Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
Knowledge:
To study and understand a religious or philosophical issue utilizing sources
To know the mutual influences of national and Christian literature in the first centuries
To realize the common concerns and common problem that characterizes the Hellenistic environment the appearance of Christianity
To understand the reasons that may lead to conversion and the impact this has on people's lives
To realize that the literary imprinting of conversion may suffer some processing large or small
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course is presented, with the help of texts, the way
in which is described the experience of conversion the Christianity
mainly by themselves converts. Representative
cases is the conversion of the apostle Paul, the Holy Au-
goustin, Anthony the Great and Constantine the Great. At the same time are presented autobiographical texts of national literature concerning the conversion to philosophy, such as the conversion of Marcus Aurelius and of Dio Chrysostom.