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HISTORY of CHRISTIANITY II February-April 2019: Reformed Theological Seminary, Atlanta ______Professor: Ken Stewart, Ph.D 1 HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY II February-April 2019: Reformed Theological Seminary, Atlanta ___________________________________________________ Professor: Ken Stewart, Ph.D. Email: [email protected] Phone: 706.419.1653 (w); 423.414.3752 (cell) Course number: 04HT504 Class Dates: Friday evening 7:00-9:00 pm and Saturday 8:30-5:30 p.m. February 1&2, March 1&2, March 29&30, April 26&27 Catalog Course Description: A continuation of HT502, concentrating on great leaders of the church in the modern period of church history from the Reformation to the nineteenth century. Course Objectives: To grasp the flow of Christian history in the western world since 1500 A.D., its interchange with the non-western world in light of transoceanic exploration and the challenges faced through the division of Christendom at the Reformation, the rise of Enlightenment ideas, the advance of secularization and the eventual challenge offered to the dominance of Europe. To gain the ability to speak and write insightfully regarding the interpretation of this history and the application of its lessons to modern Christianity Course Texts (3): Henry Bettenson & Chris Maunder, eds. Documents of the Christian Church 4th Edition, (Oxford, 2011) Be sure to obtain the 4th edition as documents will be identified by page no. Justo Gonzáles, The Story of Christianity Vol. II, 2nd edition (HarperOne, 2010) insist on 2nd ed. Kenneth J. Stewart, Ten Myths about Calvinism (InterVarsity, 2011) [Economical used editions of all titles are available from the following: amazon.com; abebooks.com; betterworldbooks.com; thriftbooks.com] The instructor also recommends (but does not require), Tim Dowley, ed. Atlas of the European Reformations (Minneapolis/London: Fortress Press/Lion, 2015) Course Requirements: Due: Book Review: A 1,000 word review of a biography or church- Review due 1 March historical work pertaining to the period 1500-1900. The instructor will provide fuller details as to what is expected. 15% of final score. Examinations (2): A mid-term exam on Fri. March 29 and a final Mid-term: 7pm Friday 29 exam a week beyond the final class meeting (which will be April March 27) Value: 25% for mid-term; 25% for final. Final exam will require Final must be taken by 6 that a proctor be designated near the student’s home location. May Essay: You will compose a 3,000 word essay which will investigate Essay due by 13 May (rather than simply narrate) a question or problem in Christian history since 1500. You will assemble a bibliography of 6-8 items, use the best sources available and properly document your quoted 2 material (Kate Turabian or the Chicago Manual of Style standards are preferred). Worth 25% of final score Participation: The instructor will gauge each student’s Document presentations preparedness (in light of assigned reading) and participation in the scattered through the course. class. This component will include each student’s in-class Sign-up sheet will circulate. introduction of a historical document, provided in Bettenson & Sign up early! Maunder. Worth: 10% of final score Schedule of Lectures and Readings Date/hour Topic Readings DCC = Documents of the Christian Church Fri. 1 Feb Course Intro: Gonzáles 1. 7-11 7pm Papal Schism, Conciliar DCC 143 ‘Sacrosancta’ and 121-122 ‘Unum Sanctum’ Movement, Rise of Nation States: Back-story of the Age of Reform 8pm i. The Print Revolution Gonzáles 1.12 - 18 ii. What was Christian DCC 102-106 ‘Donation of Constantine’ Humanism? Sat. 2 Feb Luther’s Early Life Up to Gonzáles 2. 19-29 8:30 am the posting of the 95 DCC 195-197 ‘Machinery of Indulgences’, 197-203, ’95 Theses Theses’ 9:30am Luther: From Leipzig to Gonzáles 2. 30-35 the Diet of Worms DCC 203-204 ‘Leipzig Disp’ 212-214 ‘Diet of Worms’ 10:30 am Luther hid in the Gonzáles 3. 37-46 Wartburg: troubles following 11:30 am Luther: Bible Translator Gonzáles 4. 47-56 and Theologian DCC 223-226 ‘Augsburg Confession’ 12:30 lunch 1:30pm Zurich and the Spread of Gonzáles 5.57-65 the Swiss Reform 2:30pm Reformation Dissent: Gonzáles 6. 67-76 Anabaptism 3:30pm John Calvin to 1541: Gonzáles 7.77-85 exiled from Geneva 4:30pm John Calvin ascendant: Gonzáles 7.85-86 1541-1564 DCC 226-228 ‘Institutes of Calvin’ Week Two Fri. 1 Mar Calvin and Calvinism: Stewart Ten Myths chap. 1 7pm Myth and Reality 8pm England’s Reform to 1559 Gonzáles 8.87-99 DCC 242-3 ‘Act of Supremacy’, 250-251 ‘Act of Supremacy’(version 2) 3 Sat. 2 Feb Scotland’s Reform to 1574 Gonzáles 8.99-104 8:30 am 9:30am The Holy Roman Empire Gonzáles 9.105-113 Strikes Back: Lost DCC 228-229 ‘Peace of Augsburg’ Protestant Territories 10:30 am The Dutch Revolt: for Gonzáles 10.115-123 Independence & for Protestantism 11:30 am France: From Oppression Gonzáles 11.125-134 to a Century of Toleration DCC 229-230 ‘Edict of Nantes’ 12:30 lunch 1:30pm Catholic Reformation, Gonzáles 12.135-149 Catholic Counter- DCC 261-264 ‘Policies of the Jesuits’ Reformation? Both? DCC 264-270 ‘Decrees of Trent’ 2:30pm The Reformation & Art: Stewart Ten Myths chap. 8 Uneasy Relation? 3:30pm The Reformation & Stewart Ten Myths chap. 5 Missions: a Fail? 4:30pm Protestants Who Were Gonzáles 18.193-209 Opposed : (1) Puritans DCC 255-256 ‘Archbishop Parker’s Advertisements’ DCC 258-259 ‘Act Against the Puritans’ DCC 318-320 ‘Conventicle Act’ Week Three Fri. 29 Mar. Mid-term exam 7pm 8pm Assemblies at Gonzáles 21.229-235; Stewart Ten Myths chap. 3 Westminster and at Dordt DCC 271-272 ‘Remonstrant (Arminian) Articles’ DCC 303-306 ‘Solemn League and Covenant’ Sat. 30 Mar. Protestants Who Were Gonzáles 17.185-191 8:30 am Opposed: (2) Huguenots 9:30am Protestants Who Were Gonzáles 24.259-273 Opposed: (3)Pietists 10:30 am A Changed European Gonzáles 22.237-248 Intellectual Climate DCC 330-333 ‘Deistic Controversy’ 11:30 am British America and the Gonzáles 25.275-290 Great Awakening 12:30 lunch 1:30pm The American Revolution Gonzáles 27. 319-326 and the Churches 2:30pm The French Revolution Gonzáles 28. 350-362 and the Churches 3:30pm Christianity and the Gonzáles 27. 326-328 American Frontier 4:30pm Industrial Revolution Gonzáles 26.301-306; 31.385-388 Stokes Neo-Colonialism 4 Week Four Fri. 26 April Developments in Eastern Gonzales 30. 373-383 7pm Christianity 8pm Colonialism and Missions: Gonzáles 33: 417-431 Not ‘Hand-in-Glove’ William Carey’s Inquiry into the Obligation of Christians, pages 7-13 (The perpetuity of the Great Commission) Sat. 27 April The French Revolution Gonzáles 29. 363-372 8:30 am and Latin America 9:30am Scientific Revolutions and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hutton Christianity: Rocks, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day-age_creationism Fossils & Bones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal 10:30 am The Papacy in a Gonzáles 32.399-408 Revolutionary Age DCC 274-275 ‘Immaculate Conception’ DCC 275-277 ‘Syllabus of Errors’ DCC 277 ‘Papal Infallibility’ 11:30 am The Gradual Revulsion Gonzáles 27.332-336 Against Slavery: France Stewart, Ten Myths chap. 10 first, followed by Britain, followed by America 12:30 lunch 1:30pm What Civil War Did to Gonzáles 27.336-347 America’s Churches 2:30pm The Darwinian Challenge Gonzáles 31.385-6 to Christian Doctrine 3:30pm The German Universities’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Augustus_Briggs Sway Over the Churches of the West. Fragmen- tation in American Christianity 4:30pm The Zenith of Colon- Gonzáles 33.421-431 ialism: America also joins the race A Select Bibliography for Christianity Since 1500 Please also consult the chapter-end bibliographies in Gonzáles vol. 2. Reference Works (if recent, invaluable for bibliography) Jerald Brauer, ed. Westminster Dictionary of Church History F.M. Cross and E.A. Livingston, ed. Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church J.D. Douglas, ed. New International Dictionary of the Christian Church Donald M. Lewis, ed. Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography Timothy Larsen, ed. Dictionary of Evangelical Biography Scott Moreau, ed. Evangelical Dictionary of World Mission SOURCE MATERIALS FOR THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY a. Reformation of the Church Roland Bainton, ed. The Age of the Reformation Gerald Bray, ed. Documents of the English Reformation 5 James Gairdner, ed. English Constitutional Documents Hans J. Hillerbrand, ed. The Reformation in Its Own Words (Many important documents) Dennis Janz, A Reformation Reader B.J. Kidd, ed. Documents of the Continental Reformation Clyde Manschreck, ed. A History of Christianity vol. 2 b. The Modern Church Edwin Gaustad, ed. A Documentary History of Religion in America Keith Hardman, ed. Christianity in America Smith, Handy, and Loetscher eds. American Christianity 2 vols. BIOGRAPHIES BY ERA a. Reformation Church i. Humanists Erasmus by Roland Bainton, Stefan Zweig, John W. O’Malley ii. Monks /Missionaries Loyola by J. Broderick; Francis Xavier by John Broderick ; Matteo Ricci by Michela Fontana, Jonathan Spence. iii. Catholic Reformers Lefevre D'Etaples by P.E. Hughes. Jimenéz de Cisneros by Erika Rummel. iv. Monarchs Elizabeth I by J.E. Neale, A.L. Rowse Henry VIII by A.F. Pollard, J.J.Scarisbrick, H.M. Smith; James VI & I by D.H. Willson, D. Matthew; Mary Queen of Scots by Ian B. Cowan, D. Hay Fleming v. Popes Histories of the Papacy by Eamon Duffy, John W. O’Malley vi. Protestant Reformers Martin Bucer by Hastings Eells, C. Hopf, Martin Gretillat; John Calvin by William Bousma, Jean Cadier, Alexandre Ganoczy, Alistair McGrath, T.H.L. Parker; Thomas Cranmer by Geoffrey Bromiley, Jasper Ridley, C.H. Smyth, Diarmaid MacCulloch; William Grindal by Patrick Collinson; John Knox by W.
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