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The Faculty Board of Divinity give notice that they have selected the following special subjects and prescribed texts for the Preliminary Examination for Part II of the Theological and Religious Studies Tripos, 2001 (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 228 and see Reporter, p. 859):
| A. | Hebrew Genesis 37 and 40-45. |
| B. | New Testament Greek John 1-5. |
| C. | Sanskrit Mahābhārata 2.66-68 (Poona edition, 1933-66). Hitopadeśa, extracts 2-11 (C. R. Lanman, A Sanskrit Reader, pp. 16-35); Bhagavadghītā ch. 3-4. |
| D. | Qur'anic Arabic The Qur'ān, I:1-7, II:1-23, IV:93-100, LIII:1-40. al-Bukhārī, al-Jāmi al-Ṣaḥīḥ (Cairo, 1313 ah), vol.I, pp. 1-10. al-Isfarā'īnī, al TabṢīr fi'l-dīn (Beirut, 1983 ce), pp. 45-6, 97-9. |
2 Esdras 3-14; the Wisdom of Solomon 6-12; Ecclesiasticus 44-51; 1 Maccabees 1-2; the Genesis Apocryphon; the Psalms of Solomon 17, 18; the Eighteen Benedictions. For the last three texts see G. Vermes, The Dead Sea Scrolls in English (4th edn. London, 1995), pp. 292-99; H. F. D. Sparks (ed.), The Apocryphal Old Testament (Oxford, 1984), pp. 676-82; E. Schürer, G. Vermes, F. Millar, and M. Black (eds.), The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ, Vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1979), pp. 455-63.
There are no set texts for this paper.
Deuteronomy 5-15; Job 1-2, 42.7-17; Judges 13-16; Jonah.
Isaiah 1-12.
John.
There is no set text this year.
The special topic is: The Parables
There is no set text this year.
Athanasius, Contra Gentes (tr. R. W. Thomson, Oxford, 1971); Augustine, Confessions, Books III, IV, and VII (tr. H. Chadwick, Oxford, 1991); Aquinas, Summa Theologiae 1a, 1 (Summa Theologiae, Vol. I, Christian Theology, tr. and ed. T. Gilby [London, 1964]); J. Calvin, Institutio iv: 17 (LCC, Vol. xxi [London, 1961]), pp. 1359-1428, 'The Sacred Supper of Christ and What it Brings to Us'.
A. The rise and formation of Christianity to AD 600, to include such issues as: the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire and on its margins; the persecution of Christians; the formation of orthodox tradition and hereseology; the development of Christian worship; early Christian attitudes towards paganism; early Christian attitudes towards Judaism. B. Doctrines of God and of the Person of Christ, to include: the trinitarian and christological controversies of the fourth and fifth centuries. C. The life and thought of Augustine. D. Monasticism and asceticism from Antony to Benedict, to include: the origins of Christian monasticism; Pachomian and Basilian monasticism; monasticism in different regions of the Roman Empire (Italy, Gaul, Egypt, Palestine, Syria); Stylitism; Benedict of Nursia and his rule. E. Late Antique Christianity in its social context, to include: urban and rural Christianity; Christian attitudes to wealth, poverty, slavery, the family, the military; the role of women in the church.
Candidates may confine themselves to Sections A, B, and C.
Gregory VII, Register, tr. E. Emerton, The Correspondence of Gregory VII (New York, 1932), pp. 4-7, 15-6, 18-9, 22-3, 39-42, 48-9, 56-8, 62-4, 81-3, 86-91, 96-9, 105-7, 111-3, 118-20, 147-8, 149-54, 157-60, 163-4, 166-75, 178-81, 188-9, 193-5; The Book of Ste Foy, chapters 1-11, tr. P. Sheingorn (Philadelphia, 1995), pp. 43-73; St Anselm, 'Cur Deus Homo' Book 1, tr. J. Hopkins and H. Richardson, Anselm of Canterbury III (Toronto, 1976), pp. 41-97; 'Meditation on Human Redemption', tr. B. Ward, The Prayers and Meditations of St Anselm (Penguin Books, 1983), pp. 230-7; 'Proslogion', chapter 2, tr. B. Ward, The Prayers and Meditations of St Anselm, pp. 244-5; Guibert of Nogent, Vita, Book 1, chapters 1-19, ed. J. F. Benton, tr. C. C. Swinton Bland, Self and Society in Medieval France: The Memoirs of Abbot Guibert of Nogent (New York, 1970), pp. 35-101: The Life of St Christina of Markyate, ed. and tr. C. H. Talbot (Oxford, 1959), pp. 35-119; (Peter) Abelard, Dialogue of a Philosopher with a Jew and a Christian, prologue, tr. P. J. Payer (Toronto, 1979), pp. 19-23; Ethics, ed. and tr. D. E. Luscombe (OMT, 1971), pp. 3-37; 'Historia Calamitatum', ed. B. Radice, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (London, Penguin Classics, 1974), pp. 57-106; Hugh of St Victor, Didascalicon, Book 2, tr. J. Taylor (New York, 1961), pp. 61-82; St Bernard of Clairvaux, On the Song of Songs, 'Sermon 65', tr. K. Walsh and I. M. Edmonds III (Cistercian Fathers Series, Kalamazoo, 1979), pp. 179-89; 'In Praise of the Virgin Mother', Homily 4, tr. M.-B. Said and G. Perigo, Magnificat (Cistercian Fathers Series, Kalamazoo, 1979), pp. 45-58: 'Documents on Crusading', tr. L. and J. Riley-Smith, The Crusades: Idea and Reality, 1095-1274 (London, 1981), pp. 54-7, 61-3, 64-7, 95-6, 97-8, 102-3, 103-17, 119-24, 125-9; 'Fourth Lateran Council', tr. N. P. Tanner, Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils I (Georgetown, 1990), constitutiones 1-70, pp. 230-67; Scripta Leonis, Rufini et Angeli, sociorum S. Francisci, ed. and tr. R. B. Brooke (OMT, 1970), pp. 88-110, 206-24; 'Documents on Marriage and Divorce', tr. T. Evergates, Feudal Society in Medieval France: Documents from the County of Champagne (Philadephia, 1993), pp. 38-49; St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Blackfriars Edn., London 1964-80) prologue, 1a.1-2 (Vol. 1, pp. 2-41, Vol. 2, pp. 5-19), 3a.75-6 (Vol. 58, pp. 53-123); Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy. II. Purgatorio cantos 1, 3, 5-7, 10, 13, 15, 18-9, 21, 23, 25, 27, ed. and tr. J. D. Sinclair (Oxford Paperbacks, 1971), pp. 19-25, 45-51, 69-75, 81-9, 95-101, 131-7, 169-77, 197-203, 233-9, 245-51, 271-7, 297-303, 325-31, 351-7.
Candidates may confine their attention to the period from 950 to 1200.
'Two devout prayers', in W. Maskell (ed.), Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae (1846), pp. 262-5; R. Knox and S. Leslie (eds.), The Miracles of Henry VI (Cambridge, 1923), pp. 77-84; Erasmus, Praise of Folly (Penguin, ed. A. Levi), pp. 164-73, 196-208; Paraclesis, in J. Olin (ed.), Christian Humanism and the Reformation (Harper, 1965), pp. 93-106; Thomas More, Dialogue of Comfort (Everyman ed.), Book I, chapter 2, pp. 150-3; Luther: The Liberty of a Christian Man, in J. Dillenberger, Martin Luther, pp. 52-85; Calvin, Institutes (ed. McNeil), pp. 920-32, 1359-65, 1368-72, 1381-2; extracts from Beza's Life of Calvin, in A. Duke and A. Pettegree (eds.), Calvinism in Europe (Manchester, 1992), pp. 15-25; G. H. Williams (ed.), Spiritual and Anabaptist Writers (Library of Christian Classics), pp. 138-44; G. Bray (ed.), Documents of the English Reformation (T&T Clark, 1994), pp. 247-57, 285-311, 356-63; The Prayerbooks of Edward VI (Everyman ed., 1910), pp. 3-5, 286-9, 377-93; R. B. Bond (ed.), Certain Sermons or Homilies, pp. 61-7; John Foxe, Acts and Monuments, VII, 424-7, 287-91, 318-21, 542-52; J. H. Pollen (ed.), Unpublished Documents relating to the English Martyrs (Catholic Record Society, 1908), pp. 44-7, 74-88, 205-7; Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse (ed. Emrys Jones), nos. 82, 195, 221, 272, 289, 300, 338; Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse (ed. A. Fowler), nos. 134, 214, 360, 381, 405-7, 409, 411, 554, 778; W. H. Frere and Douglas, Puritan Manifestoes, pp. 20-34; H. C. Porter (ed.), Puritanism in Tudor England, pp. 276-300; P. More and F. L. Cross, Anglicanism, pp. 103-116, 360-4; Richard Baxter, Reliquiae Baxterianiae, pp. 2-4; John Bunyan, Grace Abounding (ed. R. Sharrock, Oxford, 1966), pp. 117-23; Kenyon, Stuart Constitution, pp. 466-9; Norman Tanner (ed.), Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils (London, 1990), Vol. 2, pp. 671-81, 663-4, 750-3; Ignatius Loyola, Works (Classics of Western Spirituality), pp. 107-11, 136-8, 154-6, 167-8, 201-5, 211-4; Gregory Martin, Roma Sancta, pp. 7-11, 44-7, 109-19, 220-9; Letters and Instructions of Francis Xavier (ed. M. J. Costelloe, St Louis, 1992), pp. 41-51; C. R. Boxer, The Christian Century in Japan (Berkeley, 1951), pp. 401-5; Francis de Sales, Introduction to a Devout Life (ed. J. K. Ryan), pp. 43-7, 103-19, 207-8, 226-9; Blaise Pascal, Pensées (ed. Krailsheimer, Penguin Books), pp. 309-18; John Fisher, English Works (EETS, ed. J. E. B. Mayor), pp. 289-303; B. Travitsky, The Paradise of Women: Writings by Englishwomen of the Renaissance (Westport, Connecticut, 1981), pp. 173-86; M. Emmanuel Orchard (ed.), Till God Will: Mary Ward Through her Writings (London), pp. 6-11, 49-61.
Candidates may confine their attention to the period from 1500 to 1565.
H. Bettenson, Documents of the Christian Church (2nd edition) (London 1967), xi, 7, 9, 11, 12; xii, 11, 12, 13; xiii 1; xiv 1, 5.
S. Z. Ehler and J. B. Morrall, Church and State through the Centuries (London, 1954), vii, 2, 6, 8, 9; viii, 4, 11.
R. P. Flindall, The Church of England, 1815-1948: A Documentary History (London, 1972), nos. 1, 4, 5, 16, 24, 25, 26, 45, 46, 47, 58, 60, 61, 66, 70, 75, 79, 90, 97, 98, 100, 101.
P. C. Hodgson and R. H. King, Readings in Christian Theology (London, 1985), ii, 5; iii, 5, 6; iv, 4, 5, 6, 7; v, 4, 6; vi, 2, 3, 4, 5; vii, 4; viii, 5, 6, 7, 8.
J. H. Leith, Creeds of the Churches (Atlanta, 1973), pp. 517-22.
B. M. G. Reardon, Religious Thought in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge, 1966), i, 4, 6, 7; ii, 1, 2, 3, 6.
N. P. Tanner, Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, ii (London, 1990), pp. 849-900, 908-20, 1001-11.
D. M. Thompson, Nonconformity in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1972), nos. 4, 6, 36, 42, 44, 45, 46, 57, 88, 93, 97, 102, 103, 104.
Candidates may confine their attention to either the period from 1800 to 1889, or the period from 1889 to the present day.
Plato, Republic, Book V, 475e4 to end of Book VII, tr. F. M. Cornford; Phaedo, tr. Hugh Tredennick (Penguin Books); Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book XII (tr. H. Tredennick, Loeb ed., London, 1935); Plotinus, Enneads (tr. A. H. Armstrong, Loeb ed., London, 1988), Book VI, 8 & 9; Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Vol. 3, ed. H. McCabe (London, 1964), Ia., q.13; B. Spinoza, Ethics (1677) (tr. R. H. M. Elwes, or T. S. Gregory); D. Hume, Dialogues concerning Natural Religion (1779) (ed. N. Kemp Smith, London, 1947); I. Kant, Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (1793) (tr. T. M. Greene and H. H. Hudson, New York, 1960); G. W. F. Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Vol. III (ed. P. C. Hodgson, Berkeley, 1985), Part III; H. Bergson, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (tr. R. A. Audra and C. Brereton, London, 1935), Ch. III, 'Dynamic Religion'; A. M. Farrer, Faith and Speculation (London, 1967).
The religious traditions of India: Hinduism and Buddhism.
A. Introduction to the life, thought, and worship of Modern Judaism.
B. Introduction to the life, thought, and worship of Islam.
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