Donald M. Lewis is Professor of Church History at Regent College and is the Secretary of the Anglican Studies Program. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is author of Lighten Their Darkness: The Evangelical Mission to Working-Class London, 1828-1860, The Future Shape of Anglican Ministry, and The Origins of Christian Zionism: Evangelical Support for a Jewish Homeland, as well as editor of Christianity Re-born: The Global Expansion of Evangelicalism in the 20th Century and The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography 1730-1860.
History of Christianity I
Speaker(s): Don Lewis
Date: 1987
Length: 23:40:00
Product ID: RGDV1714S
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Description
This series is designed as an introductory survey of Christian history. It covers the period from the end of the New Testament era (ca. 100 AD) through the first major phase of the Reformation (ca. 1560 AD). The course progresses thematically, stressing the highlights of a given era. Listeners are encouraged to think in terms of broader issues and themes rather than specific chronology and specific events. Lectures include:
- The Early Church: Introduction
- The Early Church: 100-312 A.D.
- Early Deviants in Christian Doctrine
- Patristic Period: 312-600 A.D.
- Patristic Period: Monasticism
- Augustine and Eastern Orthodoxy
- Celtic Church on the Continent
- Renewal Protest in the High Middle Ages
- Crusades and Cultural Renewal Groups
- Decline in the Middle Ages Variants
- Medieval Reformers; Introduction to the Reformation
- Lutheran Reformation
- Radical Reformation
- Reformed Tradition
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