
Lecture Description
The aftermath of the Pelagian Controversy has echoed through church history, especially after the Reformation. Although the Reformers all followed Augustinian theology on idea of original sin and predestination, the Arminian (and later Wesleyan) view returned to a modified semi-pelagian understanding, albeit with a far more robust appreciation for the effects of the Fall. This lecture summarizes those later developments, and brings the discussion of the Pelagian controversy to its conclusion.
Course Index
- Introduction to the Major Themes of Philosophy
- The Ionian Philosophers
- The Italian Philosophers
- The Athenian Pluralists
- The Life and Times of Socrates
- Introduction to Plato
- Plato's World of the Forms
- Plato's Parable of the Cave
- Dualism in Plato
- Introduction to Aristotle
- Aristotle's Metaphysics
- Aristotle's Categories
- Aristotle's Theory of Language
- Aristotle's God
- The Epicureans
- Stoicism
- Philo of Alexandria
- The Christian Synthesis
- Early Christian Apologists
- Antiochan Christianity
- Alexandrian Christianity
- The Council of Nicaea
- Manichaeism
- Neo-Platonism
- The Life of Augustine
- Overview of Augustin's Thought
- Augustin's Epistemology
- Augustin's Epistemology (part 2)
- Augustin's Theory of Faith
- Augustin's Understanding of the Church
- The Pelagian Controversy
- The Pelagian Controversy (cont)
- The Pelagian Controversy (concl)
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Anselm's Cur Deus Homo
- Introduction to the Classical Synthesis
- The Classical Synthesis (part 2)
- Thomas Aquinas and the Five Ways
- Art, Philosophy, and the Renaissance
Course Description
This wide ranging course starts with the pre-Socratic philosophers of the ancient world, and traces the history of philosophical speculation across the ages up to the present. Included along the way is special attention to the greatest Christian thinkers in history, including Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin and many others.