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Lessons

Year 3: Church History

  1. The First 1800 Years: The Agenda Develops
  2. The Roman Empire
  3. Early Christian Documents
  4. The Apologists: Justin and Irenaeus
  5. Schism and Developments: Tertullian and Cyprian
  6. On the Eve of the Councils
  7. From Constantine to Charlemagne: An Overview
  8. The Developing Faith of the Early Church: The Trinity and the Person of Christ
  9. Apollinaris and Nestorius
  10. Christology Defined: Chalcedon
  11. The Doctrine of the Trinity
  12. Eastern Spirituality
  13. The East through the 8th Century
  14. Augustine of Hippo: Salvation by Grace
  15. The Rise of the Middle Ages
  16. The Medieval Church; Feudalism and Reform
  17. Medieval Monasticism and Mysticism
  18. Medieval Scholasticism
  19. The Franciscan Schoolmen
  20. The Crusades
  21. The Late Middle Ages
  22. The End of the Middle Ages: The Councils and the Renaissance
  23. The Eve of the Reformation
  24. The German Reformation: Martin Luther
  25. The Reformation Develops
  26. The Swiss Reformation
  27. The Radical Reformation
  28. The Catholic Reformation
  29. The Reformation in England
  30. Anglicanism in the Sixteenth Century
  31. Religion in Seventeenth Century England
  32. Sixteenth Century Europe: Definition and Dissent
  33. Rationalism and Revival: Pietism and Methodism
  34. American Independence

 

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Topics covered:

The Early Church Fathers *Gnosticism *Montanism *The Apologists *Irenaeus *Clement and Origen *The Great Cappadocians *Athanasius *Tertullian to Augustine *Nicea to Chalcedon *Early Litugies *Spirituality: Monasticism, Mysticism, and Prayer *The Medieval Church *Aquinas and Bonaventure *Secularism, Religious Dissent *The Reformation: Luther and Calvin *The Catholic Reformation *The Radical Reformation *Anglicanism, Puritanism, Pietism *The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries *The Industrial Revolution *John Wesley: The Methodist Church.

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