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History: Christendom
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1. Orientation10 Steps
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1.1 – Introduction & How to Take Notes (16 min video)
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1.1 – Read Table of Contents
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1.2 – The Meaning of Life (17 min video)
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1.2 – Read Alexis de Tocqueville Quote
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1.3 – Why School? (16 min video)
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1.3 – Read Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Quote
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1.4 – Why History? (15 min video)
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1.4 – Read Oscar Cullman Quote
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1.5 – Portfolio and Family Tree Project (13 min video)
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1.5 – Lesson 1 Exam
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1.1 – Introduction & How to Take Notes (16 min video)
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2. Eternity in Operation: The Roman Principate and the New Testament Church11 Steps
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2.1 – Tiberius & Pentecost (29 min video)
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2.1 – Read Acts 1-2
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2.2 – Caligula and the Early Church (27 min video)
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2.2 – Read Acts 6-7
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2.3 – Claudius, James & Paul (24 min video)
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2.3 – Read Selections from Acts
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2.4 – The Missions of Paul (22 min video)
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2.4 – Read Philippians
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2.5 – Nero and the 12 Apostles (22 min video)
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2.5 – Lesson 2 Portfolio
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2.5 – Lesson 2 Exam
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2.1 – Tiberius & Pentecost (29 min video)
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3. Imperium sine Fine: The Successions of Rome, Judea, and the Apostolic Church11 Steps
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3.1 – Vespasian, Titus and the Destruction of Jerusalem (29 min video)
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3.1 – Read The Sack of Jerusalem
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3.2 – Epicurean Rome (25 min video)
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3.2 – Read Juvenal
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3.3 – Roman Persecution and the Apostolic Fathers (31 min video)
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3.3 – Read The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians
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3.4 – The New Testament Canon (16 min video)
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3.4 – Read The Belgic Confession and Scripture
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3.5 – Early Christian Worship and Art (24 min video)
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3.5 – Lesson 3 Portfolio
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3.5 – Lesson 3 Exam
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3.1 – Vespasian, Titus and the Destruction of Jerusalem (29 min video)
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4. The World That Died in the Night: Christianity, the Church Fathers, and the Transformation of Culture11 Steps
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4.1 – The Spread of Christianity (29 min video)
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4.1 – Read The Didache
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4.2 – The Effects of Christianity on Culture (25 min video)
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4.2 – Read W.E.H. Lecky
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4.3 – The Sanctity of Life, Marcus Aurelius and Justin Martyr (25 min video)
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4.3 – Read Justin Martyr
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4.4 – Persecutions, the Gnostics and Irenaeus of Lyon (23 min video)
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4.4 – Read The Diary of Perpetua
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4.5 – The Five Patriarchates, Origen and Tertullian (17 min video)
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4.5 – Lesson 4 Portfolio
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4.5 – Lesson 4 Exam
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4.1 – The Spread of Christianity (29 min video)
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1.2 – Read Alexis de Tocqueville Quote
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ASSIGNMENT:
- Read the following quote by Alexis de Tocqueville.
- Write a short essay or discuss with your instructor the following question: Why do religious nations, especially Christian nations, leave such lasting results or a legacy for generations to come?
SELECTION: Quotation by Alexis de Tocqueville.
“In ages of faith, the final end of life is placed beyond life. The men of those ages, therefore, naturally and almost involuntarily accustom themselves to fix their gaze for many years on some immovable object toward which they are constantly tending; and they learn by insensible degrees to repress a multitude of petty passing desires in order to be the better able to content that great and lasting desire which possesses them…This explains why religious nations have often achieved such lasting results; for whilst they were thinking only of the other world, they had found out the great secret of success in this.”