JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Spring 2004

Early Christianity in Syria & Asia Minor
RL 499.01 WSD/CS
Sheila E. McGinn, Ph.D., Instructor

REQUIRED TEXTS:

1. Raymond E. Brown and John P. Meier, Antioch & Rome: New Testament Cradles of Catholic Christianity (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist, 1983), pp. 1-86. (This book is out of print. If you can find a used copy, that's great. Otherwise, it will be on reserve in Grasselli Library.)
2. Selected readings from: J. Neuner and J. Dupuis, eds., The Christian Faith in the Doctrinal Documents of the Catholic Church, revised edition (New York: Alba, 1982).
3. Richard A. Norris, Jr., tr. and ed., The Christological Controversy (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980).
4. Cyril C. Richardson, ed., Early Christian Fathers (New York: Macmillan, 1979), pp. 1-179.
5. Selections from: Philip F. Esler, The Early Christian World, 2 vols. (London and New York: Routledge, 2000).
6. Selections from: Helmut Koester, Introduction to the New Testament (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2000); two volumes.
7. William G. Rusch, tr. and ed., The Trinitarian Controversy (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980).