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)
1.4 – Read Oscar Cullman Quote
ASSIGNMENT:
- Read the following quotations.
- Write a short essay or discuss with your instructor the following question: How do these quotes demonstrate the purpose and value of studying history?
SELECTION: Quotation by Oscar Cullman.
“If we consider the Christian faith from the point of view of time we should say that the scandal of the Christian faith is to believe that these few years, which, for secular history, have no more, and no less, significance than other periods, are the center and norm of the totality of time. But the New Testament claims no less than this: ‘When all things began, the Word already was, but the Word became flesh, he came to dwell among us and we saw his glory, such glory as befits the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.'”
SELECTION: Quotation by John Briggs.
“The Christian faith does not have to contort itself to embrace the hard facts of history. It admits that the tragedy of history cannot be avoided, but claims that there is power that redeems tragedy.”
SELECTION: Quotation by Cicero.
“Not to know what took place before you were born is to remain forever a child.”
SELECTION: Quotation by Aldous Huxley.
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”
SELECTION: Quotation by T. S. Eliot.
“Even now in sordid particulars the eternal design may appear.”