3 hours per week semester 2, annually
This subject surveys the major developments in the history of Christian Churches from 1550 to modern times; and promotes training in the use of primary documents. The major themes of reform and revolution are explored in the English Reformation; English Puritanism; Revolutionary learning; Change and Renewal: the Evangelical Awakening; Evangelicalism and social change; Liberalism and Fundamentalism; The Church Universal: Missions, Ecumenism; the Church under Communism; and the Church in Australia.
Classroom instruction and discussion; essay learning tasks
Nick Needham, 2000 Years of Christ’s Power, rev. edn (Fearn: Christian Focus, 2017).
Mark A. Noll, Turning Points, 3rd edn (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2012).
Training for the Kingdom of Heaven