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Mcgill University McGill University Faculty of Religious Studies RELG 323 CHURCH AND STATE SINCE 1300 A survey of major developments in the history of the doctrine and institutions of the Church, and the relation of the Church to the Commonwealth, from the later Middle Ages to the present. Birks Building, Room 105 Tuesdays/Thursdays 1:00—2:30 pm Professor: Torrance Kirby Office Hours: Birks 206, Tuesdays/Thursdays, 9:30—10:30 am Email: [email protected] COURSE SYLLABUS—WINTER TERM 2021 Date Reading 5 January INTRODUCTION I. LATE-MEDIEVAL CHURCH AND RENAISSANCE 7 January IMPERIAL SUPREMACY Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam (1302) Marsilius of Padua, Defensor Pacis (1324) 12 January MYSTICAL SPIRITUALITY Julian of Norwich, Shewings of Divine Love (1393) 14 January ECCLESIASTICAL HIERARCHY Nicholas of Cusa, The Catholic Concordance (1433) 19 January NEOPLATONIC MYSTICISM Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486) 21 January RENAISSANCE HUMANISM Nicollò Machiavelli, An Exhortation to Penitence (1495) II. REFORMATION 26 January JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE Martin Luther, Two Kinds of Righteousness (1520) 28 January A SEPARATE CHURCH Michael Sattler, Schleitheim Articles (1527) 2 February CHRISTIAN LIBERTY John Calvin, On the Necessity of Reforming the Church (1543) 4 February COUNTER REFORMATION Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (1548) Teresa of Ávila, The Way of Perfection (1573) Confirm Mid-Term Essay Topics Please consult style sheet, essay-writing guidelines, and evaluation rubric. 9 February RIGHT OF RESISTANCE Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, A Defence of Liberty against tyrants (1579) 11 February ERASTIANISM Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie (1593) RELG 323 CHURCH AND STATE SINCE 1300 2 Date Reading III. ENLIGHTENMENT AND RENEWAL 16 February THE CHURCH IN NEW FRANCE Paul Le Jeune, SJ, Jesuit Relations (1634) 18 February MORALISM Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercise of Holy Living (1650) 23 February PIETISM Philip Jacob Spener, Pia Desideria (1675) Mid-term Essays (1500-2000 words) due at beginning of class. Essay Conferences to be scheduled for week of 1 March. 25 February TOLERATION John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) 27 Feb—7 March MID-TERM READING BREAK 9 March GREAT AWAKENING Jonathan Edwards, Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Works of God (1737) Mid-Term Examination IV. REVOLUTION AND REACTION 11 March PUBLIC RELIGION Edmund Burke, Speech on the Acts of Uniformity (1772) Speech on a Bill for the Relief of Protestant Dissenters (1773) Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians (1792) Essay Conferences begin, Birks Building, Rm. 206 16 March CATHOLIC REVIVAL John Henry Newman, The Catholic Church (1833) The Triple Function of the Church (1841) 18 March RELIGION AND THE REPUBLIC Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835) 23 March EXISTENTIAL REVOLT Søren Kierkegaard, Against Christendom (1855) Confirm Research Essay Topics 25 March TRIUMPHALIST REACTION Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors (1864) Decree on Papal Infallibility of the First Vatican Council (1870) V. CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIANITY 30 March LIBERAL PROTESTANTISM Max Weber, Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism (1906) 1 April THE CONFESSING CHURCH The Barmen Declaration (1934) Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship (1937) 6 April CHRISTIANITY AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE Harvey Cox, The Secular City (1965) 8 April THE FEMINIST CRITIQUE Rosemary Radford Ruether, Sexism and God-Talk (1983) 13 April POST-LIBERAL RETROSPECTIVE Ingolf Dalferth, Theology in the Age of Cafeteria Religion (2000) Term Research Essays (2500-3000 words) due at beginning of class. RELG 323 CHURCH AND STATE SINCE 1300 3 EVALUATION Preparation of assigned texts and participation in seminar discussion 30% Mid-term Essay 15% Mid-term Examination 10% Term Research Essay 20% Final Examination 25% Absence Policy: maximum of three un-excused absences permitted Resolution passed by the McGill Senate, 29 January 2003: “McGill University values academic integrity. Therefore all students must understand the meaning and consequences of cheating, plagiarism, and other academic offences under the Code of Student Conduct and Disciplinary Procedures (see http://www.mcgill.ca/integrity for more information).” In accord with McGill University’s Charter of Students’ Rights, students in this course have the right to submit in English or in French any written work that is to be graded. ANCILLIARY READINGS Justo Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity. vol. 1 The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation and vol. 2 The Reformation to the Present Day. San Francisco : Harper Collins, 1984,1985. I. THE LATE-MEDIEVAL CHURCH AND RENAISSANCE 7 January IMPERIAL SUPREMACY Vol. 1, Chap. 32, pp. 324-341 12 January MYSTICAL SPIRITUALITY Chap. 33, pp. 356-359 14 January ECCLESIASTICAL HIERARCHY Chap. 33, pp. 342-353 19/21 January RENAISSANCE HUMANISM Vol. 2, Chap. 8, pp. 70-85 II. REFORMATION 26 January JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH ALONE Chaps. 1, 2 & 3, pp. 6-37 28 January A SEPARATE CHURCH Chaps. 4 & 6, pp. 38-45, 53-58 2 February CHRISTIAN LIBERTY Chap. 7, pp. 61-69. 4 February COUNTER REFORMATION Chap. 12, pp. 110-121 9 February RIGHT OF RESISTANCE Chap. 11, pp. 102-109 11 February ERASTIANISM Chap. 17, pp. 149-163 III. ENLIGHTENMENT AND RENEWAL 18 February MORALISM Chap. 20, pp. 179-184 23 February PIETISM Chap. 23, pp. 205-209 25 February TOLERATION Chap. 21, pp. 190-195 RELG 323 CHURCH AND STATE SINCE 1300 4 27 Feb—7 March MID-TERM READING BREAK 9 March THE GREAT AWAKENING Chap. 24, 217-230 IV. REVOLUTION AND REACTION 11 March PUBLIC RELIGION Chap. 26, 262-270 16 March CATHOLIC REVIVAL Chap. 26, 271-27 28 March RELIGION AND THE REPUBLIC Chap. 25, 238-261 23 March EXISTENTIAL REVOLT Chap. 28, pp. 282-293 25 March TRIUMPHALIST REACTION Chap. 29, 294-302 V. CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIANITY 30 March LIBERAL PROTESTANTISM Chap. 34, pp.360-364 1 April THE CONFESSING CHURCH Chap. 34, 364-371 6 April CHRISTIANITY AND CONTEMPORARY CULTURE Chap. 35, pp. 372-384 8 April THE FEMINIST CRITIQUE Chap. 35, pp. 384-387 ONLINE SOURCES Christian Classics Ethereal Library: www.ccel.wheaton.edu/ Internet Medieval Sourcebook, Paul Halsall, ed. www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html Modern History Sourcebook, Paul Halsall, ed. www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook1.html ORB: The On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies. www.orb.rhodes.edu/ Reformation Guide: www.educ.msu.edu/homepages/laurence/reformation/index.html BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY TEXTS INCLUDED IN THE SOURCBOOK 1. Marsilius of Padua, Defensor Pacis. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/marsiglio1.html 2. Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/b9-unam.html 3. Dame Julian of Norwich, The Shewings of Divine Love. David Lyle Jeffrey, translator and editor. The Law of Love: English Spirituality in the Age of Wyclif. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 1988. 4. Nicholas of Cusa, The Catholic Concordance. Edited and transl. by Paul E. Sigmund. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. 5. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man. Translated by Charles Glenn Wallis. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub., 1998. 6. Martin Luther, Two Kinds of Righteousness. Timothy F. Lull, editor. Martin Luther’s Basic Theological Writings. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989. RELG 323 CHURCH AND STATE SINCE 1300 5 7. Michael Sattler, Schleitheim Articles. http://www.anabaptists.org/history/schleith.html 8. John Calvin, On the Necessity of Reforming the Church. The necessity of reforming the church presented to the Imperial Diet at Spires, AD 1544. Transl. Henry Beveridge. London: W.H. Dalton; Edinburgh: Edinburgh Printing, 1843. 9. Phillippe Duplessis-Mornay or Hubert Languet, Vindiciae contra tyrannos. Vindiciae contra tyrannos: a defence of liberty against tyrants. Or, of the lawful power of the prince over the people, and of the people over the prince. London: Richard Baldwin, 1689. http://www.constitution.org/vct/vindiciae.htm 10. Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises. http://www.ccel.org/pager.cgi?file=i/ignatius/exercises 11. Teresa of Ávila, Conceptions of the Love of God. The Complete Works of Saint Teresa of Jesus. Translated and edited by E. Alison Peers; from critical edn. of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa. London: Sheed and Ward, 1946. 12. Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie. The works of that learned and judicious divine, Mr. Richard Hooker; with an account of his life and death by Isaac Walton. Ed. John Keble. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888. 13. Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercise of Holy Living. http://www.ccel.org/t/taylor/holy_living/holy_living.htm. 14. Philip Jacob Spener, Pia Desideria. Peter C. Erb, editor. Pietists: Selected Writings. New York: Paulist Press, 1983. 15. John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1983. 16. Jonathan Edwards, A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Works of God. Clarence H. Faust and Thomas H. Johnson, editors. Jonathan Edwards: Representative Selections. New York: Hill and Wang, 1962. 17. John Wesley, The Character of a Methodist and Advice to a People called Methodist. http://gbgm-umc.org/umhistory/wesley/charmeth.html http://gbgm-umc.org/umhistory/wesley/advice.html 18. Edmund Burke, Speeches. Robert A. Smith (ed.), Edmund Burke on Revolution. New York: Harper and Row, 1968. 19. John Henry Newman, The Catholic Church and The Triple Function of the Church. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/tract02.html http://www.lebertynet.org/tunewman/Prose/media.html 20. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America. Translated by Henry Reeve. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hper/detoc/toc_indx.html 21. Søren Kierkegaard, Attack upon Christendom. Translated Walter Lowrie. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968. 22. First Vatican Council: Decree on Papal Infallibility. Norman Tanner, editor. Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils. London: Sheed & Ward; Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1990. http://abbey.apana.org.au/councils/ecum20.htm 23. Pope Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors. RELG 323 CHURCH AND STATE SINCE 1300 6 http://listserv.american.edu/catholic/church/papal/pius.ix/p9syll.html 24.
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