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The Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople: its prelude, convocation, events and Creed

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History of Doctrines I

  • The first theological controversies of the Early Church with Jews and Gentiles; the christological teaching of the apostolic fathers.
  • Adoptionist and docetist trends in the Early Church
  • The doctrine of Trinity before Origen
  • The life and theological importance of Origen
  • The most important expressions from the field of the doctrine of Trinity and Christology: ousia, physis, hypostasis, prosopon
  • The first general theological controversy: Arius and the arianism; the first Ecumenical Council of Nicea and its Creed.
  • Teological controversies after Nicea: the councils of Sardica and Sirmium.
  • The life and theological importance of Athanasius
  • Christological and pneumatological side tracks: Apollinaris, Macedonius and the pneumatomachians.
  • The theology of the Cappadocian fathers I: Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianz.
  • The theology of the Cappadocian fathers II: Gregory of Nyssa
  • The life and theological significance of Amphilochius of Iconium
  • The Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople: its prelude, convocation, events and Creed
  • The canons and results of the Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople