Christ the Vine

[1.1] The General Situation; [1.2] The Jewish Background; [1.3] Jesus and the Disciples;

[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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