Survey of Christian History #
Cantonese/Mandarin
粵語/華語
3 Credit Hours
3 學分
12-week online course
12周在線課程
About 4 hours of recorded video lectures and online interaction each week
每周約4小時的講座視頻和在線互動
Choice of Cantonese or Mandarin Video Lectures
自選粵語或華語視頻講座
Assignments may be submitted in Chinese or English
作業可以中文或英文提交
COURSE DESCRIPTION
課程簡介
This course presents an overview of the history of Christianity from Patristic period to the current age of Global Christianity with the purpose of providing insights into the past that will enhance the student’s growth in ministry leadership in the present and future.
綜觀基督教從初期教會發展到現在世界性宗教的歷史,透過了解過去,發展當前和未來的事工領導力。
COURSE OBJECTIVES
課程目的
Upon completion of this course the student as minister-leader-historian will be able to:
- Describe and explain basic events related to the general progression of the history of Christianity from its beginnings to the present.
- Give evidence of an understanding of the “Believers’ Church” tradition against the background of the historical development of various doctrines of the church throughout Christian history.
- Cite and discuss leadership qualities and characteristics evidenced in significant Christian leaders of the past.
- Appreciate the values and contributions of one’s own Christian tradition as well as those of other Christian groups and denominations.
- Function as a minister-leader-historian in interpreting for others insights from this period of the history of Christianity.
作為傳道人、事工領袖、和歷史學者,學員在完成本課程後將能夠:
- 描述和解釋與基督教歷史從開始到現在的總體發展有關的主要事件。
- 在整個基督教歷史當中,各種教義的發展史背景之上,對“信徒教會”傳統的理解提供證據。
- 列舉和討論歷史中基督教領袖所展現的質素。
- 明白自己所屬的基督教傳統以及其他基督教團體和教派的價值觀和歷史貢獻。
- 以傳道人、事工領袖、和歷史學者的眼光,觀察當代基督教。
REQUIRED TEXTBOOK
必備課本
陶理博士主編,李伯明、林牧野譯,《基督教二千年史:自第一世紀至當代》(香港:海天書樓, 2012)。
GRADING
評分
Online Participation: 25%
Set aside about three hours each week to watch video lectures and participate in online interaction.
Weekly Quizzes: 30%
These quizzes will cover the weekly lecture material and the assigned reading as determined by the instructor.
Mid-term and Final Examinations: 20%
The mid-term and final examinations will cover the lecture material and the assigned reading as determined by the instructor.
Term Paper and Video Report: 30%
Write a research paper according to the requirements as determined by the instructor and present a video report.
在線參與:20%
自選時間,觀看預先錄影的講座視頻和參與在線互動,每週約需要3小時。
每週小測驗:30%
這些小測驗將涵蓋講義材料和指導老師確定的指定閱讀材料。
期中及期末考試:20%
該測試將涵蓋講義材料和指導老師確定的指定閱讀材料。
論文及報告:30%
按照導師確定的要求撰寫研究論文,並提交視訊報告。
GRADING SCALE
評分等級
| A | A- | |
| 94-100 | 90-93 | |
| B+ | B | B- |
| 87-89 | 84-86 | 80-83 |
| C+ | C | C- |
| 77-79 | 74-76 | 70-73 |
| D+ | D | D- |
| 67-69 | 64-66 | 60-63 |
| F | ||
| 0-59 |
LECTURES AND ASSIGNMENTS
講座與作業
本課程為期 12 週。學生每週預留約4小時的時間,觀看錄影講座並參與線上互動。 作業包括每週小測驗、期中考試、期末考試和研究論文。
| Week 周 | Lecture 講座 | Reading 閱讀 | Assignment 作業 |
| 1 | Early Church I 初期教會I | 陶 1-54 | Quiz |
| 2 | Early Church II初期教會II | 陶55-136 | Quiz |
| 3 | Roman Church I羅馬國教時代I | 陶137-186 | Quiz |
| 4 | Roman Church II羅馬國教時代II | 陶 187-224 | Quiz |
| 5 | Medieval Church I中古時代I | 陶 225-259 | Quiz |
| 6 | Medieval Church II中古時代II | 陶 260-306 | Mid-term Exam |
| 7 | Reformation I宗教改革 I | 陶 351-387 | Quiz |
| 8 | Reformation II宗教改革 II | 陶388-434 | Quiz |
| 9 | 17th Century 十七世紀 | 陶435-465 | Quiz |
| 10 | 18th Century十八世紀 | 陶466-506 | Quiz |
| 11 | 19th Century十九世紀 | 陶507-580 | Quiz |
| 12 | 20th Century二十世紀 | 陶 581-671 | Final Exam Research Paper |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
精選參考書目
Available in Chinese:
- 祁伯爾著,李林靜芝譯,《歷史的軌跡: 二千年教會史 The Church in History》(台北:校園,2001)。
- 梁家麟著,《基督教會史略:改變教會的十人十事》(香港:更新資源,2018)。
- 胡斯托·岡薩雷斯著,趙城艺譯,《基督教史 The Story of Christianity》 (上海:三聯書店,2010)
- 胡斯托·岡薩雷斯著,胡宏志譯,《教會歷史 要點指南 Church History: An Essential Guide》(台灣:聖經資源中心,2011)
- 布鲁斯·雪莱著,刘平译,《基督教会史(第二版) Church History in Plain Language》 (北京:北京大学出版社,2004)
- 比爾·奧斯汀著,許建人、馬傑偉譯,《基督敎發展史 Topical History of Christianity》 (香港:種籽出版社,2002)
Additional Helpful Books for the Study of Church History
- Collections of Primary Sources
Baillie, John; McNeill, John T.; and VanDusen, Henry P., eds. The Library of Christian Classics. 26 vols. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1953-69.
Bettenson, Henry and Chris Maunder, eds. Documents of the Christian Church. 3d. ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1999.
McKinion, Steven A., ed. Life and Practice in the Early Church: A Documentary Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
Petry, Ray C., ed. A History of Christianity: Readings in the History of the Church, vol. 1: The Early and Medieval Church. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1981.
Schaff, Philip, ed. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. 1st series.14 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1956.
___________ and David Wace, eds. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. 2d series. 14 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1952.
- Surveys of Church History
Chadwick, Owen. A History of Christianity. New York: St. Martin Press, 1995
Christie-Murray, David. A History of Heresy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Comby, Jean. How to Read Church History, Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the fifteenth century. New York: Crossroad Publishing, 1989.
Gonzalez, Justo L. The Story of Christianity 2 vols. Revised and Updated ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.
Gonzalez, Justo L. Church History, An Essential Guide. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.
Latourette, Kenneth Scott. A History of Christianity, rev. ed. 2 vols. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
_____________________. A History of the Expansion of Christianity. 7 vols. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Press, 1970.
McManners, John, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Moffett, Samuel Hugh. A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol: Beginnings to 1500. San Franciso: Harper, 1991.
Neill, Stephen. Christian Missions (vol. 6 in The Pelican History of the Church). New York: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1964.
Noll, Mark. Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2000
Shelley, Bruce L. Church History in Plain Language. Waco: Word Books Publisher, 1995.
Tucker, Ruth A. And Walter Liefeld. Daughters of the Church: Women and Ministry from New Testament Times to the Present. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987.
Ware, Timothy. The Orthodox Church, new ed. London: Penguin Books, 1997.
Woodbridge, John and Frank A. James III. Church History, Volume Two: From Pre-Reformation to the Present Day: The Rise and Growth of the Church in Its Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Context. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013.
- Reformation
Bainton, R. H. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1977
Cameron, Euan. The European Reformation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991
Collinson, Patrick. The Elizabethan Puritan Movement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967
Dickens, A. G. The English Reformation. 2nd ed. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989.
Duffy, Eamon. The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
____________. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Durnbaugh, Donald. The Believers’ Church: The History and Character of Radical Protestantism. New York: the Macmillan Company, 1968.
Estep, W. R. The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism. 3rd ed.Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.
George, Timothy. Theology of the Reformers. Nashville: Broadman, 1998.
Hillerbrand, Hans J. The Division of Christendom: Christianity in the Sixteenth Century. Louisville, WJKP, 2009.
Jones, Norman L. The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. The Reformation: History. New York: Penguin Group, 2004.
McGrath, Alister E. A Life of John Calvin: A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.
________________. Reformation Thought: An Introduction, 1999.
Ozment, Steven E. The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.
Williams, George. H. The Radical Reformation, 3rd ed. Kirksville: Sixteenth Century Publishers, 1992.
Yarnell, Malcolm B. ed. The Anabaptists and Contemporary Baptists: Restoring New Testament Christianity. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2013
- History of Christian Doctrine
Bengt, Hagglund. History of Theology. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1968.
Gonzalez, Justo L. A History of Christian Thought. 3 vols. Nashville: Abingdon, 1975; rev. 1987.
Grenz, Stanley, and Roger Olson, 20th Century Theology: God and the World in a Transitional Age. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1992.
Henry, Patrick, ed. Schools of Through in the Christian Tradition. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984.
Holmes, Stephen R. Baptist Theology. New York: T & T Clark, 2012.
Kelly, J. N. D. Early Christian Doctrines. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1965.
McGrath, Alister E. Historical Theology: An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
Olson, Roger E. The Mosaic of Christian Belief: Twenty Centuries of Unity and Diversity. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2002.
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Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine. 5 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Tillich, Paul. A History of Christian Thought. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969
- Evangelicalism and World Christianity
Bebbington, D. W. Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980. London: Unwin Hyman Ltd, 1989.
Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
Moffett, Samuel Hugh. A History of Christianity in Asia. 2 vols. New Yoark: Orbis books, 1998, 2005.
Murray, Ian H. Evangelicalism Divided: A Record of Crucial Change in the Years 1950 to 2000. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2000.
Noll, Mark. The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2004.
Sanneh, Lamin. Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture. New York: Orbis Books, 1989.
Walls, Andrew. The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith. New York: Orbis Books, 1996.
- Online Sources
“Baptist” http://library.ggbts.edu/ResearchLinks/BaptistLinks.htm
“Church History” http://library.ggbts.edu/ResearchLinks/ChurchHistory.htm
“E- Resources” http://library.ggbts.edu/eresources.htm