I. Introduction to Dialectic
- A. Plato, Republic
II. Origin: Myths and Revelation
- A. Enuma Elish
- B. Epic of Gilgamesh
- C. Genesis
III. Revelation: the Chosen People
- A. Exodus
- B. Job
- C. Psalms
- D. Ecclesiastes
- E. Isaiah
- F. Maccabees
IV. Natural Reason, from Poetry to Science: Greece
- A. Homer, Iliad
- B. Homer, Odyssey
- C. Plato
- 1. Euthyphro
- 2. Apology
- 3. Phaedo
- D. Aristotle
- 1. Physics
- 2. Nicomachean Ethics
- 3. Politics
- 4. Metaphysics
V. Government of the Earthly City and the Pursuit of Happiness: Rome
- A. Plutarch, Parallel Lives
- B. Virgil, Aeneid
- C. Cicero, Hortensius
VI. Revelation: the Heavenly City
- A. The Gospel according to St. John
- B. Church Fathers
- 1. On Sacred Tradition and its Authority
- a. Irenaeus
- b. Basil
- c. Vincent of Lerin
- 2. Nature of God
- a. Irenaeus
- b. Clement of Alex.
- c. Basil
- d. Theophilus
- e. Athanasius
- f. Hilary
- g. Augustine
- h. Ambrose
- i. Augustine
- j. Clement of Alex.
- k. Tertullian
- 3. Origins of Creation
- a. Athanasius
- b. Theophilus of Antioch
- c. Irenaeus
- 4. The Curse of Sin
- a. Leo
- b. Athanasius
- c. Cyprian
- 5. Incarnation
- a. St. Ignatius' Martyrdom
- b. Athanasius
- c. Ambrose
- d. Leo
- e. Vincent of Lerin
- f. St. John of Damascus
- 6. New Sacrifice: Lifting the Curse
- a. Justin Martyr
- b. Ambrose
- c. John Chrysostom
- d. Augustine
- e. Cyprian
- f. Hilary
- g. Basil
- h. Ignatius
- i. Gregory
- 1. On Sacred Tradition and its Authority
- C. Final Synthesis
- 1. St. Augustine, City of God
- 2. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
- 3. St. Anselm, Proslogion
