The History of Christianity: From the Disciples to the Dawn of the Reformation

Table of Contents

• Course Scope Professor Biography ............................................................................i


• LECTURE LECTURE GUIDES


• The Historical Study of Christianity.....................................................


• LECTURE


• The First Cultural Context—Greece and Rome................................


• LECTURE


• The First Cultural Context—Judaism................................................


• LECTURE


• The Jesus Movement and the Birth of Christianity


• LECTURE


• Paul and Christianity’s First Expansion


• LECTURE


• The Diversity of Early Christianity.....................................................


• LECTURE


• The Unpopular Cult—Persecution


• LECTURE


• Forms of Witness—Martyrdom and Apologetic


• LECTURE


• Extreme Christianity in the 2nd and 3rd Centuries


• LECTURE


• The Shaping of Orthodoxy................................................................


• LECTURE iv


• Institutional Development before Constantine


• LECTURE


• The Beginnings of Christian Philosophy


• LECTURE


• Imperial Politics and Religion


• LECTURE


• Constantine and the Established Church


• LECTURE


• The Extension of Christian Culture


• LECTURE


• Monasticism as Radical Christianity


• LECTURE


• The Emergence of Patriarchal Centers


• LECTURE


• Theological Crisis and Council—The Trinity


• LECTURE


• Theological Crisis and Council—Christology..................................


• LECTURE


• The Distinctive Issues of the Latin West


• LECTURE


• Expansion beyond the Boundaries of Empire


• LECTURE


• The Court of Justinian and Byzantine Christianity


• LECTURE


• The Rise of Islam and the Threat of Iconoclasm


• LECTURE v


• Eastern Orthodoxy—Holy Tradition


• LECTURE


• From Roman Empire to Holy Roman Empire


• LECTURE


• Benedictine Monasticism and Its Influence


• LECTURE


• Evangelization of Western Europe


• LECTURE


• The Great Divorce between East and West


• LECTURE


• Monastic Reform


• LECTURE


• Cathedrals and Chapters................................................................


• LECTURE


• The Crusades


• LECTURE


• Papal Revolution


• LECTURE


• Universities and Theology


• LECTURE


• The Great Plague


• LECTURE


• Corruption and the Beginnings of Reform


• LECTURE


• The Ever-Adapting Religion............................................................