LECTURE TITLES

1. The Anabaptists

2. The Anglican Reformation

3. The Counter-Reformation

4. The Counter-Reformation: Missions

5. The Puritan Challenge, Triumph, Failure and Success

6. Puritanism and the Inner Life of the Church and the Decline of Puritanism

7. The Enlightenment

8. Continental Pietism

9. The Second Evangelical Revival (1785-1830) - Britain and Europe

10. Second Evangelical Awakening – America   

11. Second Evangelical Awakening continued

12. The Birth of Protestant Mission

13. Schleiermacher and the rise of Liberalism

14. Catholic Revivalism – Anglo-Catholicism, Ultramontanism and Catholic anti-modernism

15. The Rise and Fall of Evangelical Protestantism

16. The Rise and Fall of the Social Gospel Movement

17. The Fundamentalist response to Liberalism  

18. The Church’s Response to Hitler: Bonhoeffer and the Confessing Church  

19. The Korean Church in the Twentieth Century

20. The Chinese Church in the Twentieth Century

21. The African Church in the Twentieth Century

22. Twentieth Century Pentecostalism – the case of Latin America

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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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