Learning Outcomes
Students who have attended the course are able
to know the evolution of the encyclical education of Ancient Greece to Higher Education and the foundation of the Universities of Western Europe within the context of the Roman Catholic Church
to deal with the problem of Theology as a field of scientific research
to learn about the double methodology of the Greek fathers of the Church (experimental and academic theology
to be familiar with the conservative and the dynamic approach of the Tradition
to realize the role of Theology in the academic and social multicultural context
to be able to write essays
Course Content (Syllabus)
The meaning of Encyclopedia of Theology and Introduction to Theology. The meaning of Theology according to the philosophical thought and the Christian writers of early Christian centuries. The education in the Greek speaking East and Latin speaking West and the teaching of Theology until the 15th century. The emergence of studium generale and the first European universities.Scholasticism and its encounter with the double methodology of the East theological thought. The study of Theology in the modern universities and in Greece.
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
1. Δήμητρα Α. Κούκουρα, Η Σπουδή στη Θεολογία, εκδ. Μπαρμπουνάκη, Θεσσαλονίκη, 2016.
2. Δήμητρα Α. Κούκουρα, Εισαγωγή στη σπουδή της Θεολογίας, εκδ. Μπαρμπουνάκη, Θεσσαλονίκη 2013.