2007-2008 Patristics Seminar Schedule and Readings
All sessions are on the third Monday of the month and are held at University Lutheran Chapel, 1101 University Avenue SE, Minneapolis. Sessions begin at 10:30 a.m. with Matins.
Ante-Nicene Fathers Revisited
The following readings, except Irenaeus, are taken from the Ante-Nicene Fathers, edited by Philip Schaff. Each volume is available from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org) as a pdf file. Or you can download the individual documents from New Advent (newadvent.org).
- September 17
- Preaching Pentecost and Trinity with the Fathers
- Presenter: Rev. Mick Matthews
- October 15
- Irenaeus, Proof of the Apostolic Preaching (Ancient Christian Writers, vol. 16). It is also found online at http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/ .
- November 19
- Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, Books I & IV (ANF 05:9-47)
- December 17
- Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, Books V & VI (ANF 05:47-99)
- January 21
- Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, Books VII & VIII (ANF 05:100-124)
- February 18
- Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, Books IX & X (ANF 05:125-153)
- March 17
- Novatian, On the Trinity (ANF 05:611-645)
- April 21
- Alexander of Lycopolis, Of the Manicheans (ANF 06: 237-254)
- May 19
- Archelaus, Acts of the Disputation … (ANF 06:179-235)
- June 16
- Lactantius, Treatise on the Anger of God (ANF 07:259-280)
