Text Seminar: Augustine and Aquinas on the Trinity

1. Course materials and other resources

• The syllabus
• Summa Theologiae, Part I, in Latin (not complete, but covers the material we are reading in this class).

2. Readings

• Jan. 14: (1) The Gospel of John as background material.  (2) Augustine's De Trinitate, Book I: this is available online at Georgetown or via GU-Express (in the correct translation!) in the PastMasters library--go to http://library.nlx.com, click on "Augustine: Works" and select "The Trinity",  (3) The Pseudo-Athanasian Creed.
• Jan. 16: (1) Summa Theologiae I, 2, 3 as background material.  (2) Summa Theologiae I, 3.
• Jan. 21: (1) Summa Theologiae I, 12, (2) Summa Theologiae I, 13, and (3) "What Are Aristotelian Forms?"
• Jan. 23: De Trinitate, Book II.
• Jan. 28: Summa Theologiae I, 27 and, as background, Summa Theologiae I, 14,2-4
• Jan. 30: Summa Theologiae I, 28
• Feb. 4: De Trinitate, Book III, and Summa Contra Gentiles, Book IV, Chapters 10 and 14 (go to http://library.nlx.com, and select Thomas Aquinas's collected works, and then go to the Summa Contra Gentiles).
• Feb. 6: Summa Theologiae I, 29 and Thomas Aquinas, "Faith, Reason and Theology", Question 1, Article 4 (go to http://library.nlx.com, select Thomas Aquinas's collected works, go to "Faith, Reason and Theology", and page through until you get to article, "Is the human mind by itself able to arrive at a knowledge of the divine Trinity?", and page through it until you finish reading it -- this link might get you there directly, so try it first)
• Feb. 11: De Trinitate, Book IV
• Feb. 13: Summa Theologiae I, 30 and Thomas Aquinas, On the Power of God, Book 3, Question 9 (go to http://library.nlx.com, select Thomas Aquinas's collected works, press the + sign to expand "On the Power of God", then press the + sign to expand "Book 3", and choose Question 9, and then page through it -- this link might get you there directly, so try it first)
• Feb. 20: De Trinitate, Book V, and Trenton Merricks, "Split Brains and the Godhead" (online).
• Feb. 25: Summa Theologiae I, 31.
• Feb. 27: De Trinitate, Book VI.
• Mar. 4: Summa Theologiae I, 32 and Summa Theologiae I, 33.
• Mar. 6: De Trinitate, Book VII.
• Mar. 18: Summa Theologiae I, 34 and Summa Theologiae I, 35.
• Mar. 20: De Trinitate, Book VIII and Summa Theologiae I, 36.
• Mar. 25:  Summa Theologiae I, 37 and Summa Theologiae I, 38 and Summa Theologiae I, 39.
• Mar. 27: De Trinitate, Books IX and X.
• April 1: Summa Theologiae I, 40 and Summa Theologiae I, 41 and Summa Theologiae I, 42
• April 3: De Trinitate, Book XI
• April 8: Summa Theologiae I, 43 and Summa Theologiae III, 1, articles 1-3
• April 10: De Trinitate, Book XII
• April 15: Summa Theologiae III, 2
• April 22: De Trinitate, Book XIII-XIV.4
• April 24: Summa Theologiae III, 3
• April 29: De Trinitate, Books XIV.5-XV