Course Number: Course Name - Ashland Theological Seminary

CH500A: Survey of Church History
ASHLAND THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
Summer Quarter, 2013
June 17-21 (8:30-3:30)
Instructor: Dr. Onalee J. Pierce
Phone: 614-440-1657 (home/cell); Email: opierce@ashland.edu
I. Course Description
This is an introductory course on the basic outline of church history from the early church to the
present, noting the influence of culture upon the church and the influence of the church upon
culture. Attention will be focused upon key events, people, institutions, and ideas that affected
the development of the church. (ATS Core)
II. Relationship to Curriculum Model
The primary purpose of this course is to provide an historical foundation for the remainder of the
curriculum. The study of church history reveals how those who shaped the community of faith
through time were motivated by a strong sense that all of life and ministry must be grounded in
Christ. Discovering mentors in the faith from among the “great cloud of witnesses” helps
students to grow toward maturity in Christ and to see how issues of faithfulness in vocation,
struggle in life, and leadership within the church shape the character of Jesus’ disciples.
Applying insights drawn from major figures and events and the interface of dynamic
communities of faith with their context helps students develop competencies in pastoral
leadership.
III. Student Learning Outcomes
As a result of this course, students will be able to:
Articulate and critically reflect upon their understanding of:
Core Identity rooted in Christ, as the source from which life and ministry flow.
1. Identify the ways in which those who shaped the history of the church were
motivated by a sense of the centrality of Christ in all things.
Character that reflects maturity in Christ.
2. Envisage Christian maturity through the lens of diverse communities of faith and
individual disciples who dedicated their lives to the one Lord.
3. Articulate the characteristics of leaders in the church who exemplified
faithfulness in ministry and life and the salient themes of movements in Christian
history that attempted to manifest authentic discipleship.
Calling that is foundational for servant leadership in the church, community and world.
4. Discern the connections between the vocational vision and challenges of
historical leaders and witnesses and the student’s own growing sense of call.
Demonstrate COMPETENCE in the disciplines and skills relevant to Christian ministry.
Understand the content and major themes of Scripture, Christian doctrine, and church
history
5. Describe the contributions of servant leaders to the ongoing life of the church in
its history.
Demonstrate proficiency in biblical and historical exegesis and theological reflection
6. Demonstrate an ability to incorporate integrative lessons and practices learned
from history that relate to ministry in the church.
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7. Demonstrate attentiveness to contextuality through the examination and
discussion of events in historical context for the purpose of becoming
increasingly competent contextual exegetes today.
Critically reflect on one’s own religious tradition and appreciate other traditions
8. Translate the discoveries of the course into practical forms/actions that will shape
or inform contemporary practices within the community of faith.
IV. Teaching Strategies for Student Learning
This course will utilize a combination of learning strategies including: lecture, discussion,
small groups, various visual aids, student-led discussions, and reflections.
V. Course Requirements
A. Textbook(s) and Other Readings
Dowley, Tim, ed. Introduction to the History of Christianity, rev. ed. Minneapolis:
Fortress Press, 2002. ISBN: 0800634969 (ISBN: 0800638123 offers a CD-ROM
study guide).
*You will need access to the internet for the primary source readings. I recommend
copying the assignments from the webpage and pasting the required sections into a word
processing program (then you can make the selection the desired font size, etc. and you
don’t have to worry about all the miscellaneous material in the margins of the webpage).
Please bring the day’s primary source reading with you to class, either printed out or
saved on a laptop.
**It is recommended that you have the Dowley reading for the course done before class
begins, but it is not required (the final exam will be given three weeks after our last class
session, so you have until then to be completely caught up). However, you MUST have
the primary source readings done for each session because we will be discussing them
each time we meet.
B. Attendance
According to the student handbook, attendance at all class sessions is expected unless the
professor has been notified in advance. Any student missing the equivalent of six class
hours will be required to do additional work, receive a lower grade or withdraw from the
class; this is at the discretion of the professor. This policy also includes tardiness.
C. Assignments/Assessment of Student Learning
Note: Students must place their student mailbox number on the cover page on all papers.
Students without a mailbox: provide the professor with a self-addressed stamped envelope.
Historical Sketches (15% each). You will choose one person for each of four
historical sketches. You may choose the subject for each of your sketches. However,
you must read at least 10 pages from a primary source 1 either written by the person
or about him or her at the time. It is highly recommended that you choose people
1 For more information about what constitutes a primary source, please see Kate L. Turabian, A
Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 7th edition (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2007), 25. If you have remaining questions, please contact me.
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from a variety of backgrounds and/or theologies. (Don’t be afraid to choose someone
with whom you disagree!) The format for the sketches is attached to the end of the
syllabus (pg 10). For the first sketch, the person should be from the 100 CE- 500 CE
and is due June 15 (Note that this is the Saturday before class starts. If you have any
questions about this first sketch, please contact me). The subject of the second sketch
should be from 500 CE- 1000 CE and is due June 22. The third sketch should focus
on a person from 1000 CE- 1500CE and is due June 29. The fourth sketch will be
on a figure from 1500 CE to the present and is due July 6.
Discussion Facilitator (15%). Each student will sign up to lead the primary source
discussion time for one session. Email the instructor by Friday, June 7th with your
top two choices of sessions to be the facilitator. As the facilitator, you should work
through the relevant primary sources carefully and prepare enough discussion
questions for a 30-minute discussion. Where appropriate, you should also bring in
points from the Dowley text and points of application of the material for the church
today. You will turn in your list of questions to the instructor the session in which
you present.
Final Exam (25%). The final exam will be comprehensive and will have two parts.
The objective section (multiple choice/ matching/ true or false/ etc.) and a short
answer identification section will be taken on ANGEL on July 13. The test will be
open from 8:00am-11:00pm. You may take the test any time within that window and
you will have 75 minutes to complete the test once you begin. A study guide will be
given on the last day of class. The second part of the final exam will consist of two
comprehensive essay questions to be answered in a take-home format. The questions
will be given with the study guide and are due at the time of the final exam and will
be submitted via an ANGEL drop-box on July 13.
D. Calculation of Grade
Assignments Learning Outcomes Percent of Final Grade
Historical Sketches 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 60%
Discussion Facilitator 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 15%
Final Exam 3, 5, 6, 7 25%
VI. Tentative Course Schedule
Session Date(s) Lecture/Topic Readings/Assignments
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1 June 17,
morning
Introduction to the
Course
Dowley, 14-25; 37-43; 56-81
2 June 17,
afternoon
Background and the
Early Church
The Church in
Theological Debate
“The Martyrdom of Polycarp,” from
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/martyrdompol
ycarp-lake.html
Dowley, 82-122; 164-194; 204-211
Irenaeus, Against Heresies, “Preface” from
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103100.htm
Augustine, Confessions, Book VIII from
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http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/110108.htm
3 June 18,
morning
The Medieval Church Dowley, 226-246; 260-303
Unam Sanctum, from
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/b8-unam.html
Rule of St. Benedict, choose 2 chapters, from
http://www.osb.org/rb/text/toc.html
4 June 18,
afternoon
5 June 19,
morning
Calls for Reform Dowley, 307-315; 320-350
Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, Chapter VIII from
http://www.gospelweb.net/FoxeMartyrs/FS_FoxeMartyrs
.htm
The Reformation Dowley, 366-394
Martin Luther, “Ninety-Five Theses,” from
http://www.luther.de/en/95thesen.html
6 June 19,
afternoon
7 June 20,
morning
8 June 20,
afternoon
9 June 21,
morning
10 June 21,
afternoon
Reformation, cont.
Scholasticism &
Rationalism
Christianity in
America
Christianity in
America
The Global Church of
the 19th and 20th
Centuries
NO CLASS
Dowley, 401-434; 485-506
“Schleitheim Confession of Faith,” “The Cover Letter
[Introductory]” and “the Seven Articles,” from
http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/S345.html
Dowley, 436-461
Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,”
from
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/sermons.sinners.html
Charles Finney, Lectures on Revival of Religion, Lecture I,
from
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/finney/revivals.iii.i.html
Dowley, 518-547; 646-653
Harry E. Fosdick, “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” from
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5070/
Martin Luther King, Jr, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” from
http://abacus.bates.edu/admin/offices/dos/mlk/letter.html
Dowley, 557-570; 628-645; 660-672
Elizabeth Isichei, A History of Christianity in Africa, 323-352
(will be available on ANGEL as a pdf file).
(The final exam will take place on July 13, via ANGEL.)
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VII. Other Course Instructions
A. Writing Guidelines
When writing your papers, please follow these general guidelines: use 12-point Times New
Roman or Courier New fonts only; use one inch margins; use Turabian formatting for
citations; when in doubt, include a citation. For this course, all papers must be submitted
via ANGEL drop-boxes. This saves a vast amount of paper and allows the instructor to spotcheck
for plagiarism.
B. Late Policy
Assignments turned in after the deadline will be docked five points for each day late, unless
permission to do otherwise was granted by the professor ahead of time.
VIII. Recommendations for Lifelong Learning
As you participate in this course and engage in the material, you will encounter figures who
intrigue you. Make note of these and, as you continue on in your seminary career and in
your ministry, bring these people along with you. Continue to investigate them, allowing
their life-lessons and wisdom to permeate your walk.
Also, the Selected Bibliography below contains many wonderful resources which may
further enrich your appreciation for church history. You may also want to consider
consulting journals such as Church History and Fides et Historia.
IX. Seminary Guidelines
A. ATS Academic Integrity Policy
Ashland Theological Seminary seeks to model servant leadership derived from biblical standards of
honesty and integrity. We desire to encourage, develop, and sustain men and women of character
who will exemplify these biblical qualities in their ministry to the church and the world. As
members of the seminary community, students are expected to hold themselves to the highest
standards of academic, personal, and social integrity. All students, therefore, are expected to abide
by the academic integrity standards outlined in the Student Handbook.
B. Academic Support Services
If you need assistance with writing projects for your coursework, contact the ATS Academic Support
Center. The center provides free sessions with a peer consultant who can help you with all of your
concerns about academic support including writing, critical thinking, documentation, reading skills,
study skills, test taking skills, time management. Contact the center if you have a question about
how to complete your assignment, if you have documentation questions, or if you would like to have
your paper evaluated for areas needing improvement. The ATS Academic Support Center can be
reached at 419-289-5162 or by e-mail at atswc@ashland.edu.
C. Students with Disabilities
Students with documented disabilities who require academic adjustments for this class are
requested to contact me to discuss reasonable accommodations. While not required, it is in the best
interest of the student to have this conversation early in the semester. In order to receive academic
adjustments paperwork from Disability Services must be provided to document this need.
Disability Services is located in 105 Amstutz, extension 5953 (419-289-5953).
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D. ATS Grading Scale
Grade Percent Description
A 97-100 Superior achievement of course objectives, diligence and originality, high degree
of freedom from error, outstanding evidence of ability to utilize course
knowledge, initiative expressed in preparing and completing assignments,
positive contributions verbalized in class.
A- 92-96
B+ 89-91
B 86-88 Good work submitted, commendable achievement of course objectives, some
aspects of the course met with excellence, substantial evidence of ability to utilize
course material, positive contributions verbalized in class, consistency and
thoroughness of work completed.
B- 83-85
C+ 80-82
C 77-79 Acceptable work completed, satisfactory achievement of course objectives,
demonstrating at least some ability to utilize course knowledge, satisfactory class
contribution.
C- 74-76
D+ 71-73
D 68-70 Passing but minimal work, marginal achievement of course objectives, poor
performance in comprehension of work submitted, inadequate class contributions.
D- 65-67
F Below 65 Unacceptable work resulting in failure to receive class credit, inadequacy of work
submitted or of performance and attendance in class.
X. Selected Bibliography or References
General Texts
Barrett, David B. World Christian Encyclopedia. New York: Oxford, 1982.
Brauer, Jerald C. The Westminster Dictionary of the Christian Church. Westminster, 1971.
Cross, L. and E.A. Livingsone, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. New York: Oxford, 1974.
Douglas, J.D. The New International Dictionary of the Christian Church. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1974.
González, Justo L. A History of Christian Thought, 3 vols., rev. ed. Nashville: Abingdon, 1987.
__________. The Story of Christianity: The Early Church to the Present Day. Peabody, MA: Prince Press, 1985.
Latourette, Kenneth Scott. A History of Christianity, 2 vols., rev. ed. Peabody, MA: Prince Press, 1975.
Shelley, Bruce L. Church History in Plain Language, 2nd ed. Nashville: Nelson, 1995.
Walker, Williston. A History of the Christian Church. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1985.
Anthologies
Bettenson, H. Documents of the Christian Church. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bindley, T.H. and F.W. Green. The Oecumenical Documents of the Faith. Methuen.
McGrath, Alister. Christian Literature: An Anthology. Whiley.
Oden, Amy. In Her Words: Women’s Writings in the History of Christian Thought. Nashville: Abingdon, 1994.
Stevenson, J. Creeds, Councils and Controversies (371-461). SPCK.
__________. A New Eusebius. SPCK.
Van Voorst, Robert E. Readings in Christianity. Wadsworth.
Multi-Volume Series
The Cambridge History of Christianity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Classics of Western Spirituality. Paulist Press.
IVP Histories Series
Library of Christian Classics. Westminster.
Library of Protestant Thought. Oxford University Press.
The Pelican History of the Church. Penguin Books.
SPCK Church History Series (TEF Volumes)
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Early Church History/Patristics
Anderson, Graham. Sage, Saint, and Sophist: Holy Men and Their Associates in the Early Roman Empire. New
York: Routledge, 1994.
Anti-Nicene Fathers. Eerdmans.
Casiday, Augustine and Frederick W. Norris, eds. Constantine to c. 600. New York: Cambridge University Press,
2007.
Denzey, Nicola. The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women. Boston: Beacon Press, 2007.
Dungan, David L. Constantine's Bible: Politics and the Making of the New Testament. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2007.
Harris, W.V., ed. The Spread of Christianity in the First Four Centuries: Essays in Explanation. Boston: E.J. Brill,
2005.
Humphries, Mark. Communities of the Blessed: Social Environment and Religious Change in Northern Italy, AD
200-400. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Jurgens, William A. The Faith of the Early Fathers, 3 vols. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press.
Kelly, J.N.D. Early Christian Doctrines. A & C Black, 1977.
__________. Early Christian Creeds. New York: Longman, 1972.
Lyman, Rebecca. Early Christian Traditions. Cambridge: Cowley Publications, 1999.
Nasrallah, Laura and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, eds. Prejudice and Christian beginnings: Investigating Race,
Gender, and Ethnicity in Early Christian Studies. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009.
Pelikán, Jaroslav. The Excellent Empire: the Fall of Rome and the Triumph of the Church. San Francisco: Harper,
1990.
Räisänen, Heikki. The Rise of Christian Beliefs: The Thought World of Early Christians. Minneapolis: Fortress
Press, 2010.
Schwiebert, Jonathan. Knowledge and the Coming Kingdom : the Didache's Meal Ritual and Its Place in Early
Christianity. New York: T & T Clark, 2008.
Verbrugge, Verlyn D. Early Church History. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998.
Young, Frances. From Nicea to Chalcedon. Fortress, 1983.
Middle Ages
Bornstein, Daniel E., ed. Medieval Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009.
Bredero, Adriaan H. Christendom and Christianity in the Middle Ages : the Relations between Religion, Church,
and Society. Translated by Reinder Bruinsma. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.
Chadwick, Henry. East and West: the Making of a Rift in the Church : from Apostolic Times until the Council of
Florence. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Colish, Marcia L. Medieval Foundations of the Western Intellectual Tradition, 400-1400. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1997.
Fletcher, Richard. The Barbarian Conversion: from Paganism to Christianity. New York: H. Holt and Co., 1998.
Freeman, Charles. The Closing of the Western Mind: the Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason. New York: A.A.
Knopf, 2003.
Geary, Patrick J. Readings in Medieval History, 3rd ed. Toronto: Broadview Press, 2003.
Knowles, David. Christian Monasticism. McGraw-Hill, 1990.
Lynch, Joseph H. The Medieval Church: A Brief History. New York: Longman, 1992.
MacMullen, Ramsay. Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries. New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1997.
Noble, Thomas F.X. and Julia M. H. Smith. Early Medieval Christianities, c. 600-c. 1100. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2008.
Runciman, Steven. History of the Crusades, 3 vols. Penguin Books, 1971.
Vauchez, André. The Laity in the Middle Ages: Religious Beliefs and Devotional Practices. South Bend: University
of Notre Dame Press, 1993.
Volz, Carl A. The Medieval Church: From the Dawn of the Middle Ages to the Eve of the Reformation. Nashville:
Abingdon, 1997.
Reformation
Bogchi, David and David C. Steinmetz, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Reformation Theology. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Bouwsma, William A. John Calvin: A Sixteenth-Century Portrait. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Brady, Thomas, Heiko A. Oberman, and James Tracy, eds. Handbook of European History, 1400-1600. Leiden:
Brill, 1995.
Cameron, Euan. The European Reformation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
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Diefendorf, Barbara B. Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1991.
George, Timothy. Theology of the Reformers. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1999.
Gregory, Brad S. Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe. Harvard Historical Series, no.
134. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Hillerbrand, Hans Joachim. Historical Dictionary of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. Lanham, MD:
Scarecrow Press, 2000.
Maag, Karin, ed. Melanchthon in Europe: His Work and Influence Beyond Wittenberg. Grand Rapids: Baker,
1999.
Marshall, Sherrin, ed. Women in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe: Public and Private Worlds.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989.
McGrath, Alister. Reformation Thought: An Introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1999.
Oberman, Heiko A. The Dawn of the Reformation: Essays in Late Medieval and Early Reformation Thought.
London: T and T Clark, 1986.
__________. Luther: Man Between God and the Devil. Translated by Eileen Walliser-Schwarzbart. New York:
Doubleday, 1989.
Ozment, Steven. When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe. Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
1983.
Scribner, R.W. For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1994.
Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (there are many translations and editions of this
book available).
Whiting, Robert. Local Responses to the English Reformation. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Williams, George H. The Radical Reformation. Westminster, 1962.
Scholasticism/Rationalism
Armstrong, Brian G. Calvinism and the Amyraut Heresy: Protestant Scholasticism and Humanism in Seventeenth-
Century France. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1969.
Barnett, S.J. The Enlightenment and Religion: the Myths of Modernity. New York: Manchester University Press,
2003.
Brown, Dale. Understanding Pietism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978.
Byrne, James M. Religion and the Enlightenment: from Descartes to Kant. Louisville: Westminster John Knox
Press, 1997.
Clark, Kelly James. Return to Reason: a Critique of Enlightenment Evidentialism, and a Defense of Reason and
Belief in God. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990.
Frei, Hans. The Eclipse of the Biblical Narrative: A Study in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century Hermeneutics.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974.
Gay, Peter. The Enlightenment, 2 vols. Knopf, 1966-69.
Muller, Richard A. After Calvin: Studies in the Development of a Theological Tradition. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2003.
__________. Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics: the Rise and Development of Reformed Orthodoxy, ca. 1520
to ca. 1725. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2003.
Scholder, Klaus. The Birth of Modern Critical Theology: Origins and Problems of Biblical Criticism in the
Seventeenth Century. Translated by John Bowden. Philadelpia: Trinity Press International, 1990.
Spinoza, Benedict. A Theologico-Political Treatise. New York: Dover, 1951.
Stoeffler, F. Ernst. German Pietism during the Eighteenth Century. E.J. Brill, 1973.
van Asselt, Willem J. and Eef Dekker. Reformation and Scholasticism: an Ecumenical Enterprise. Grand Rapids:
Baker Academic, 2001.
Wolfe, Michael, ed. Changing Identities in Early Modern France. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
American Church History
Ahlstrom, Sydney E. A Religious History of the American People. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972.
Blumhofer, Edith. Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody’s Sister. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1993.
Braude, Ann. Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America, 2 d ed.
Bloomington, Ind.: University of Indiana Press, 2001.
Cott, Nancy F. Bonds of Womanhood: “Woman’s Sphere” in New England, 1780-1835. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1977.
Danaher, William J. The Trinitarian Ethics of Jonathan Edwards. Columbia Series in Reformed Theology.
Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004.
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Douglas, Ann. The Feminization of American Culture. New York: Knopf, 1977.
Epstein, Barbara Leslie. The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism, and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century
America. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1981.
Gaustad, Edwin and Leigh Schmidt. The Religious History of America: The Heart of the American Story from
Colonial Times to Today, rev. ed. San Francisco: Harper, 2002.
Hatch, Nathan O. The Democratization of American Christianity. New Haven:Yale University Press, 1989.
Holifield, E. Brooks. Theology in America: Christian Thought from the Age of the Puritans to the Civil War. New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
Keller, Rosemary Skinner, and Rosemary Radford Ruether, eds. Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North
America. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2006.
Kidd, Thomas S. The Great Awakening: The Roots of Evangelical Christianity in Colonial America. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 2007.
Marsden, George. Fundamentalism and American Culture: The Shaping of Twentieth-Century Evangelicalism.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
McGreevy, John T. Catholicism and American Freedom: A History. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.
Noll, Mark A. America’s God: from Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln. New York: Oxford, 2002.
__________. A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans,
1992.
Raboteau, Albert J. A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History. Boston: Beacon
Press, 1996.
Smith, Christian. American Evangelicalism: Embattled and Thriving. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Smith, Timothy L. Revivalism and Social Reform: American Protestantism on the Eve of the Civil War. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
Soper, J. Christopher. Evangelical Christianity in the United States and Great Britain: Religious Beliefs, Political
Choices. London: Macmillan, 1994.
Stoeffler, F. Ernest, ed. Continental Pietism and Early American Christianity. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock
Publishers, 2007.
Global Christianity
Ambacher, Henry B. Under the Shadow of the Dragon: the Growth of God's Church in Hong Kong. Harrisburg,
PA: Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, 2003.
Angold, Michael. Byzantium. St. Martin’s Press, 2001.
Bays, Daniel H., ed. Christianity in China: from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 1996.
Bergunder, Michael. The South Indian Pentecostal Movement in the Twentieth Century. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans,
2008.
Clark, Donald N. Christianity in Modern Korea. University Press, 1986.
Drummond, Richard H. A History of Christianity in Japan. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1971.
Drussel, Enrique D. A History of the Church in Latin America. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981.
Dyrness, William A. Emerging Voices in Global Theology. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994.
Gilley, Sheridan and Brian Stanley. World Christianities, c. 1815-1914. New York: Cambridge University Press,
2006.
Goodpasture, H. McKennie. Cross and Sword: an Eyewitness History of Christianity in Latin America. Maryknoll,
NY: Orbis Books, 1989.
Hastings, Adrian. The Church in Africa, 1450-1950. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Isichei, Elizabeth. A History of Christianity in Africa: from Antiquity to Present. London: SPCK, 1995.
Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom: the Coming of Global Christianity, rev. ed. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2007.
Kalu, Ogbu U., ed. Interpreting Contemporary Christianity: Global Processes and Local Identities. Grand Rapids:
Eerdmans , 2008.
Lewis, Donald M. Christianity Reborn: the Global Expansion of Evangelicalism in the Twentieth Century. Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004.
McLeod, Hugh, ed. World Christianities c. 1914-c. 2000. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Neill, Stephen. A History of Christianity in India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Shenk, Wilbert R. Enlarging the Story: Perspectives on Writing World Christian History. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis
Books, 2002.
Suman, Michael D. The Church in China : One Lord Two Systems. Bangalore, India: SAIACS Press, 2006.
Ware, Timothy. The Orthodox Church. Penguin, 1993.
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HISTORICAL SKETCH FORMAT
I. Context
What are some events/ church happenings/ theologies that may have shaped the life
and ministry of the person? Briefly describe the culture of the day. (NB—this section should
not include details about the person’s life.)
*2-3 paragraphs
II. Background information
Describe what is known (or in some cases, may be logically inferred) about the person’s life
before he/she became prominent (such as details about the person’s family life, childhood,
education/ training, etc.).
*1-2 paragraphs
III. Ministry information
Discuss aspects such as calling into ministry, distinctive characteristics, the primary
influencers in the person’s life, obstacles in ministry, climactic moments, distinctive
thoughts/ theologies, writings, etc. You decide what is most important to include.
*3-4 paragraphs
IV. Present Day Applications
With an understanding of the cultural differences, what are some aspects of the individual’s
life that can be applied to ours? Think of both positives and negatives (i.e., things to emulate
and things to avoid). You may use first person here, but ONLY here.
*2-3 paragraphs
V. Bibliography
You should use at least three scholarly secondary sources and only one may be from the
internet (the Dowley text does not qualify as one of these sources, though you should
include it in your bibliography if you did use it as a source). You are strongly encouraged to
reference journal articles when possible. Additionally, one source must be a primary source
(this may be from the internet).
**The total page count should be 3-4 pages total, double spaced**
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