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THEO648 History and Development of the Church

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation 2 hours per week for twelve weeks or equivalent. The unit may be offered on-campus and online.

This unit examines selected periods in the history of the Christian church from the pontificate of Gregory the Great to the present day. It focuses on those images and dimensions by which the church as sought to express an understanding of itself theologically, and which have been of special significance for subsequent generations. Students will be offered the possibility of concentrating on one or more of the periods listed below:

  • the World of the Medieval Christian;
  • the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation;
  • the Age of Absolutism and the Rise of Secular Society;
  • the French Revolution and the Modern World.

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