Faith and Biblical Witness Class

FAITH AND BIBLICAL WITNESS
Sundays, 9:30 -10:20 a.m., in the Community Room
HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
IN THE REFORMATION ERA
˜ September 11
Early Modern Christianity—A Larger View
˜ September 18
The Landscape of Late Medieval Life
˜ September 25
Late Medieval Christendom—
Beliefs, Practices, Institutions I
˜ October 2
Late Medieval Christendom—
Beliefs, Practices, Institutions II
˜ October 9
Vigorous or Corrupt?
Christianity on the Eve of the Reformation
˜ October 16
Christian Humanism—
Erudition, Education, Reform
˜ October 23
Martin Luther's Road to Reformation
˜ October 30
Gifts Festival Breakfast (no class)
˜ November 6
The Theology of Martin Luther
˜ November 13
Huldrych Zwingli—
The Early Reformation in Switzerland
˜ November 20
Profile of a Protest Movement—
The Early Reformation in Germany
˜ November 27
Advent Wreath Making (no class)
˜ December 4
The Peasants' War of 1524-1525
˜ December 11
The Emergence of Early Anabaptism
˜ December 18
The Spread of Early Protestantism—
France, the Low Countries, and England
˜ December 25
Christmas Holiday (no class)
˜ January 1
Christmas Holiday (no class)
˜ January 8
The Henrician Reformation in England
˜ January 15
Defending the Traditional Order—
Early Catholic Response
˜ January 22
The Rise and Fall of the Kingdom of Münster
˜ January 29
John Calvin and the Reformation in Geneva
˜ February 5
Catholic Renewal and Reform in Italy
˜ February 12
The Growth and Embattlement
of Protestantism
˜ February 19
Calvinism in France and the Low Countries
˜ February 26
John Knox and the Scottish Reformation
˜ March 5
Menno Simons and the Dutch Mennonites
˜ March 12
The Council of Trent
˜ March 19
Roman Catholicism after Trent
˜ April 16
Easter Day (no class)
˜ April 23
Elizabethan England—
Protestants, Puritans, and Catholics
˜ April 30
Confessionalization in Germany
˜ May 7
France and the Low Countries in the 1600s
˜ March 26
Going Global—Catholic Missions
˜ May 14
The Thirty Years' War—Religion and Politics
˜ April 2
The French Wars of Religion
˜ May 21
Revolution and Restoration in England
˜ April 9
Religion and Politics in the Dutch Revolt