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Church History - 11th Grade Bible

Course Description
Over the next semester, we will do our best to cover at least a representative sample of Church history from the Apostles up through the present. As we delve into our shared past, we’ll look at the good, the bad and the ugly. Most likely, you’ll experience the normal range of emotions that go with such things: joy, anger, frustration, embarrassment, etc. There are men and women whose lives changed everything for us. They are the giants upon whose shoulders we currently stand. And there are men and women who used the Faith as a tool to obtain wealth and power. This class covers all of it.

If there is time, I’d like to do some comparison and contrast with you regarding modern denominations and possibly even some major world religions. I’m sure we’ll have animated discussions about theology (yes it can happen) and most likely we will disagree about some things. And it will be great.

Most importantly, my desire is that during this course your faith in the Risen Christ will deepen. Absolutely everything we will do in this class is about Jesus. We are trying to understand: what he did, who he is, and who we are in relationship to him. We do this because what you think about God is the most important thought you will ever have.


Currently, this class uses the text Christian History Made Easy, (2005) by Timothy Paul Jones. All reading questions and outlines are based off this book unless otherwise noted. The chapter titles below are the chapter titles from the book.

Chapter 1 - The Gospels, The Apostles, Then What?

AD 64-177

Chapter 2 - Balancing the Past with the Present

AD 90-250
To help the visitor get a better grasp of what's actually involved in the sections, the vocab covered in chapter's 1 and 2 on the left.

Because I test every two chapters, the vocab will be for two chapters.
1.    Apologist
2.    asceticism
3.     canon
4.     Demiurge
5.     Docetism
6.     Gnosticism
7.    Justin Martyr
8.    Marcion
9.     Montanism
10.  Nero
11.  Origen
12.  Overseer
13.  Pliny

Chapter 3 - The Church Wins

AD 247-420

Chapter 4 - Servant-Leaders or Leaders of Servants

AD376-664
Vocab for chapters 3 and 4
1.     Ambrose
2.     Arius
3.     Athanasius
4.     Augustine
5.     Constantine
6.     Council of Calcedon



7.     Council of Nicaea
8.     Cyprian
9.     Donatists (Donatism)
10.   Edict of Milan
11.   First Council of Constantinople
12.   Gregory the Great
13.   Homoousias
14.   John Chrysostom
15.   Jovinian
16.   Modalism
17.   Monk
18.   Monophysite
19.   Nestorius
20.   Pelagius
21.   Perichoresis
22.   Sacrifice certificates
23.   Saint Jerome
24.  The Benedictine Rule
25.  The Great Cappadocians
26.  Theodosius

Chapter 5 - From Multiplication to Division

AD 496 - 1291

Chapter 6 - God Never Stops Working

AD 673-1295
Vocab for chapters 5 and 6.
1.   “And the Son”
2.    Anselm
3.    Bernard of Clairvaux
4.    Berno of Cluny
5.    Bull
6.    Charlemagne


7.    Charles Martel
8.    Crusades
9.    Cyril
10.  Feudal System
11.  Francis of Assisi
12.  Hildegard of Bingen
13.  Innocent III
14.  Islam
15.  John of Damascus
16.  King Pepin III
17.  Leo III
18.  Leo IX
19.  Mendicant
20.  Muhammad
21.  Mystics
22.  Peter Waldo
23.  Scholastic
24.  Thomas Aquinas
25.  Transubstantiation
26.  Urban II

Chapter 7 - Everything Falls Apart

AD 1294-1517

Chapter 8 - Wild Pigs in a Dirty Vineyard

AD 1500-1609
Vocab for chapters 7 and 8.
1.    Anabaptists
2.    Avignon
3.    Black Death
4.    Common Life Movement
5.    Consubstantiation


6.    Council of Trent
7.    Diet of Worms
8.    Erasmus
9.    Felix Manz
10.  Henry VIII
11.  Humanism
12.  Ignatius Loyola
13.  Jan Hus
14.  Joan of Arc
15.  John Calvin
16.  John Wycliffe
17.  Martin Luther
18.  Menno Simons
19.  Renaissance
20.  Thomas A’Kempis
21.  Transubstantiation
22.  Ulrich Zwingli
23.  William Tyndale

Chapter 9 - Change Doesn't Always do you Good

AD 1510-1767

Chapter 10 - Talking About Some Revolutions

AD 1620-1814
Vocab for chapters 9 and 10
1.     Arminian Remonstrance
2.     Bartolome de Las Casas
3.     Deism
4.     Galileo
5.     George Whitefield
6.     Isaac Newton
7.     Jacob Arminius
8.     Jesuit Missions


9.     John Bunyan
10.   John Smyth
11.   John Wesley
12.   Jonathan Edwards
13.   Methodists
14.   Moravians
15.   Nickolaus Zizendorf
16.   Nicolas Copernicus
17.   Oliver Cromwell
18.   Pedro Claver
19.   Pietism
20.   Puritans
21.   Roger Williams
22.   Salem Witch Trials
23.   Sola Fide
24.   Sola Gratia
25.   Sola Scriptura
26.   Synod of Dordt
27.   The Great Awakening
28.   TULIP

Chapter 11 - Optimism has its Limits

AD 1780-1914

Denominations Project

You will research one of five prominent denominations of the Protestant Church and presenting it to your peers.

Once you have been assigned your denomination, you will research according to three subjects:

1.    “The Beginnings of the Denomination,”
2.    “A Brief History of the Denomination,” and
3.    “The Current Conditions of the Denomination.”

You will have approximately 40 minutes to present your denomination project to the class.  You must include all the elements of each subject (see below), leaving time for questions along the way or at the end of your presentation.  All members of the group must participate in the research and all members of the group must speak at some point in the presentation. 

The group will be graded as a whole on how well they meet all the requirements of the project.

Assessment

I've grouped the chapters in pairs because that is the way I test them. I do give quizzes over every odd chapter. This usually consists of 4 to 5 short answer questions covering the overarching themes or V.I.P.s of the chapter. The only exception to this is in chapter 9 where we do a more in depth look at the theology of the Reformation (Sola Scriptura and all the other Solas along with TULIP). Chapter reviews are located on the 'Chapters x + y' subpages near the bottom.

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