Christ the Vine |
1. JESUS and the HELLENISTIC WORLD [1 hr.] [1.1] The General Situation; [1.2] The Jewish Background; [1.3] Jesus and the Disciples; 2. THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH [1 hr.] [2.1] The Palestinian Christian Communities; [2.2] Paul and Gentile Christianity; [2.3] The Close of the Apostolic Age; [2.4] The Interpretation of Jesus |
3. GENTILE CHURCH and ROMAN EMPIRE [2 hrs.]
[3.1] Gentile Christianity of the Second Century; [3.2] Early Clerical Orders; [3.3] Relations of Christianity to the Roman Government; [3.4] The Apologists
4. THE GNOSTIC CRISIS [2 hrs.]
[4.1] Gnosticism; [4.2] Marcion; [4.3] Montanism; [4.4] The Catholic Church; [4.5] The Growing Importance of Rome; [4.6] Irenæus
5. CARTHAGE and ALEXANDRIA [3 hrs.]
[5.1] Tertullian and Cyprian; [5.2] The Triumph of the Logos Christology in the West; [5.3] The Alexandrian School (Clement and Origen); [5.4] Church And State from 180 To 260
6. LEADERSHIP and LITURGY [2 hrs.]
[6.1] The Hierarchical Development Of The Church; [6.2] Public Worship And Sacred Seasons; [6.3] Baptism; [6.4] The Eucharist; [6.5] Forgiveness Of Sins; [6.6] Sinners in the Church
7. PERSECUTION and TRANSFORMATION [1 hr.]
[7.1] Rest And Growth, 260-303; [7.2] Rival Religious Forces; [7.3] The Final Struggle; [7.4] The Changed Situation
8. THE ARIAN EMPIRE [2 hrs.]
[8.1] The Arian Controversy To The Death Of Constantine; [8.2] Controversy Under Constantine's Sons; [8.3] The Later Nicene Struggle;
9. THE ORTHODOX EMPIRE [1 hr.]
[9.1] Arian Missions and the Germanic Invasions; [9.2] The Growth of the Papacy; [9.3] Ambrose And Chrysostom.
10. CHRISTIAN MONASTICISM [2 hrs.]
[10.1] The Ascetic Movement; [10.2] Egyptian, Byzantine, and Palestinian Monasticism; [10.3] Evagrius, Cassian, and Benedict.
11. CHRISTOLOGY and DIVISIONS [2 hrs.]
[11.1] The Christological Controversies; [11.2] The East Divided; [11.3] Catastrophes And Further Controversies In The East.
12. WORSHIP and PIETY [1 hr.]
[12.1] Developing Hierarchies; [12.2] Public Worship And Sacred Seasons; [12.3] Developing Eucharistic Liturgy; [12.4] The Liturgy of the Hours; [12.5] Popular Christian Piety
13. WESTERN THEOLOGY and ISOLATION [2 hrs.]
[13.1] Some Western Characteristics; [13.2] Jerome; [13.3] Augustine; [13.4] The Pelagian Controversy; [13.5] Semi-Pelagianism; [13.6] Gregory the Great
14. BYZANTIUM and the RISE of ISLAM [2 hrs.]
[14.1] Justinian [14.2]; The Lombards; [14.3] The Rise of Islam; [14.4]The Constitutional Development of the Church;
15. MONASTIC MISSION and the TRANSMISSION of LEARNING [2 hrs.]
[15.1] Missions in the British Islands; [15.2] Continental Missions and Papal Growth; [15.3] The Transmission of Learning
16. THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE [2 hrs.]
[16.1] The Franks and The Papacy; [16.2.] Charlemagne; [16.3] Ecclesiastical Institutions; [16.4.] Collapsing Empire and Rising Papacy
17. INVASION, DECAY, and REFORM [2 hrs.]
[17.1] Viking Invasions; [17.2] Papal Decline and Renewal by the Revived Empire; [17.3] Reform Movements; [17.4] The Reform Party Secures the Papacy
18. MEDIEVAL CHURCH and STATE in CONFLICT [2 hrs.]
[18.1] The Papacy Breaks With the Empire; [18.2] Hildebrand and Henry IV; [18.3] The Struggle Ends in Compromise
19. EXPANSION and CONFLICT [1 hr.]
[19.1] The Greek Church after the Iconoclastic Controversy; [19.2] The Spread of the Church
20. NEW MOVEMENTS and SECTS [2 hrs.]
[20.1] The Crusades; [20.2] New Religious Movements; [20.3] Heretical Sects. Cathari and Waldenses. The Inquisition
21. FRIARS and LEARNING [2 hrs.]
[21.1] The Dominicans And Franciscans; [21.2] Early Scholasticism; [21.3] The Universities; [21.4] High Scholasticism and its Theology
22. MYSTICS and SPIRITUAL WRITERS [2 hrs.]
[22.1] Medieval Mysticism; [22.2] From Eckhart to the Devotio Moderna
23. PAPAL LEADERSHIP and SCHISM [1 hr.]
[23.1] Missions And Defeats; [23.2] The Papacy At Its Height And Its Decline; [23.3] The Papacy In Avignon, Criticism. The Schism
24. NATIONALISM and CONCILIARISM [2 hrs.]
[24.1] Wyclif And Huss; [24.2] The Reforming Councils; [24.3] The Italian Renaissance And Its Popes; [24.4] The New National Powers; [24.5] Renaissance and other Influences North of the Alps
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