St. Stephen Course of Studies
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(UNIT I)
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JUDAISM AND THE NEW TESTMENT
An Essay by sub-deacon
William-John (Bill) Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox
Theology) - Study Resources: A History of the Christian Church, Williston
Walker
Ø
ALEXANDRIA &
ANTIOCH SCHOOLS
An Essay by sub-deacon
William-John (Bill) Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox
Theology) Study Resources: A History of the Christian Church, Williston Walker
Ø
MONASTICISM FROM ANTHONY TO BENEDICT
An Essay by sub-deacon
William-John (Bill) Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox
Theology) Study Resources: A History of the Christian Church, Williston Walker
(UNIT II)
Ø Iconoclasm
An Essay by deacon
William-John (Bill) Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox
Theology)
Ø The Great Schism
An Essay by deacon William-John
(Bill) Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø
Byzantium &
THE ROMAN CHURCH (by Francis Dvornic)
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø Patriarch Photios
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø Filioque
An Essay by deacon
William-John (Bill) Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox
Theology)
(Unit I)
Ø
The Liturgy – Various Interpretations of
the Great Entrance
An Essay by sub-deacon
William-John (Bill) Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox
Theology) – Study Resources: Taft, SJ
Ø
THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
An Essay by sub-deacon William-John
(Bill) Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology) - Study
Resources: Of Water and the Spirit, by Alexander Schmemann
Ø
THE LAST SUPPER
(EUCHARIST)
An Essay by sub-deacon
William-John (Bill) Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox
Theology) Study Resources: The Eucharist in the New Testament, Jerome Kodell
FUNDAMENTALS – MENTOR:
V.REV.FR. JOSEPH ALLEN, P.Hd.
(Unit I – term 1)
Ø
THE DOCTRINE OF DEIFICATION
(THEOSIS)
An Essay by sub-deacon William-John
(Bill) Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology) - Study
Resources: The Orthodox Church, by Timothy Ware (Bishop Kallistos Ware)
Ø
CHURCH'S TEACHING ON THE SACRAMENT OF
REPENTANCE
An Essay by sub-deacon William-John
(Bill) Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology) - Study
Resources: The Orthodox Church, by Timothy Ware (Bishop Kallistos Ware)
(Unit III)
Ø
Sacrament of
confession from “Public penance”
to “private confession”.
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø
Sunday and
Pascha
(connection to the paschal mystery)
– Resource: Festal Menaion (by Mother Mary and Kallistos Ware)
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø
Sickness, death
and sin – The Orthodox Church perspective
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
(Unit II)
Ø
First &
Second Kings:
o
The Northern Kingdom (History from Jeroboam I to the fall of Samaria)
o
Book of Jeremiah
o
Book of Jonah (The Message)
(Unit III)
Ø The Image of Church as developed in the Pauline
Epistles
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill) Clark
(Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø Jesus’ attitude towards the earthly reaches,
according to the Gospels’ records
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø Jerusalem Temple according to St. Luke
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
(Unit IV)
Ø Vladimir
Losky – Apophatic Theology –
Union vs. knowledge
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
(Unit V)
Ø Orthodox Gnosiology – Mystical Explaining of All
meanings
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø Apophatic Theology – Union vs. knowledge
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
(Unit
I)
Ø Tertillian’s Christology & Irenaeus Ecclesiology
in the Early Church
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø
The Scholars and
Fathers of the Exegetical methods
(contrast of typology & allegory)
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø
“The Salvation
through Christ” -
(3rd Century theories in the Eastern Fathers)
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
(Unit IV)
Ø
Jesus Sonship to
the Father (according to St. John)
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø
Relationship
between Jesus and the Holy Spirit (according to the Pauline Epistles)
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill) Clark
(Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø
The Holy Trinity
on New Testament Grounds
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
PASTORAL THEOLOGY I –
MENTOR: V.REV.FR. JOSEPH ALLEN, P.Hd.
(Unit V)
Ø
The Ministry of
the Church – Pastoral Care
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø
Orthodox Syntesis
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø
The Diary of a
russian priest (Fr. Alexander Elchaninov)
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
DOCTRINE iI – Mentor: Very Rev. Fr. JOSEPH ANTYPAS
(Unit V)
Ø Introduction in the ORTHODOX Theology -
Vladimir Losky –
An Essay by deacon
William-John (Bill) Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox
Theology)
Ø
ST. BASILK’S BOOK: ON THE HOLY SPIRIT
An Essay by deacon
William-John (Bill) Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox
Theology)
(Unit V)
Ø
Seven Ecumenical
Councils – Post Nikean Fathers (Series 14th)
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø
The Manual of
Orthodox Canon Law, by prof. DR. LEWIS PATSAVOS
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø
Marriage - An
Orthodox Perspective, by John Mayendorff
An
Essay by deacon William-John (Bill) Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study
in Orthodox Theology)
(Unit VI)
Ø The Life of Fr. John of Kronstadt
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)
Ø The Mystery of Fidelity – by Fr. Joseph Allen
An Essay by deacon William-John (Bill)
Clark (Ref.: St. Stephen's Course of Study in Orthodox Theology)