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).

Contemporary Works 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). Available on line: www.newmanreader.org
   3. Karl Rahner, Foundations of Christian Faith (New York: Seabury, 1978), chap 1-5.
   4. Joseph Ratzinger, Introduction to Christianity, rev. ed. (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2004)
   5. B.J.F. Lonergan, Method in Theology (New York: Seabury, 1971).
   6. Avery Dulles, Models of Revelation (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983).
   7. Francis A. Sullivan, Magisterium: Teaching Authority in the Catholic Church (New York/Ramsey, NJ: Paulist Press, 1983).
   8. George Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1984).
      Trinity and Christology
2. Trinity and Christology
   
   1. Trinity
      1. Bonaventure, Disputed Questions on the Trinity, trans. Zachary Hayes (St.
      2. Bonaventure:  Franciscan Institute Publications, 1979).
      3. Gilles Emery, The Trinitarian Theology of St Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2007).
      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).
         
   2. 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).
      3. Karl Rahner, Foundations of Christian Faith, trans. W. Dych (New York: Seabury, 1978), 176-321.
      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
   1. Ecclesiology
      1. Cyprian, On the Unity of the Church, in Treatises (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1958).
      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).
   2.  Sacramentology
      1. 1. Louis-Marie Chauvet, The Sacraments (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2001).
         2. Johann Auer, A General Doctrine of the Sacraments and the Mystery of the Eucharist (Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America, 1995).
         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
   1. 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).
      4. John Zizioulas, Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church (Crestwood, N.Y. : St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1985).
   2. 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. Anthony Kelly, Eschatology and Hope (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2006).
      4. Jerry Walls, The Oxford Handbook of Eschatology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 3-109, 215-232, 384-461, 563-595.