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History 4: Christendom

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  1. 1. Orientation
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  2. 2. Eternity in Operation: The Roman Principate and the New Testament Church
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  3. 3. Imperium sine Fine: The Successions of Rome, Judea, and the Apostolic Church
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  4. 4. The World That Died in the Night: Christianity, the Church Fathers, and the Transformation of Culture
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  5. 5. A Creed and Still a Gospel: Constantine, Nicea and Athanasius
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  6. 6. Centripetal & Centrifugal Forces: The Barbarians, the Church and the Fall of Rome
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  7. 7. Only the Lover Sings: Augustine of Hippo
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  8. 8. The Long Defeat: Byzantium
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  9. 9. There is No God But Allah: Islam
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  10. 10. How the Celts Saved Civilization: Christianity in Ireland and Britain
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  11. 11. The Holy Roman Empire: Benedict & Monasticism, Gregory the Great & Worship, Charlemagne & Education
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  12. 12. The Ballad of the White Horse: The Norse and Alfred the Great
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  13. 13. Medieval Covenants: Feudalism and the Norman Conquest
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  14. 14. Deus Vult: The First Crusade
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  15. 15. Outremer: Crusader Kingdoms and Later Crusades
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  16. 16. The Music of the Spheres: Medieval Art, Towns, Cathedrals and Monks
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  17. 17. Wonder & Delight: Medieval Education, the Scholastics and Dante
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  18. 18. Just Rule and a Braveheart: Plantagenets, Common Law and the Scots
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  19. 19. The Fracturing of Christendom I: Invasions, Wars and Plagues
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  20. 20. The Fracturing of Christendom II: The End of the Middle Ages
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  21. 21. Man the Measure I: The Renaissance
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  22. 22. Man the Measure II: The Renaissance
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  23. 23. The Morning Stars of the Reformation: Wycliffe to Erasmus
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  24. 24. Justification by Faith: The Great Reformation
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  25. 25. Towards a Proper End: Reformations and Counter-Reformations
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  26. 26. Lex Rex: The English Civil War and the Scots
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ASSIGNMENT:

  1. Read the following quotations about education.
  2. Write a short essay or discuss with your instructor the following question: How do these quotes show the purpose and value of learning?

SELECTION: Quotation by Arthur Quiller-Couch.

“There is such a thing in the world as a love of learning…the very best things in the world do not pay—for the simple reason that they are priceless.”

SELECTION: Quotation by Francis Bacon.

“Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, wise men use them.”

SELECTION: Quotation by Socrates.

“The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.”

SELECTION: Quotation by Stratford Caldecott.

“[Education] is about how we become more human (and therefore more free, in the truest sense of the word).”

SELECTION: Quotation by John Buchan.

“Our greatest inheritance, the very foundation of our civilization, is a marvel to behold and consider. If I tried to describe its rich legacy with utmost brevity, I should use the Latin word humanitas. It represents in the widest sense, the accumulated harvest of the ages, the fine flower of a long discipline of Christian thought…Indeed, this sort of educational philosophy and methodology is that which steadfastly affirms that every student, every family, every community, and every nation needs to be grounded in the good things, the great things, the true things in order to do the right things.”

SELECTION: Quotation by G. K. Chesterton.

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”