HISTORY: THE CHURCH, AND MISSIONS

NOTE: Some Directed Study is involved with each of these courses..

HCM 501 EARLY CHURCH HISTORY TO 451 A.D.

Three hours

This course offers a study of church history during the Apostolic Age; early church Fathers; Apologists; persecutions; Montanists; School of Alexandria; Donatist Schism; Arianism and the Council of Nicea; Christological Controversies; the development of Monasticism; Augustine; Leo and the Council of Chalcedon.

HCM 502 CHURCH HISTORY: THE MIDDLE AGES, 1200-1500.

Three hours

This course offers a survey of later Crusades; Monastic Reformation; Gregorian Reform; the Fourth Lateran Council; the Franciscans and Dominicans; the Conciliar Movement; Protest Movements - Waldensians and Albigensians.

HCM 503 A SURVEY OF THE HISTORY OF MISSIONS

Three hours

This is an historical survey of missionary and evangelistic work on home and foreign fields. It considers the establishment and development of world missions from Pentecost to the present.

HCM 504 CHURCH HISTORY: THE REFORMATION

Three hours

This course surveys the Precursors of the Reformation - Wycliffe, Huss, Savanarola; the Renaissance; the influence of Erasmus; the Reformation in Germany - Luther; the Swiss Reformation - Zwingli and Calvin; the Anabaptists; relations between England and Papacy - Henry VIII to Mary; the Elizabethan Settlement; Reformation in Scotland; the Counter-Reformation.

HCM 505 CHURCH HISTORY: MODERN

Three hours

This studies Christianity in England, 1790-1830; the Wesleyan Revival: the Oxford Movement; the Modern Missionary Movement; Christian Socialists; the Great Awakening in America; Science and Christian Belief; English Free Churches, Catholic Modernism; the Ecumenical Movement.

HCM 506 CHURCH HISTORY SURVEY

Three hours

This course surveys Church History from the times of the Acts to the present. The relevance to the 20th century church is assessed, with practical applications.

HCM 530 DIRECTED STUDY

Three hours

NOTE: Concerning Church History subsequent to Chalcedon 451 A.D:
The period leading to the P.I.U. course on the Middle Ages (HCM 502) is too wide to be covered in one course in the required detail. Relevant topics would include the evangelization of England through Augustine in 596 A.D. and Aidan in the same decade; the Synod of Whitby and theological issues connected with it; the period of Monastic reform through the Cluniacs; and the divisions between the Eastern and Western churches. These may be undertaken as separate projects under DIRECTED STUDY.