History of Doctrines I

• The first theological controversies of the Early Church with Jews and Gentiles; the christological teaching of the apostolic fathers.
• Adoptionist and docetist trends in the Early Church
• The doctrine of Trinity before Origen
• The life and theological importance of Origen
• The most important expressions from the field of the doctrine of Trinity and Christology: ousia, physis, hypostasis, prosopon
• The first general theological controversy: Arius and the arianism; the first Ecumenical Council of Nicea and its Creed.
• Teological controversies after Nicea: the councils of Sardica and Sirmium.
• The life and theological importance of Athanasius
• Christological and pneumatological side tracks: Apollinaris, Macedonius and the pneumatomachians.
• The theology of the Cappadocian fathers I: Basil the Great, Gregory of Nazianz.
• The theology of the Cappadocian fathers II: Gregory of Nyssa
• The life and theological significance of Amphilochius of Iconium
• The Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople: its prelude, convocation, events and Creed
• The canons and results of the Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople