will provide a general introduction to the language of the New Testament.

Prerequisite: completion of NT Greek 1 with a minimum grade of 12/20 or previous study of New Testament Greek.

Application of the Newmanian Criteriology on the Axiom "Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus"

This course will give students a general exposure to traditional opposition to Ecumenism within the perspective of the three main traditions of Christianity.

An Introduction to the Prophetical Phenomenon

The prophets understand themselves as inspired by God and claim that what they say is word of God. This is obvious from the very frequent formula they use « Thus speaks the Lord »...

Minor Prophets

Study of the Writing Prophets in Chronological Order
 

Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel

Study of the Writing Prophets in Chronological Order: from the Exile to the New Testament

Journey through the mind of Thomas Aquinas as you read the Gospel of John. This course introduces you to the theological thinking of the 'Angelic Doctor'.

Part One includes: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist.

Part Two includes: Anointing, Reconciliation, Marriage, Ordination.

The story of Esther

The book of Judith is named after its main hero whose achievements it tells and glorifies. Like the books of Tobit and Esther, the book of Judith focuses on a main character and tells in detail the salvation given by God in a critical situation.

The name which designates the book has not always been the same through the centuries. The name « Tobiah » in English or « Tobie » in French comes from the Latin Vulgate which gives the same Latin name, Tobias, to the father and the son. It has been used in the past decades but is generally no longer in use.

This course focuses on the centrality of the Cross in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Christology.

The Creed (divided in 12 parts)

This course places the Epistles of John within their context in the New Testament with the Gospel of John. It invites you to think for yourself about the meaning of the texts, and the relationship between the Epistles and the Gospel.

The Odes of Solomon are a collection of 42 Christian hymns from the late first or early to mid-second centuries. They were composed in Syria and known from Egypt to Rome. They celebrate Christ as the Logos, the Virgin Birth, the Trinity, the crucifixion and descent of Christ into Hades. Discover these Odes and their meaning. 

The principal aim of the course will be to furnish an appreciation of Johannine literature as Good News, with particular reference to the theological perspective of the author. The course will further aim at providing a basic familiarity with, and a critical assessment of, contemporary critical thinking on the Johannine writings, particularly the Gospel of John.

We propose to define each term of the title, in order to understand the cultural background that was the matrix of Christianity.

Bible seminar from April 9 to June 3, 2018

This course introduces to the history of the text of the Quran, to its language and style, and to the traditional "Qur'anic sciences".

This course introduces to the history of the text of the Quran, to its language and style, and to the traditional "Qur'anic sciences".

The Second Vatican Council, a pastoral Council; which, according to Pope John XXIII, had the concern, “that the sacred deposit of Christian doctrine should be guarded and taught more efficaciously.” 

The Song of Songs is a lock whose key had been lost long ago. As a matter a fact, no book that small has caused that many commentaries and questions along centuries.

In sum, the Father’s kenosis to the Son, and the kenosis of the Father and the Son to the Holy Spirit correspond to the very essence of God which can only be love. 

Professeur Fr. Chukwudi Onyinyechukwu ANOLIEFO, op

St. Thomas Aquinas on Man as made to the Image of the Trinity and on the Trinitarian God in whose Image we are made and to whom we are Conformed.

Thomas never refers to Muslims by their name.

A specialised course in Thomistic issues by fr. Gilles Emery, OP,  a leading specialist in this discipline !

For MA students only

Both traditions, classical Greek metaphysics and Trinitarian theology, link “being” with life, but Trinitarian theology deepens the connection by making “relation” essential to the “First Principle” in a way that ultimately produces something new, a Trinitarian ontology.

This course examines the foundations of trinitarian doctrine in revelation.

Trinity part II

Trinity part III

This course examines the foundations of trinitarian doctrine in revelation.

Trinity Part I

Trinity Part III

This course examines the foundations of trinitarian doctrine in revelation.

Trinity Part I

Trinity Part II