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Click here for the full RGH1010
syllabus (PDF) for 2004/5. The materials contained
on this web-site complement the full syllabus.
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Description:
From the sub-apostolic age to the "Triumph of Orthodoxy"
in the East and the Carolingian revival and Treaty of Verdun in
the West. Geographical expansion of the church; the relation of
Christian faith to cultural settings and other religions; the development
of doctrinal and ethical positions; forms of Christian life and
worship; the rise of Islam. Lectures, tutorials, Short papers, essay.
Note: Please
consult the syllabus given to you in class for course requirements
& due dates. And, check back weekly for updates to the on-line
Lecture & Tutorial readings.
Course Texts &
Readings:
1. Hall, Stuart G. Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church.
Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1991.
2. The on-line readings listed below [Uploaded weekly].
3. Some photocopies [the small cost will be calculated towards the
end of the course].
On-line reference
materials:
1. General Assignment & Research
information.
2. Time-Line for Selected
Early Church Authors (PDF)
2. Researching Early Christian
History & Authors (PDF)
4. Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed
(A Comparison) (PDF)
1. Introduction:
-Methodology & Who Were the Early Christians?
- definition of terms; sources; background information.
2. The Apostolic
Church :
- Mission, Conversion, Church & State
- the spread of Gospel; Judaism; paganism; Didache, Clement of Rome,
Hermas, Ignatius.
Lecture
& Tutorial Readings
Optional: For some maps and additional
information, consult: "From
Jesus to Christ."
3. Apologists, Martyrs &
Systems of Cosmic Redemption
- State Persecution of Christians: Polycarp, Justin, Athenagoras,
Papias, Perpetua & Felicity; Irenaeus & Gnosticism; Montanism.
Lecture
& Tutorial Readings
Optional: Some images of the
catacombs in Rome.
Optional: A brief synopsis of Elaine Pagel's, The
Gnostic Gospels.
4. Early Western
Authors & North African Christianity
- Tertullian, Hippolytus, Cyprian, Sabellianism.
Lecture
& Tutorial Readings
5. The Early School
at Alexandria
- Pantaneus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Ps-Dionysius.
Lecture
& Tutorial Readings
AND Review this MAP
of the growth of Christianity (c.100-300AD).
Optional:
Other maps at Ancient World
Mapping Centre [see the section of free maps].
Optional: A resource for other on-line
writings in early Christianity.
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6. Early Christologies
& Councils (Nicea I - 325AD)
- Athanasius, Arius, Eusebius, Donatism, Church-State.
Lecture
& Tutorial Readings
LAST
WEEK TO HAND IN
REFLECTION PAPER #1
7. Cappadocians,
Spirit-Fighters & Constantinople 1 (381)
- Macrina the Younger, Basil the Great, Gregory Nazianzus, Gregory
of Nyssa.
Lecture
& Tutorial Readings
8. Syriac Christianity
& the Roots of Monasticism
- Bardaisan, Aphrahat, Ephraem, Pachomius, Anthony, Basil, Evagrius,
Syncletica.
Lecture & Tutorial Readings
9. East & West
in the Fourth Century
- Ambrose, Augustine, Hilary of Poitiers, Jerome, Vincent of Lérins,
John Chrysostom.
Lecture & Tutorial Readings
10. The Theotokos
& Ephesus (431), Chalcedon & Classical Christological Doctrine
- Theodore of Mopseustia, Cyril of Alexandria, Nestorius, Leo,
Eutyches, Assyrian & Oriental Orthodox Churches.
Lecture & Tutorial Readings
11. Christological
Disputes Continue & Invasions in the East & the West (6th-7th
centuries)
- monotheletism; invasions in the West; Islam in the East; Gregory
the Great; Justinian I.
Lecture & Tutorial Readings
12. Iconoclastic
Crisis in the East & a New Emperor in the West (to 843AD)
- Charlemagne; iconoclasm & Nicea II; John Damascus; Theodore
the Studite; Theodore Abu Qurrah; early missions to the Slavs. Conclusion/summary
of course.
Lecture & Tutorial Readings
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