PowerPoint Slides

PART ONE: Incubations and Origins: The Ancient Period 500BCE-70CE

1. The Pre-History of Christian Thought
2. Jesus of Nazareth
3. The Apostle Paul: His Thought and Context
4. The Break from Judaism

PART TWO: Definition and Resistance: The Patristic Period 70-451

5. Persecution of Christians
6. Spirituality and Asceticism: Desert Fathers and Mothers
7. The Christian Apologists: Interacting with Gnosticism and Other “Heresies”
8. The Early Church Councils: Christological Controversy and Definition
9. Trinitarian Debate
10. Formation of the New Testament Canon
11. Augustine: Philosopher, Theologian, and Church Father

PART THREE: Establishment and Diversification: The Medieval Period  500-1500

12. Monasticism of the Early Middle Ages
13. Eastern Christianity Splits from the West
14. Anselm, Abelard, and Bernard
15. Islam and Judaism in the Middle Ages
16. Women and Theology in the Middle Ages
17. Thomas Aquinas
18. Preparation for Reform

PART FOUR: Protest and Revolution: The Reformation Period 1500-1700

19. Martin Luther
20. The Reformed Tradition
21. Protesting against the Protestants: Anabaptism and the Radical Reformation
22. Reformation Continues: The English and the Catholics

PART FIVE: Enlightenment and Evolution: The Modern Period 1700-2000

23. The Challenge of Modernism
24. Pietism and Revivalism
25. Romanticism’s Response to Enlightenment Theology
26. Neo-orthodoxy: Karl Barth and Others
27. Major Theological Traditions and Developments in the 20th Century
28. Conclusion: Recent and Emerging Themes