Foundation course

Church History

From the apostles to today.

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About the course

• Author: Dr. Wayne Cook
• Languages: English, Spanish, and French.
• Units: 10
• Counts toward: Certificate of Ministry; Associate of Divinity; Master of Theology (Th.M.); Master of Divinity (M.Div.). These are internal ministry recognitions, not official degrees.
• Textbook: Hurst, Short History of the Christian Church (assigned excerpts)
• Required readings: Church History: Required Readings

Units

1. 1. Why Church History?
2. 2. Apostolic Fathers, Persecutions, & Apologists
3. 3. Heresies, Councils, and Imperial Christianity
4. 4. Augustine, Monasticism, and the Fall of Rome
5. 5. Medieval Christianity
6. 6. Late Medieval Crisis and the Forerunners
7. 7. The Reformation
8. 8. Post-Reformation, Puritanism, Pietism, and the First Great Awakening
9. 9. The Missionary Century and the Pulpit Princes
10. 10. The Twentieth Century to Today