CH 3180

This course engages some key figures – “doctors” of the Church – through their sermons. It (A) offers an exploration of their theology and the historical debates against which their theology was framed, and (B) interrogates their written sermons to learn about how they sought to proclaim their faith in their cultural milieux. “Doctors” engaged will include John Chrysostom, John of Damascus,Hildegard of Bingen, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Martin Luther King Jr.