Summer School: The Age of Constantine

2012 Summer School: The Age of Constantine

The Rockford Institute’s 15th Annual Summer School
The Age of Constantine
July 10-15, 2012
Rockford, Illinois

In the fourth century, at the very moment when the Church emerged from the catacombs, “The whole world groaned,” Saint Jerome wrote, “and was amazed to find itself Arian.”  As blood martyrdom gave way to a different kind of threat, God raised up holy and courageous men, from Saint Athanasius to Saint Augustine, to destroy heresy through a brilliant exposition of the living Faith that still inspires Christians today.

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Conference Reading List:

• Gibbon, Edward: Decline and Fall, chapters  XIII-25
• Burckhardt, Jacob: The Age of Constantine the Great
• Marcellinus, Ammianus: History (The Later Roman Empire, Penguin)*
• Eusebius: Ecclesiastical History
  Life of Constantine
  "Oration on Constantine's 30th Anniversary"
• "Reply to Hierocles"
• Porphyry: "Life of Plotinus"
• "Letter to Marcella"*
• Fragments of Against the Christians
• Iamblichus: On the Mysteries
• Julian: "The Caesars"
• "Against the Galileans"
• Sallustius: "On the Gods and the World"
• Ambrose: De Officiis Ministrorum, On the Duties of the Clergy
• Athanasius: Life of Anthony
• Lactantius: The Divine Institutes
  On the Deaths of the Persecutors
• Basil the Great: On Social Justice (ed. C. Paul Schroeder)
• On the Human Condition (tr. Nonna Verna Harrison)
• Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns on Paradise