School Notes
Date posted: 听 Jan 22, 2025
History of the Church I: The Beginnings through Medieval Period
Fee: $60 | Five Weeks
Church history tells the stories that are woven into the fiber of the Church as people of God and as institution.听 The Church's beliefs, practices, and relationships have been formed by believers of every generation as they endeavored to live lives of faith in their own time and place.
In this course we explore the people and events that shaped culture and society as well as the Church across the centuries. 听We look at both the epoch forming events as well as the people behind them.
Also see History of the Church II: The Reformation to Vatican II
This course has a required text: 听Kevin L Hughes, Church History: Faith Handed On. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2002. () ()
Topics
Week 1:听 Why Study Church History?听听
Week 2: In the Beginning
Week 3:听Establishing Faith in the Context of Culture
Week 4: Faith through the Early and High Middle Ages
Week 5: Faith in the Late Middle Ages
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Catherine M. Mooney, Ph.D. (video)听Associate Professor of Church History听at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry.