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
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