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Early Christian practice and institutions - LDOC35
Title: Raně křesťanská praxe a instituce
Guaranteed by: HTF - Katedra biblistiky a judaistiky (28-15)
Faculty: Hussite Theological Faculty
Actual: from 2022
Semester: both
E-Credits: 0
Examination process:
Hours per week, examination: 6/0, C [HS]
Extent per academic year: 18 [hours]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Level:  
Explanation: Podle ISP.
Belongs to the student work of type: disertační práce
Note: course is intended for doctoral students only
can be fulfilled in the future
no points awarded for fulfilment
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Jiří Pavlík, Ph.D.
prof. ThDr. Jan Blahoslav Lášek
doc. ThDr. Mgr. Ing. Kamila Veverková, Ph.D.
Annotation -
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (07.02.2021)
The annotation of the seminar includes two basic frameworks of course focus, from which the doctoral student chooses after consultation with his or her supervisor. Within the chosen focus, the specific topic of the seminar will be specified taking into account the ISP of the student, or the topic of his or her dissertation, and the current state of research of the given problems (new monograph, monothematic issue of the relevant periodical, etc.). Therefore, the annotation characterizes only the basic outline of partial areas of focus, and informs about the general framework from which one specific problem is chosen for a specific semester. The course is organized in the form of active participation by doctoral students. Doctoral students take responsibility for partial topics, supervise, and correct the reading of a given section of the work and its interpretation, and moderate the discussion. The unifying framework of both areas of focus is the issue of early Christian institutions and standardization processes. A) In the course, students study Christian ritual practice in the period from the emergence of Christianity to the 4th century, i.e., the time period understood as essential for the formation of Christian ritual practice in general. The subject is the establishment of ritual practice in New Testament texts and its subsequent development, plurality, and changes. The starting point is an analysis of primary texts not only of the forming of (proto) orthodoxy (Didache, Justina, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Cyprian, Cyril of Jerusalem, Apostolic Constitution), but also ritual practice in pseudo clementine texts or in the Gospel of Philip. In general, the course focuses not only on baptism, the Eucharist, prayer, anointing, but also, for example, on ritual washing of the feet, apotropaic rites, or ritual acts in connection with death. The course focuses on one specific topic/issue. Selection of topics: - Ritual practice and identity - Ritual practice and salvation - Relation to Jewish ritual practice - Baptism as a transitional ritual - Early Christian ritual practice as a replacement for the sacrificial ritual? - The Eucharist in the context of ritual feasts - The baptismal ritual of the majority church versus the Valentine ritual of Redemption - Geographical conditionality of baptismal ritual sequences (Syria and Egypt — North Africa — Rome) and its interpretation B) In the course, doctoral students focus on the issue of the creation, formation, and establishment of the New Testament canon. It follows the process of canonization in various contexts of early Christianity (e.g., gnosis or Alexandrian theology). Doctoral students will use the primary literature and, from the perspective of current research, they will thematise selected problems, such as the question of Markion’s influence on canon formation (was Markion really the “creator of the Christian Holy Scriptures”, as Adolf von Harnack thought?), the significance of Tatian’s Diatessaron for canon formation, the issue of the so-called Muratorian fragment and other partial questions. The annotation characterizes only the basic syllabus of the course and informs about the general framework from which one partial problem is chosen for a specific semester, on which the whole course focuses. Selection of topics: - Catholicism of texts in early Christianity versus the “canon” - Plurality of canons? - Gnostic Christianity and the formation of the canon - Markion’s significance for the formation of the canon - Tatian’s Diatessaron as a reaction to Markion? - Irenaeus of Lyon as the “scripture theologian” - Clement of Alexandria and gradational canonicity - The Muratorian fragment - The significance of preserved manuscripts - The relationship between ritual practice and canonicality/canon - Athanasius of Alexandria
Descriptors -
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (05.02.2021)

Ph.D. study.

Course completion requirements -
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (05.02.2021)

Active participation in the seminar, taking over one topic of the seminar.

Literature -
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (09.03.2021)

A)

  • BRADSHAW, Paul F., Reconstructing early Christian Worship, Collegville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press 2009. ISBN: 0281060940.
  • BRADSHAW, Paul F., The search for the origins of Christian worship: Sources and methods for the study of early liturgy, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002 (2. ed.). ISBN: 9780195217322.
  • DIDACHE. Zwölf-Apostel-Lehre. übers. und eingeleitet von Georg Schöllgen. Traditio apostolica : Apostolische Überlieferung: Übers. und eingeleitet von Wilhelm Geerlings (Fontes Christiani; 1), Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder 1991. ISBN: 3-451-22101-2.
  • HELLHOM, David (ed.), Ablution, Initiation, and Baptism in Early Judaism, Graeco-Roman Religion, and Early Christianity, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2011. ISBN: 978-3-11-024751-0.
  • HELLHOM, David - Dieter Sänger (eds.), The eucharist - its origins and contexts : sacred meal, communal meal, table fellowship in late antiquity, early Judaism, and early Christianity, 3 Vol., Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2017. ISBN: 978-3-16-153918-3.
  • IRENÄUS von Lyon, Epideixis. Adversus Haereses. Darlegung der apostolischen Verkündigung. Gegen die Häresien I. Übersetzt und eingeleitet von Norbert Brox, (Fontes Christiani 8), Freiburg im Briesgau: Herder 1993. ISBN: 3451222256.
  • IRENÄUS von Lyon, Adversus Haereses/Gegen die Häresien II - V: Übersetzt und eingeleitet von Norbert Brox, (Fontes Christiani 8), Freiburg im Briesgau: Herder 1993-2001.

B)

  • BARTON, John. The Spirit and the Letter: Studies in the Biblical Canon. London: SPCK, 1997. ISBN 978-0281050116.
  • HARNACK, Adolf von. Marcion: Das Evangelium vom fremden Gott: Eine Monographie zur Geschichte der Grundlegung der katholischen Kirche. Leipzig: Hinrichs (2), 1924.
  • HILL, Charles. Who Chose the Gospels? Probing the Great Gospel Conspiracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0199640294.
  • IRENAEUS von Lyon. Epideixis. Adversus Haereses. Darlegung der apostolischen Verkündigung. Gegen die Häresien I. Übersetzt und eingeleitet von Norbert Brox. (Fontes Christiani 8). Freiburg im Briesgau: Herder, 1993. ISBN 345122125X.
  • KRUGER, Michael J. Canon revisited: establishing the origins and authority of the New Testament books. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway, 2012. ISBN 978-1433530807.
  • MCDONALD, Lee Martin a James A. Sanders (eds.). The Canon Debate. Peabody: Hendrickson, 2002. ISBN 1565635175.
  • ROTH, Dieter T. The Text of Marcion’s Gospel. (New Testament tools, studies and documents 49). Leiden: Brill, 2015. ISBN 978-9004245204.
  • TERTULLIANUS, Quintus Septimius Florens. Adversus Marcionem: Eingeleitet und übersetzt von Volker Lukas (Fontes Christiani 63). Wien: Herder, 2015. ISBN 978-3451328978.

Teaching methods -
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (04.02.2021)

Aktivní účast v semináři, převzetí jednoho tématu semináře.

Registration requirements -
Last update: ThDr. Marketa Langer, Ph.D. (05.02.2021)

Vyučující:

doc. PhDr. Jiří Pavlík, Ph.D.;

doc. ThDr. Kamila Veverková, Ph.D.;

prof. ThDr. Jan Blahoslav Lášek, Dr.h.c.;

doc. ThDr. Jiří Gebelt, Th.D.

 
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