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Date posted: 听 Feb 19, 2025
History of the Church II: The Reformation to Vatican II
Fee: $60 | Five Weeks
From the Great Papal Schism and the Reformation to Vatican Council II and its significance in history, this course explores the events, people, and themes that shaped the Church from the 1300s to the 1960s.
In what ways was the church shaped by the political and socio-cultural dynamics of these times? How did the Church respond to the reformations and revolutions that shaped this era? And what does this say to us about our faith and our relationship to the Church today? These questions are at the heart of the conversation for this course.
Also see History of the Church I: The Beginnings through Medieval Period
This course has a required text: Kevin L Hughes, Church History: Faith Handed On. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2002. () ()
Topics
Week 1: Putting Church History in Context
Week 2: The Church Divided
Week 3: Expressing Faith in the New World
Week 4: Faith in Times of Change
Week 5: Faith in the Third Millennium
Content Scholars:听Kevin L. Hughes, Ph.D. (book) Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Villanova University; Francine Cardman, Ph.D. (video) Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry;听Richard Lennan, Dr. Theol.听(video) Professor of Systematic Theology at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry;听Catherine M. Mooney, Ph.D. (video) Associate Professor of Church History at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry;听Jeffrey P. von Arx, S.J.听(video) Former President of Fairfield University, Visiting Professor of the History of Christianity at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry