• Intro - Why Study Church History?
• Some Other Things You Should Know Before We Begin

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• Where Do We Begin?
• Christian Faith Grounded in History
• Palestine - Birthplace of the Christian Church
• Judaism in Palestine

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• Diaspora Judaism
• The Greco-Roman World
• Pliny the Younger Writing to the Emperor Trajan

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• The Roman Empire
• Early Roman Political History
• The Roman Economy
• Roman Intellectual Culture

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• Roman Traditional Pagan Religion
• Roman Emperor Worship
• The Eastern Mystery Cults
• Philosophy in the Roman Empire (Introduction)

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• Philosophy in the Roman Empire
• Platonism
• Epicureanism
• Stoicism
• Cynicism
• From Jerusalem to the Ends of the Earth (Intro)

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• From Jerusalem to the Ends of the Earth

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• The Apostle Paul
• The Decline of Judaism

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• The Apostles: Facts and Legends

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• First Conflicts With the State
• Persecution Under Nero

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• Reasons for Christian Persecution

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• The Apostolic Fathers
• Clement of Rome’s Letter to the Corinthians
• Overview of the Purpose and Content of the Letter

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• The Apostolic Fathers (continued)
• Clement of Rome’s Letter to the Corinthians (continued)
• Some Excerpts from the Letter
• 1 Clement is Steeped in Both OT and NT Scripture
• 1 Clement Shows Rome Had a Sound Ecclesiology
• 1 Clement Shows Rome Had a Sound Theology

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• The Apostolic Fathers (continued)
• The Didache

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• The Apostolic Fathers (continued)
• The Didache - Part 2

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• The Apostolic Fathers (continued)
• The Letter to Diognetus

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• The Apostolic Fathers (continued)
• The Letter of Barnabas

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• The Apostolic Fathers (continued)
• Ignatius of Antioch

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• The Apostolic Fathers (continued)
• Polycarp

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• The Apostolic Fathers (continued)
• Review of Previously Covered Apostolic Fathers
• Papias
• Shepherd of Hermas
• Worship in the Early Church

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• Worship in the Early Church (continued)
• Description of a Typical Early Church Worship Service
• Some Surprising Things About Worship in the Early Church
• The Use of Liturgy in the Early Church
• Early Church Annual Calendar
• The Agape (Love) Feast

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• Gnosticism

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• Marcion
• The Gnostic Gospels

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• The Origins of Christmas
• The Origin of the Christmas Tree
• The Origin Santa Clause
• Other Christmas Symbols

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• The Second Century Apologists
• Introduction
• Quadratus and Aristides

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• The Second Century Apologists (continued)
• Justin Martyr
• Tratian: Justin Martyr’s Student

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• The Second Century Apologists (continued)
• Tertullian
• Introduction
• On the Relationship Between Christianity and the Roman Empire
• Defense of Orthodoxy Against Heresy
• On the Moral Behavior of Christians

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• Montanism
• Introduction
• Prophetic Utterances
• Ecstatic Experiences
• Apocalyptic Fervor
• Conclusion

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• The Second Century Apologists (continued)
• Melito of Sardis
• Melito of Sardis
• Excerpt from On Faith by Melito of Sardis
• Excerpt from a Passover Sermon by Melito of Sardis
• Irenaeus of Lyons
• Irenaeus of Lyons
• Irenaeus’ Arguments Against Gnosticism

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• The Second Century Apologists (continued)
• Irenaeus of Lyons (Continued)
• Effects of Irenaeus’ Response to Gnosticism
  • The Basic Teachings of the Apostles
    • The Apostles’ Creed
  • The Churches Founded by the Apostles
  • The Inspired Writings of the Apostles
• The Catholic Church
• Irenaeus and the Quartodeciman Controversy

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• A Further Look at Christian Persecution
• A Summary of Christian Persecution AD 30 – 313
• Martyrdom at Lyons in AD 177

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• Response to Christian Persecution
• Response to Persecution
• Schism in Rome
• Schism In North Africa
• Some Questions to Ponder

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• Historical Overview of Christian Persecution
• Map of Worldwide Persecution in 2018
• Travel Back to 1620s with the Pilgrims in New Plymouth Colony, MA
• Foxes Book of Martyrs
• How a Christian should be influenced by study of the Persecuted Church
• Brings us to terms with the realities of Christian persecution
• Confronts us with the relevance of Protestant thinking and its foundations in the Gospel
• Gives us a greater appreciation for, and conviction to defend, the dissemination of God’s Word.
• Prepares us to better endure and/or respond to contemporary trials
• Fast forward to Today

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• The Third Century Church Fathers
• The Church in Alexandria
• Clement of Alexandria

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• Class Survey Results
• The Third Century Church Fathers (Continued)
• The Church in Alexandria (Continued)
• Origen

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• The Third Century Church Fathers (Continued)
• Hippolytus of Rome
• Cyprian of Carthage

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• The Development of Monasticism
• Monks Who Lived Alone as Hermits
• Monks Who Lived in a Community of Monks
• Asceticism and Celibacy
• The Influence of Monasticism
• Later Thoughts About Monasticism

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• The Emperor Constantine
• Was Constantine a Genuine Christian?
• Constantine Conquers the East
• Constantine and Sacralism

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• The Council of Nicaea
• Background to the Council of Nicaea
• The Participants and Their Views
• The Decision and the Creed

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• The Rise of Arianism After Nicaea
• Athanasius Against the World

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• Arian Domination After Nicaea
• The Cappadocian Fathers
• The Council of Constantinople

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• Ambrose of Milan
• John Chrysostom

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• Church Teaching, Organization and Worship in the Fourth Century
• Scripture and Tradition
• Church Organization
• Church Worship

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• Baptism in the Early Church
• Description of a 4th Century Baptismal Ceremony
• 4th Century Teaching on Baptism
• Early Church Teaching on the Atonement

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• Augustine
• Augustine’s Early Years and Conversion
• Augustine’s Theology and Historical Influence
• Augustine and Donatism

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• Augustine (Part 2)
• Augustine and Pelagianism
• Augustine and The City of God

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• Jerome
• Jerome’s Early Years
• Jerome and the Latin Vulgate
• Jerome and the OT Apocrypha
• Jerome’s Last Days

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• The Council of Chalcedon
• Lead up to the Council of Chalcedon
• The Council of Chalcedon
• Council of Chalcedon Definition of Faith

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• Beyond the Borders of the Empire
• The Early History of Christianity in the East

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• The Fall of Rome

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• Saint Patrick
• Columba
• Columbanus

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• The Early Church - Overview
• First Century
• Second Century
• Third Century
• Fourth Century
• Fifth Century
• Sixth Century
• Major Periods of Church History
• The Medieval Church
• Brief Overview of the Middle Ages

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• Gregory the Great
• Gregory as Political Leader
• Gregory as Church Leader
• Gregory’s Theology
• Fourth Century
• The Influence of Gregory on Church Worship
• Gregory’s Writings

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• The Celtic Church and the Conversion of the English
• The Conversion of the English
• The Celtic Church
• The Merging of Celts and Catholics
• The Venerable Bede

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• The Rise of Islam
• The Basic Teachings of Islam

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• Other Interesting Facts About Islam
• The Kaaba and the Black Stone
• The Seriousness of Committing Shirk
• The Hadith of the Man Who Killed 99 Men
• Meccan Surahs Versus Medinan Surahs
• Stories of Muhammed’s Later Marriages
• Muhammed’s Successors

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• Islamic Conquests
• Islamic Dissention

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• Life for the Church Under Islamic Rule
• Great Christian Thinkers under Islamic Rule
• Christianity and Islam in Spain
• Christian Attempts to Evangelize Muslims
• Christian Apologists to Islam
• Attitudes Towards Islam in the West

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• Turning the Muslim's Argument Against Them

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• The Frankish Monarchs
• The Eighth Century English Missionaries

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• Charlemagne
• Charlemagne’s Military Campaigns
• Charlemagne Emperor of the Romans
• Charlemagne and Christian Culture

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• Charlemagne
• Charlemagne’s Religious Policy
• The Collapse of the Empire

• Invaders
• The Norsemen are Coming!
• The Hungarian Invasion

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• Gottschalk of Orbais
• Radbertus, Ratramnus, and the Communion Controversy

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• Medieval Monasteries
• Medieval Nunneries

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• Corruption in the Medieval Church
• Corruption in the Papacy
• Attempts at Reform in the Medieval Church

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• Pope Hildebrand (Gregory VII)
• Pope Innocent III

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• The Byzantine Empire
• Worship in the Eastern Church
• "Holy Russia" - Orthodoxy Among the Slavs

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• The Iconoclast Controversy
• The East West Schism of 1054
• Rivalry Between Rome and Constantinople
• Differences in Religious Practice
• Theological Differences

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• The Final Split Between East and West
• The Crusades
• What Were the Crusades?
• The Causes of the Crusades

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• The History of the Crusades
• The First Crusade, 1096-99
• The Second Crusade, 1147-49

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• The History of the Crusades
• The Third Crusade, 1096-99
• The Fourth Crusade, 1147-49
• The Children’s Crusade
• Other Crusades
• The Results of the Crusades

• Christian Relics
• What are Relics?
• Relics in the Early Church
• Biblical Passages Cited
• Modern Examples

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• Christmas Special
• Christmas Music in the Early Church
• Good King Wenceslas
• Christmas Music in the Middle Ages
• Wassail!

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• The Rise of Universities
• The Rise of Scholasticism

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• Philosophy and the Writings of Aristotle
• Great Scholastic Theologians
• Anselm of Canterbury

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• Great Scholastic Theologians (Continued)
• Peter Abelard
• Peter Lombard
• Thomas Aquinas

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• Great Scholastic Theologians (Continued)
• Thomas Aquinas
• Summa Theologiae
• Theology of Thomas Aquinas
• Proofs for the Existence of God
• Our Knowledge of God is Through Analogy
• Aquinas on Transubstantiation

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• Great Scholastic Theologians (Continued)
• John Duns Scotus
• William of Ockham

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• The Rise of Musical Instruments in Worship
• The Waldensians

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• The Albigensian Crusade
• Saint Francis of Assisi

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• The Inquisition
• The Spanish Inquisition

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• Saint Dominic and the Dominicans
• The Carmelites and Augustinians
• The Singing Nun

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• Missionary Expansion
• The Great Plague

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• The "Babylonian Captivity" of the Papacy
• The Western Schism

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• The Medieval Mystics
• Dante and the Divine Comedy

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• The Hundred Years War
• Joan of Arc
• Medieval Family Life
• Consent in Marriage
• Influences on Marriage Practices
• Monogamy
• Extension of Church Control
• Sex in Marriage
• Childbirth and Baptism
• Childhood Responsibilities
• Preparation for Adulthood

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• Major Periods of Church History
• The Early Church
• The Persecuted Church
• The Imperially Sanctioned Church
• The Medieval Church
• The Early Middle Ages
• The High Middle Ages
• The Late Middle Ages
• John Wycliffe

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• John Huss
• The Hussites Fight Back

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• Events That Laid the Groundwork for the Reformation
• The Renaissance
• Humanism
• Ad fontes! The Revival of Antiquity
• The Invention of the Printing Press
• Awareness of Manuscript Corruption
• Questioning Textual Authenticity
• A New Vision of Reality
• Renaissance Geniuses

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• Desiderius Erasmus
• Erasmus’ Criticisms of Catholic Europe
• Erasmus on Scholastic Theology
• Erasmus on External Religion
• Erasmus on the Clergy, Monks, and the Papacy
• Excerpt from Erasmus’s Julius Excluded from Heaven
• Erasmus’ Suggested Remedies
• Erasmus on Moral Reform
• Erasmus on Cultural Reform
• Erasmus on Scriptural Reform
• Erasmus’ Influence on the Reformation

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• Erasmus’ Novum Instrumentum
• The First Edition (1516)
• The Second Edition (1519)
• The Third Edition (1522)
• The Fourth Edition (1527)
• The Final Edition (1535)
• The Reformation
• A Wild Boar in the Vineyard
• Martin Luther
• Young Luther

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• Martin Luther (continued)
• Luther Becomes a Monk
• Luther’s Coworkers at Whittenburg

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• Martin Luther (continued)
• Luther’s 95 Theses

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• Martin Luther (continued)
• Sola Scriptura
• Charles V
• Diet of Worms

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• Martin Luther (continued)
• Luther as Heretic and Outlaw
• The Dawn of the Radical Reformation
• The Peasant’s Revolt of 1525

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• Martin Luther (continued)
• Luther Gets Married
• Erasmus versus Luther
• The Augsburg Confession
• Lutheran Worship

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• Martin Luther (continued)
• Lutheran Worship (Continued)
• Luther's View on Monasteries
• Luther’s Lasting Influence
• Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation

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• Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation (continued)
• Zwingli Breaks with Rome
• The Marburg Colloquy

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• The Radical Reformation
• Zwingli and the Radical Reformers

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• The Radical Reformation
• The Schleitheim Confession
• Anabaptist Rejection of Augustinian Theology
• Anabaptist Distinction Between Church and Society

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• The Radical Reformation
• Anabaptist Separation of Church and State
• Anabaptist Baptism

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• The Radical Reformation
• The Martyrdom of Michael Sattler

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• The Radical Reformation
• The Münster Rebellion

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• The Radical Reformation
• Menno Simons
• Menno Began to Preach Against Violence
• Menno Preached Against Spiritualism
• Menno Differed With Both Catholics and Reformers
• Menno’s Views on Sola Scriptura
• Menno’s Disputes With Other Anabaptists

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• The Radical Reformation
• Jacob Hutter and the Hutterites
• Our Modern Anabaptist Heritage
• Martin Bucer

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• John Calvin
• 1509-1535 - The Young John Calvin
• 1536 - Institutes of the Christian Religion

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• John Calvin (Continued)
• John Calvin’s Theology
• John Calvin’s View of the Gospel
• John Calvin’s View of the Church
• John Calvin’s View of Communion

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• John Calvin (Continued)
• Calvin the Reformer of Geneva 1536-1538
• Calvin at Strasbourg

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• John Calvin (Continued)
• Calvin Returns to Geneva 1541-64
• Calvin and Servetus

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• John Calvin (Continued)
• Summary of Calvin’s Achievements
• John Calvin Sermon (Read by Bob Connolly as Calvin)

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• The English Reformation
• The Dawn of the English Reformation
• William Tyndale
• Henry VIII and England’s Quarrel with Rome

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• The English Reformation
(Continued)
• Paul Loyd on William Tyndale

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• The English Reformation (Continued)
• Thomas Cromwell
• Edward VI: The Young Josiah

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• The English Reformation (Continued)
• Bloody Mary
• Queen Elizabeth I

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• The Scottish Reformation

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• The Scottish Reformation
• John Knox Returns to Scotland
• Mary Queen of Scotts Returns

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• Christmas Special - Tudor Christmas Traditions
• Christmas in the Early Church
• The Reformer’s View of Christmas
• Tudor Christmas Traditions
• The Twelve Days of Christmas
• Father Christmas
• The “Kissing Bough”
• Mince Pies
• Tudor Christmas Pie
• Wassail!
• Caroling
• Holy Innocents’ Day
• The Coventry Carol

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• The Catholic Counter-Reformation
• The Catholic Evangelicals
• Ignatius Loyola

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• The Catholic Counter-Reformation (Continued)
• Ignatius Loyola and the Jesuits

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• The Catholic Counter-Reformation (Continued)
• The Council of Trent
• Roman Catholic Expansion Outside Europe

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• The Catholic Counter-Reformation (Continued)
• Effects of the Catholic Counter-Reformation
• Theodore Beza
• Johannes Cocceius

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• King James
• King James and the English Protestants
• The King James Bible

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• King James
• The Gunpowder Plot
  • Guy Fawkes Masks
• The Virginia Company
• Other Accomplishments

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• Pilgrims Come to America
• The Origin of the Five Points of Calvinism
• James Arminius
• The “Five Points” of Arminianism
• The Synod of Dort
• The Five Points of Calvinism

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• The Thirty Years War

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• High Level Overview of Church History
• Major Periods of Church History
• The Early Church - Overview
• The Persecuted Church
• The Imperially Sanctioned Church
• The Medieval Church
• The Reformation
• The Modern Church

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• Puritanism
• Westminster Confession
• Oliver Cromwell

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• The Birth of Christian Denominations
• The Age of Reason

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• The Enlightenment
• The Wonder of the World Machine
• John Gerstner on the Enlightenment

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• The Enlightenment
• John Butler - Countering the Claims of Deism
• Enlightenment Influence on Politics
• Thomas Hobbs
• John Locke

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• A Comparison of the American and French Revolutions

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• The First Great Awakening

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• The Second Great Awakening
• Introduction
• Lorenzo Dow
• Revivals on the Frontier
• Social Reform
• The Influence of Charles Finney
• Women and the Second Great Awakening

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• Nonconformist Sects from “Burned Over” District in New York
• Mormonism
• Adventism
• Seventh Day Adventism
• Jehovah Witnesses

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• Offbeat Nonconformist Sects from “Burned Over” District in New York
• The Fox Sisters
• The Shakers
• The Oneida Society
• Unitarianism

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• Great Men in Christian History
• John Bunyan
• Jonathan Edwards

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• Great Men in Christian History
• John Newton
• William Wilberforce

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• Great Men in Christian History
• John Owen
• Richard Baxter
• George Fox

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• Great Men in Christian History
• John Nelson Darby
• Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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• Great Men in Christian History
• Wit and Wisdom of Spurgeon
• C.S. Lewis

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• Great Men in Christian History
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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• Great Musicians/Poets in Christian History
• Isaac Watts
• J.S. Bach

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• Great Musicians/Poets in Christian History
• George Frideric Handel
• Charles Wesley

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• Great Musicians/Poets in Christian History
• Fanny J. Crosby

• Great Missionaries in Christian History
• William Carey

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• Great Missionaries in Christian History
• Adoniram and Ann Judson

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• Great Missionaries in Christian History
• John G. Paton

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• Great Missionaries in Christian History
• Hudson Taylor

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• Great Missionaries in Christian History
• Jim Elliot

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• Significant Movements in Modern Church History
• Pentecostalism and the Charismatic Movement

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• Significant Movements in Modern Church History
• The Social Gospel
• Liberation Theology

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• Significant Movements in Modern Church History
• Feminism

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• Significant Movements in Modern Church History
• Communism

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• Significant Movements in Modern Church History
• The Civil War

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• Significant Movements in Modern Church History
• World Wars One and Two

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• Significant Movements in Modern Church History
• Belief in Millions of Years

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• High Level Overview of Church History
• Major Periods of Church History
• The Early Church - Overview
• The Persecuted Church
• The Imperially Sanctioned Church
• The Medieval Church
• The Reformation
• The Modern Church
• Five Men the Lord Used to Preserve His Church
• The Emperor Constantine
• Athanasius Against the World
• Augustine of Hippo
• Charles Martel (“The Hammer”)
• Martin Luther

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