Course of Christian history in East and West; relations between spirituality, doctrine, and institutional forms. Covers the ancient period, from the Apostolic Fathers to the Islamic conquests (90–650).
Grading Options:
Optional; see degree guide or catalog for degree requirements
Instructor:
Shoemaker S
Office:
348 Susan Campbell Hall Phone:
(541) 346-4998
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Expanded Course Description
This course is designed to introduce various aspects of Christianity during the first seven centuries of its existence. Although this course focuses to a certain extent on the development of what would later become ?orthodox? Christianity within the bounds of the Roman Empire, this is not to the exclusion of rival forms of early Christianity. Considerable attention will also be given to the spread of Christianity along the fringes and outside the borders of the Roman Empire. We will concentrate especially on the historical diversity of the early Christian tradition, in an effort to understand better its contemporary complexity. In the course of the term, students will read and write reflective essays on several primary sources, each selected to represent the historical and confessional diversity of Christian traditions, as well as to present certain basic problems from the history of Christianity. We will conclude in the middle of the seventh century, a period often considered "the end of antiquity," and while this periodization is not unproblematic, the Arab conquests of the eastern Mediterranean that would follow indeed mark a significant historical change.
