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S.T.L. Comps Book List: SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY

revised May 4, 2021

A. CONCILIAR WORKS: All students must follow this list. No substitutions.

1. Doctrinal Decrees and Canons of the Council of Trent, in Norman Tanner, ed., Decrees of the Ecumenical Council, Vol. 2 (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1990), Sessions 4-7 (663-681, 684-686), 13-14 (693-698, 703-713), 21-25 (726-728, 732-737, 742-744, 753-759, 774-776, 796-797).

2. Vatican I, Dei Filius, in Norman Tanner, ed., Decrees of the Ecumenical Council, Vol. 2 (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1990).

3. Vatican II, Sacrosanctum Concilium, Lumen Gentium, Dei Verbum, and Gaudium et Spes, in Norman Tanner, ed., Decrees of the Ecumenical Council, Vol. 2 (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1990).

B. WORKS SPECIFIC TO TOPICS

Note: Students may use the following list or, using this list as a guide, prepare a comparable list with the approval of the director and reader, subject to the guidance of the Pontifical Degrees Committee.

THREE of the following four thematic areas are to be chosen.

1. Foundational Theology

1. Augustine of Hippo, Teaching Christianity (De Doctrina Christiana), trans. Edmund Hill (Hyde Park, New York: New City Press, 1996).

2. John Henry Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, (Shepherdstown, WV: Patmos, 1975). Chapters 1-5. Available on line:

3. Karl Rahner, Foundations of Christian Faith (New York: Crossroad, 2015), chap 1-5 (pp. 1-175).

4. Joseph Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity, rev. ed. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2004), pp. 15-204.

5. Francis A. Sullivan, Magisterium: Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church (New York/Ramsey, NJ: Paulist Press, 1983).

6. George Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1984).

7. Denis Farkasfalvy, Inspiration and Interpretation: A Theological Introduction to Sacred Scripture (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2010).

8. Avery Dulles, Craft of Theology: From Symbol to System, new expanded edition (New York: Crossroad, 1995).

2. Trinity and Christology

a. Trinity

1. Gregory of Nazianzus, Theological Oration 5, in God and Christ (Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press), pp 117-147.

2. Bonaventure, Disputed Questions on the Trinity, trans. Zachary Hayes (St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute Publications, 1979), pp 107-266.

3. Gilles Emery, The Trinitarian Theology of St Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2007), pp 1-268.

4. Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1936), Vol. I/1, §8-12. 

5. Karl Rahner, The Trinity (New York: Herder & Herder, 1970).

b. Christology

1. Brian Daley, God Visible: Patristic Christology Reconsidered (Oxford University Press, 2018).

2. Anselm, Cur Deus Homo in Brian Davies and G.R. Evans, eds., Anselm of Canterbury: The Major Works (Oxford University Press, 1998), pp 260-356.

3. Matthias Joseph Scheeben, The Mysteries of Christianity, trans. Cyril O. Vollert (New York: Herder and Herder, 2006), 313-465.

4. Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theo-Drama: Theological Dramatic Theory (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1988-1998), Vol. III, 149-202, and Vol. IV, 231-388.

3. Ecclesiology and Sacramentology

a. Ecclesiology

1. Cyprian, On the Unity of the Church, in Treatises (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1958), pp. 91-124.

2. Henri de Lubac, The Splendor of the Church (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1999).

3. Avery Dulles, Models of the Church, rev. ed. (Garden City, NY: Image Books, 1987).

4. J. -M.-R. Tillard, Flesh of the Church, Flesh of Christ: At the Source of the Ecclesiology of Communion (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1989)

5. Nicholas Afanasiev, The Church of the Holy Spirit (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).

b. Sacramentology

1. Louis-Marie Chauvet, The Sacraments: The Word of God at the Mercy of the Body 

(Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2001).

2. Francis Schüssler Fiorenza & John P. Galvin, eds. Systematic Theology: Roman Catholic Perspectives, 2nd ed. (Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2011), pp. 461-620.

3. Herbert Vorgrimler, Sacramental Theology (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1992).

4. Alexander Schmemann, For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy, 2nd ed. (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2002).

4. Anthropology and Eschatology

a. Anthropology

1. Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae I 75-83; I-II 82-89, 109-114.

2. Henri de Lubac, Mystery of the Supernatural (New York: Herder & Herder, 2015).

3. William T. Cavanaugh and James K. A. Smith, ed., Evolution and the Fall (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2017), xv-135

4. John Zizioulas, Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church (Crestwood, N.Y. : St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1985).

b. Eschatology

1. Augustine, City of God, trans. William Babcock (New York: New City Press, 2013), books 20, 21, 22.

2. Joseph Ratzinger, Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2007).

3. Jerry Walls, The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 3-109, 215-232, 384-461, 563-595.

4. Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation, Rev. ed., trans. Caridad Inda and John Eagleson (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1988), pp. 81-174.

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