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Knowledge and understanding of the teaching on the incarnation of God and its multifaceted implications for the Christian way of thinking and living.

In this lecture we will familiarize ourselves with the biblical, patristic and medieval roots of the Christian teaching on the incarnation of God and learn to assess later developments in the light of this sapiential tradition. To perform this task, we will develop a phenomenologically elaborated understanding of the christian doctrine of Christ as philosophical articulation of a spiritual, liturgical and ecclesial practice of thinking, and learn to reflect critically on the conflicts it provoked in the history of Christian learning and modern interpretations of these conflicts. Designed as a systematic approach to the theological and philosophical hub of Christian orthodoxy, this lecture will be the key to all my accompanying and following lectures. It will enable students to translate the theological heritage of the past into the context of our contemporary, post-confessional world.

Lecture.

Oral examination.

General information on exams, dates and sign-on at the department:
https://www.uibk.ac.at/systheol/lehre/pruefungen.html.en.

Required readings that go partly beyond the subject of the lecture:
Katechismus der Katholischen Kirche. Zweiter Abschnitt: Erstes Kapitel: Artikel 1, Absätze 1 und 2; Zweites Kapitel: Artikel 2-7; Drittes Kapitel: Artikel 8.
Athanasius, "Über die Menschwerdung des Wortes Gottes / De incarnatione verbi". In: Uta Heil (Ed.), Gegen die Heiden. Über die Menschwerdung des Wortes Gottes. Über die Beschlüsse der Synode von Nizäa (Frankfurt am Main: Insel 2008), 75-146.
Anselm von Canterbury, Cur deus homo - Warum Gott Mensch geworden. Lat.-dt. übers. von F.S. Schmitt. (Stuttgart - Bad Cannstadt: WBG 1956).
Karl Barth, Die kirchliche Dogmatik (Zürich: Theologischer Verlag 1986),  I.2 §15.
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theodramatik Bd. 3: Die Handlung (Einsiedeln: Johannes 1980).
Christoph von Schönborn, Gott sandte seinen Sohn: Christologie (Bonifatius: Schöningh 2003).
Aaron Riches, Ecce Homo. On the Divine Unity of Christ (Grand Rapies: Eerdmans 2016) or Rowan Williams, Christ. The Heart of Creation (London: Bloomsbury 2018).

For Diploma Programme in Catholic Theology: successful completion of compulsory module 1 of the first part of the studies.