CH002-712 - Christianity in History from 1550

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  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 7
    AQF level
  • Category foundational unit
    A
  • church historyUnit Discipline

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code CH502.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

Demonstrate Functional knowledge and understanding of Christianity in history.

B. Be able to

1. Explain the major phases and developments in the history of Christianity from 1550 in their political and social contexts

2. Evaluate the contribution of selected people to the development of Christianity from 1550 to the present

3. Synthesise data from selected primary and secondary sources to formulate Critical historical viewpoints on the period from 1550 to the present

4. Present Critical evidence-based perspectives on the history of Christianity from 1550 to the present

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying perspectives from the  ‘Christianity from 1550’ to inform ministry practice as a reflective practitioner

Content

Section A: Reform, Revolution and Renewal
    1. Reformation: England and Scotland (1533–1588)
        Thomas Cranmer OR John Knox.
    2. Puritanism in England and America (1563–1662).
        Oliver Cromwell OR Richard Baxter OR John Winthrop OR Roger Williams.
    3. Revolutionary Learning & Radical Politics
        3.1 Deism and the Enlightenment;
        3.2 Jansenism;
        3.3 The Church in the French Revolution;
            John Locke OR Blaise Pascal.
                •    Lecturers must focus on at least 1 of the topics.
Section B: Change & Renewal
    4. Renewal
        4.1 Pietism;
        4.2 the Evangelical Revival in Britain;
        4.3 the Great Awakening in America;
        4.4 The Oxford Movement;
            John Wesley OR George Whitefield OR Jonathan Edwards OR John Henry Newman.
                •    Lecturers must focus on at least 2 of the topics.
    5. Responding to the changing Social Order
        5.1 Frontier Religion in America;
        5.2 The abolition of slavery;
        5.3 Christian Socialism;
        5.4 Salvation Army;
        5.5 Women in the Church;
            Francis Asbury OR William Wilberforce OR F. D. Maurice OR William & Catherine Booth OR
                •    Lecturers must focus on at least 1 of the topics.
    6. Responding to challenges to Faith
        6.1 The Rise of Biblical Criticism;
        6.2 Science and Religion;
        6.3 The First Vatican Council;
        6.4 Fundamentalism;
            Friedrich Schleiermacher OR Charles Darwin OR Pius IX OR John Gresham Machen.
                •    Lecturers must focus on at least 1 of the topics.
Section C: The Church Universal
    7. The church in a global context:
        7.1 The birth of modern missions;
              William Carey
        7.2 Christian missions in India OR China OR the Pacific OR Africa (nineteenth century);
              David Livingstone OR Hudson Taylor
        7.3 Christian missions & the rise of nationalism (twentieth century);
        7.4 Ecumenical movements;
              J. R. Mott
        7.5 Vatican II;
              John XXIII
        7.6 The History of Pentecostalism;
        7.7 Christians in a Totalitarian State: the church in Germany (1931-1945) OR The Soviet Union (1917-1990);
            Dietrich Bonhoeffer OR Alexander Solzhenitsyn
                •    Lecturers must focus on at least 3 of the topics.
     8. A history of the church in Australia:
        8.1 Building a Christian Country 1788-1901;
        8.2 The Church in Secular Australia 1901 to the present;
        8.3 Ministry to Indigenous communities;
            •    Lecturers must focus on at least 1 of the topics.

Set Readings

Secondary References:

Cross, F. L. and E. A. Livingstone (eds), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd rev. ed. (London: OUP, 2005).

Hillerbrand, H. J. (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Protestantism (New York: Routledge, 2003).

Yates, T., The Expansion of Christianity (Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2004).

Gonzalez, J., The story of Christianity, Vol. 2: The Reformation to the present day (New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2010).

Woodbridge, J. D. & F. A. James, Church History, Vol. 2. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013).

 

Reform and Revolution:

Michael P. Winship Hot Protestants: A history of Puritanism in England and America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018).

Dickens, A. G., The English Reformation (2nd ed.; University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, 1989).

Lindberg, C. The European Reformations, 2nd ed. (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

Heinze, R (2006). Reform and Conflict (Oxford: Monarch, 2006).

Coffey, J. & Lim, P. C. H. (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Puritans. (Cambridge: CUP, 2008).

Kellar, C., Scotland, England & the Reformation 1534-61 (Oxford: Clarendon, 2003).

Pearse, M., The Age of Reason: from the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution, 1670-1789 Oxford: Monarch, 2007).

Rosnan, D., The Evolution of the English Churches, 1500-2000 (Cambridge: CUP, 2003).

 

Change and Renewal:

Grainger, B., Church in the Wild: Evangelicals in Antebellum America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019).

Heitzenrater, R. P., Wesley and the People Called Methodists (Nashville: Abingdon, 1995).

Herring, G., What was the Oxford Movement? (London: Continuum, 2002).

Kidd, T., The Great Awakening: The roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007).

Knight, F., The Church in the Nineteenth Century (London: I. B. Tauris, 2008).

Noll, M. A., America’s God: from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (Oxford/NY: OUP, 2002).

Noll, M. A., The Old Religion in the New World: the history of North American Christianity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002).

Noll, M. A., The Rise of Evangelicalism: The age of the Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys. (Leicester, England: IVP, 2004).

Numbers, R. L., Science and Christianity in Pulpit and Pew (NY: OUP, 2007).

Rack, Henry. Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism, 3rd ed. (London: Epworth, 2002).

Sorkin, D. J., The Religious Enlightenment: Protestants, Jews, and Catholics from London to Vienna (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).

Wolffe, J. (2006). The Expansion of Evangelicalism (Downer’s Grove, IL: IVP, 2006).

 

The Church Universal:

Askew, T. A. and R. V. Pierard. The American church experience: A concise history (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004).

Bellito, C. M. (2001). Renewing Christianity: A history of church reform from day one to Vatican II.  (New York: Paulist, 2001).

Bergen, D. L., Twisted Cross: the German Christian Movement in the Third Reich (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina, 1996).

Breward, I., A History of the Churches in Australasia (Oxford: OUP, 2001).

Briggs, J., M. A. Oduyoye and G. Tsetsis (eds), History of the Ecumenical Movement Vol III: 1968-2000 (Geneva: WCC, 2004).

Gilley, S. and B. Stanley (eds), World Christianities, c. 1815-1914 (Cambridge/New York: CUP, 2006).

Harris, J. One Blood: Two Hundred Years of Aboriginal Encounter with Christianity, 2nd ed. (Melbourne: Australians Together, 1993).

Jenkins, P., The Great and Holy War: How World War I Changed Religion for Ever (New York: Harper Collins, 2014).

Moffett, S. H., A History of Christianity in Asia , Vol. 2, 1500-1900 (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2005).

O’Malley, J. W., Trent and all that: renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2000).

Piggin, S., The Fountain of Public Prosperity: Evangelical Christians in Australian History 1740–1914 (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2018).

Piggin, S., Attending to the National Soul: Evangelical Christians In Australian History, 1914-2014 (Melbourne: Monash University Publishing, 2019).

Stanley, B., Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018).

Treloar, G., The Disruption of Evangelicalism (London: IVP, 2016).