
This graduate course
unit focuses on key changes in the Church throughout the past 2,000 years. Focusing on ideas, theology and societal
change, this course provides insight into the Early, Medieval, Reformation and
Modern Church eras. Included are such important
developments and events as: doctrinal formation in the first few centuries; the
primacy of Rome; the rise of Islam and the crusades; the theological revolution
of the Reformation; the impact of the Enlightenment; the rise of denominations;
and the emergence of modernity.