Fall 2021 Courses
Fall 2021 courses begin August 30th and conclude November 19th. Registration for fall courses closes one week before the beginning of the semester. All courses are 3 credits.
Liberal Arts Courses
THL 101
Salvation History I
M 6:00pm – 8:40pm CT
Nathan Schmiedicke
Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings, Ezra, Nehemiah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, 1 Maccabees
PHL 201
Philosophy of Man
T/F 12:00pm – 1:20pm CT
Vincent DeMeo
Aristotle On the Soul; Parts of Animals (selections)
St. Thomas Aquinas Commentary on Aristotle’s On the Soul; Compendium theologiae 78–90
Baldner, De Koninck, George, et al., Selected essays
HMN 101
Gods and Heroes in Ancient Greece
M/W 2:00pm – 3:20pm CT
Jason Baxter
Homer, Hymns, Iliad, Odyssey
Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Antigone
Euripides, Bacchae
Plato, Symposium, Phaedrus
PHL 101
Tools of Philosophy
T/Th 7:00pm – 8:20pm CT
Jacob Terneus
Aristotle, Categories; On Interpretation; Prior and Posterior Analytics (selections)
Plato, Alcibiades, Cratylus, Meno
Porphyry, Isagoge
HMN 201
The Medieval Vision
Evening or Weekend,
determined by students
Jason Baxter
St. Augustine, Confessions
Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy
Dante, Commedia: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
HMN 102
The Roman Order
M/W 6:00pm – 7:20pm CT
James DeMasi
Livy, History of Rome
Plutarch, Lives of Noble Grecians and Romans
Virgil, Aeneid
Ovid, Metamorphoses
Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Cicero (selections)
St. Augustine, City of God
PHL 102
Philosophy of Nature
M/W 4:00pm – 5:20pm CT
John Mortensen
Aristotle, Physics I–III.3
St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Physics III 1–3; On the Principles of Nature
Plato, Timaeus and Phaedo (selections)
Presocratic fragments
THL 102
Salvation History II
T/TH 9:30am – 10:50am CT
Susan Waldstein
Gospel of Luke, Acts of the Apostles, Romans, Hebrews, Revelation
St. Vincent of Lerins, Commonitory for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith
St. Augustine, On Christian Doctrine
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae I.1
Vatican I, Dei Filius
Vatican II, Dei Verbum
Romano Guardini, Sacred Signs
Graduate Theology Courses
THL 513
Church Fathers I
M/W 3:00pm – 4:20pm CT
Michael Foley
St. Clement of Rome, First Epistle
St. Ignatius of Antioch, Epistles
St. Polycarp, Epistle to the Philippians
Anon., The Martyrdom of Polycarp
Anon., The Epistle to Diognetus
Anon., The Didache
St. Cyprian, On the Unity of the Church
St. Augustine, Confessions, On Christian Doctrine
St. Gregory Nazianzen, Theological Orations
St. Basil, On the Holy Spirit
Pseudo-Dionysius, The Divine Names
THL 522
Mystery of the Trinity
Saturday 12:30pm – 3:10pm CT
Susan Waldstein
St. Augustine, On the Trinity
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae I, qq. 27–43
Preface of the Most Holy Trinity
Council of Florence
THL 521
On the Psalms and Isaiah
T/F 10:00am – 11:20am CT
Vinent DeMeo
St. Athanasius, Letter to Marcellinus
St. Augustine, Expositions on the Psalms
St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Psalms; Commentary on Isaiah
THL 511
The Book of Job
Sat 6:00pm – 8:40pm CT
Nathan Schmiedicke
St. Gregory the Great, Moralia in Iob
St. Thomas, Commentary on Job
THL 522
The Mystery of the Holy Trinity
M/W 10:00am – 11:20am CT
John Mortensen
St. Augustine, On the Trinity
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae I, qq. 27–43
Preface of the Most Holy Trinity
Council of Florence
THL 523
Church Fathers II
TH 10:00am – 12:40pm CT
Thomas Clemmons
Councils of Nicaea, Constantinople I, Ephesus, Chalcedon, and Nicaea II
Readings from Arius, Alexander of Alexandria, Eusebius, and Nestorius
St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation; Orations against the Arians
St. Gregory Nazianzen, Orations on the Nativity, Baptism of Christ, Baptism, Pentecost, and Holy Pascha
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Mystagogical Catecheses
St. Cyril of Alexandria, The Unity of Christ
St. Leo the Great, Letter to Flavian
St. Maximus Confessor, Disputation with Pyrrhus
St. Theodore the Studite, Refutations of the Iconoclasts
Pseudo-Dionysius, The Celestial Hierarchy and The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy