Text Seminar:
Augustine and Aquinas on the Trinity
1. Course materials and other resources
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