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Wyclif Lecture of May
1. Date : May 4-7, 2015 (08:30-17:00)
2. Place : Hallelujah Church
3. Instructor : Dr. Soo Chan Kim, Ph.D. (Pastor Israkul)
4. Subject : The History of Christianity
The History of Christianity
(Lecture Notes on Church History)
Prof.: Dr. Soochan Kim (Ph.D)
Contents
session Topics of Course page
1 Part I: Introduction to Church History 5
2 1. Why study Church History? 5
2 2. What is the Church? 5
3 3. Who built the church on earth? (Matthew 16:16-19) 5
4 4. What is the church for? 6
5 Part 2: The Biblical Continuity and Discontinuity between the Israel and the Church 7
6 1. Theological Interpretation of Genesis Chapter 1-11 7
7 2. The Abrahamic Covenant (Gen. Ch. 12) 9
8 3. God's Plan (Gen. 1-2) 10
9 4. Israel, the Covenant People 11
10 5. Israel's Response 16
11 6. Messengers for All Peoples (Book of Acts) 18
12 Part III: The Roots of Christianity 24
13 1.THE OLD TESTAMENT : THE STORY OF ISRAEL 24
14 2.A NEW JUDAISM 27
15 3. BETWEEN THE OLD & THE NEW TESTAMENTS 28
16 4.THE RISE AND POWER OF ROME 30
17 5. The Infant Church 30
18 Part IV: The Patristic Period (From the Day of Pentecost to the Fall of Rome) 35
19 1. The Expanding Church 35
20 2. Imperial Persecution (A.D. 65-68) 36
21 3. The Rise of Heresies and its influence on the church 38
22 4. Formation of New Testament, Growth of Ecclesiastical Organization 40
23 5. The Victory of Christianity (313-476) 42
24 6. The Rise of Monasticism 44
25 7. Great Leaders of the Early Church 46
26 8. Trinitarian Controversy and the Council of Nicaea 51
27 Part V: The Medieval Church and the Renaissance 53
28 1.The Fall of Rome 53
29 2. Benedictine Monasticism 57
30 3. The Papacy 59
31 4.The Rise of Islam 61
32 5. Movements of Renewal 62
33 6. The Crusades (The Offensive against Islam) 66
34 7. The Golden Age of Medieval Christianity 68
35 8. The Collapse of the Medieval Church 70
36 9. In Quest of Reformation 74
37 10. Forerunners of the Reformation: John Wycliffe and John Huss 75
38 Part VI: The Reformation and Post-Reformation Periods, 1500-1750 77
39 1. The Call for Reformation 77
40 2. Martin Luther (Pilgrimage to Reformation) 78
41 3. Zwingli¡¯s Pilgrimage 85
42 4. The Anabaptist Movement (The Radical Reformation.) 87
43 5. Calvin (His life and works) 90
44 6. The Spread of Calvinism 92
45 7. ARMINIANISM & PIETISM 93
46 8. The Reformation in Great Britain 94
47 9. The Catholic Reformation 99
48 10. The Close of the Reformation 102
49 Part VII: Modern Periods: Orthodoxy, Rationalism, and Pietism 104
50 1. An Age of Dogma and Doubt 104
51 2. Catholic Orthodoxy 105
52 3. The Rationalist Option 106
53 4. The Pietists Option (German Pietism: Spener and Francke) 107
54 5. The Spiritualist Option 110
55 6. The First Great Awakening in America 112
56 7. Mission & Revolution (1776-1914) 113
57 8. The Nineteenth Century. 116
58 (1) New Movements in Protestantism 116
59 (2) A New Ear for Missions 117
60 (3) American Christianity 117
61 (4) Christianity in Industrial Society 119
62 (5) World Evangelization 120
63 (6) Fortress Rome 123
64 9. The Twentieth Century 125
65 (1) Facing the New Century 125
66 (2) The Global Church (1914-1999) 126
67 (3) The Orthodox Church in Communist Russia 128
68 (4) The West Between The Wars 128
69 (5) World War II & After 129
70 (6) Developing Churches. 130
71 (7) Ecumenical Movements 131
72 (8) Changing Catholicism 132
73 The New Evangelicals 133
74 (10) The Pentecostal Movement 134
75 (11) World Christianity 135
Course Description.
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This course presents a broad panorama of church history from the apostolic age to the present, highlighting key people, events and issues, as well as illustrating and assessing our Christian heritage and its transformative impact on the doctrine, spiritual life, and mission of the church.
¡®The socio-theological perspective¡¯ will be adopted as a useful methodology in order to deal with the church history because Christian church influences society within its context and at the same time the church and its theology are also continually influenced by contemporary social factors and developed accordingly but sometimes also distorted.
Course Objective.
To trace the history of the church from Pentecost to the present.
To appreciate the evangelical heritage throughout the history of the church and how it impacted church and society for biblical transformation.
To describe the emergence of the major branches of Christianity that exist in the present day and apply the contribution of each to the doctrine, mission, and spiritual life of the church in general and the Asian church in particular.
Course Requirements and Grading.
Reading Report: The assigned reading is listed in the course outline. Each assignment needs to be completed before the class session to enable the student to participate in and benefit from the class discussions. The student is required to complete 3 pages, type-written summary of the reading on the day it is assigned. (20%)
Four Quizzes: one each at the end of the four main areas of the course, i.e., Early Church, Medieval Church, Reformation Church and Modern Church. Quiz will be essay format, with the option of answering 3-5 questions. (10%¡¿4=40%)
Research Project: 8-10 pages, footnoted, doubled-spaced, on an influential historical event or figure mentioned in the course that has particular relevance to a contemporary doctrinal, ecclesiastical, social or spiritual issue. The paper is to consist of a short background/summary of the historical person¡¯s life, but should mainly focus on the relevance and significance of that historical person, any application or lessons for today - ministry, church, personal life, missions, church planting etc. (40% of marks in the final assessment)
Bibliography (Recommended References)
Church History Lecture Notes (available at ATS)
Jones, Timothy Paul. Christian History Made Easy. California: Rose Publishing, 2005.
Hurlbut. Jesse Lyman. The Story of the Christian Church. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan,
1970.
Gonzalez, Justo L. The Story of Christianity Vol. I, II. San Franciso: Harper, 1984.
Michael Collins & Matthew A. Price. The Story of Christianity. New York, DK. 2003.
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