RELG 2000 - History of Early Christianity

Hours: 3
The rise and expansion of Christianity from the beginning of the second century to the Reformation, and the institutional and the intellectual history of the Christian Church during those centuries. Institutional history involves questions such as: When and how did the Papacy first appear? What events precipitated the Protestant Reformation? Intellectual history focuses on the important theological ideas one finds in early Christianity such as: How did early Christian thinkers understand the nature of the soul, the imperfection of the physical world, and human sinfulness? The lives and thought of important Christian theologians.

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RELG 2000 - History of Early Christianity