CH301/501  The Church to 1550

3 hours per week semester 1

Lecturer:  Jared Hood

Outcomes: To give a survey of major developments in the history of the Christian church and of Christian thought, to promote training in the use of primary documents, and to enable awareness of the relevance of the past to the present.

Description:  A study of the Church in Imperial Rome: including the Apostolic Fathers and the challenge of Judaism, the Apologists and the challenge of Gnosticism, the Christian Empire;  the ecumenical councils and the challenge of Arianism, and Augustine; the Church as Christendom: including the Holy Roman Empire, medieval theology, conciliarism, and mysticism; Precursors to the Reformation: including Hus and Wycliffe.

Textbooks:

E E Cairns, Christianity Through the Centuries (Zondervan, 3rd edition, 1996).

J L Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity, 2 vols (Harper Collins, 1985).

M A Noll, Turning Points (IVP/Baker, 1997).

A M Renwick & A M Harman, The Story of the Church (IVP, 3rd edition, 1999).

J Stevenson (ed), A New Eusebius (SPCK, new edition, 1989).

 

CH302/502  The Church from 1550 to Modern Times

3 hours per week semester 2

Lecturer:  Jared Hood

Outcomes: To give a survey of major developments in the history of the Christian church and of Christian thought, to promote training in the use of primary documents, and to enable awareness of the relevance of the past to the present.

Description: Reform and Revolution: the English Reformation; English Puritanism; Revolutionary learning;  Change and Renewal: the Evangelical Awakening; Evangelicalism and social change; Liberalism and Fundamentalism; The Church Universal: Missions, Ecumenism, Vatican II, Pentecostalism; the Church under Nazism; the Church in Australia.

Textbooks:

E E Cairns, Christianity Through the Centuries (Zondervan, 3rd edition, 1996).

J L Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity, 2 vols (Harper Collins, 1985).

I H Murray, Australian Christian Life from 1788 (Banner, 1988).

M A Noll, Turning Points (IVP/Baker, 1997).

A M Renwick & A M Harman, The Story of the Church (IVP, 3rd edition, 1999).

 

CH421/621  The Continental Reformation

3 hours per week semester 1, not offered every year

Lecturer: Jared Hood

Outcomes: To explain the causes and nature of the Continental Reformation, to analyse the theological and ecclesiastical outcomes of the Reformation, to interpret primary historical and theological documents of the Reformation, and to enable awareness of the relevance of the past to the present.

Description:  A study of the Avignon Captivity, the Conciliar Movement, the theological setting of the Reformatuion, Martin Luther and the Reformation in Germany, Huldrych Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation, the Radical Reformation and the Anabaptists, John Calvin and the Reformation in Geneva; and study and analysis of J Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Bk IV.

Textbooks:

W R Estep, Renaissance and Reformation (Eerdmans, 1998).

A E McGrath, Reformation Thought (Blackwell, 1988).

 

CH489/689  Presbyterian History: from Reformation to Australia

3 hours per week semester 2, not offered every year

Lecturer:  Jared Hood

Outcomes: to explain the development of Presbyterianism in Scotland and Australia from the time of the Reformation until the current age, to interpret primary historical and theological documents across the history of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland and Australia, and to enable awareness of the relevance of the past to the present.

Description:

1. Scottish roots: include the Scottish Reformation, the Covenanters, awakening and  secessions, missions and the Disruption, unions and the rise of biblical criticism.

2. Australian planting: including John Dunmore Lang and James Forbes, divisions and State unions, temperance, theological halls, missions, Charles Strong.

3. Australian growth: including federalism, Samuel Angus, the division of 1977, recent challenges.

Textbook: Allan and Mairi Harman, Australian Presbyterian History - with its Scottish and Irish Background (Melbourne: PTC, 2003).