LECTURE TITLES

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1. The Early Church: An Introduction

2. The Pastoral Theologians and Apologists of the Early Church

3. Augustine: Part 1

4. Augustine: Part 2

5. Arianism, Nicea, The Trinity

6. The Rise of Monasticism 

7. Early Europe: The Celtic Churches

8. Early Europe: The Conversion of the Barbarians

9. The Re-emergence of the Roman Church c500-1050 A.D.

10. Monastic Renewal in the High Middle Ages

11. Renewal in Church and State

12. The Crusades

13. Second Wave of Renewal: Benedict and Francis of Assisi

14. The Development of Christian Thought in the High Middle Ages

15. The Eastern Church

16. Decline and the Black Death

17. Variant Responses and Attempts at Reform

18. Why a Reformation Now?

19. Luther I

20. Luther II

21. Anabaptism

22. Zwingli, Calvin and the Reformed Tradition

23. The Reformed Movement concluded

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Required Reading

 

1. Gonzalez, Justo. The Story of Christianity. Volume 1: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation. NY: HarperCollins, 2010. 

2. Gonzalez, Justo. The Story of Christianity. Volume 2: The Reformation to the Present Day.  NY: HarperCollins, 2010.  

3. Fea, John. Why Study History? Reflecting on the Importance of the Past (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2013).

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