ANCIENT CHRISTIAN LITERATURE

The course aims to provide the students with the knowledge of the biblical sources and Christian literary production in its fundamental development lines. The course also aims to provide students with appropriate methodologies for the analysis of biblical and literary sources.

The course will focus on the analysis of biblical and literary sources of the early Christian centuries, with particular reference to the formal and institutional aspects of the "human couple" sublimated in the institution of marriage.

C. Moreschini – E. Norelli, Manuale di letteratura cristiana antica greca e latina, Morcelliana, Brescia 2006, pp 7-484.

G. Sfameni Gasparro - C. Magazzù - C. Aloe Spada (a cura di), La coppia nei Padri, Edizioni Paoline, Milano 1991, pp. 12-140; 173-441.

Please remember that in compliance with art 171 L22.04.1941, n. 633 and its amendments, it is illegal to copy entire books or journals, only 15% of their content can be copied.

For further information on sanctions and regulations concerning photocopying please refer to the regulations on copyright (Linee Guida sulla Gestione dei Diritti d’Autore) provided by AIDRO - Associazione Italiana per i Diritti di Riproduzione delle opere dell’ingegno (the Italian Association on Copyright).

All the books listed in the programs can be consulted in the Library.