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COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course covers Christian origins, the rise and growth of the church in its cultural, intellectual and political context. It covers the controversies, Christian apologetics, the persecutions of the church, the martyrdom to the era of Constantine I and the creedal formulations. It captures the major turning points in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox history and fills in accounts of conversion and confrontation in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Finally, it introduces the students to monks and crusaders, heretics and reformers, popes and abolitionists, and discovers Christianity’s essential role in shaping human history and the intimate lives of men and women.