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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) 6 Revised 8-31-11
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. 7 Revised 8-31-11
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