Course Description
This course covers the importance of the apostles in theology with special attention to Aquinas’s view. The connection of the apostles to ecclesiology, the theology of revelation, and the development of doctrine will be discussed, as will the history of the individual apostles and their perception in the Christian tradition.
Bibliography
BAUCKHAM, RICHARD. Jesus and the Eyewitness: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony, 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2017.
BONINO, SERGE-THOMAS. “The Role of the Apostles in the Communication of Revelation According to the Lectura Super Ioannem of St Thomas Aquinas. In Reading John with St. Thomas Aquinas: Theological Exegesis and Speculative Theology. Edited by Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering, 318–46. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2005.
BURNET, REGIS. Les douze apôtres: histoire de la réception des figures apostoliques dans le christianisme ancien. Judaïsme ancien et origines du christianisme 1. Turnhout: Brepols, 2014.
TRAVER, ANDREW. “The Forging of an Intellectual Defense of Mendicancy in the Medieval University.” In The Origin, Development, and Refinement of Medieval Religious Mendicancies. Edited Donald S. Prudlo, 157-195. Brill’s Companion to the Christian Tradition. Leiden: Brill, 2011.