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    Welcome
    14 July - 20 July
    Laidlaw Orientation at all Campuses
    Timetables and Textbooks (on the Laidlaw website)
    21 July - 27 July
    Module 1 Intro Video
    Module 1 Class Notes Part 1 - This is Our Story
    Module 1 Class Notes Part 2 - Why Did Christianity Expand?
    Module 1 Class Notes Part 3 - The Early Expansion of the Church
    Stuart Lange, on why study our story of Christian History
    Stuart Lange: Expansion of the Early Church
    Early Credal Statements
    Video: Lecture 1 (2022, SL)
    Video: Why History?
    Davidson - The World of Jesus' First Followers
    28 July - 3 August
    Module 2 Intro Video
    Module 2 Class Notes Part 1
    Module 2 Class Notes Part 2
    Module 2 Class Notes Part 3
    Video: Lecture 2 Part 2 (2022)
    Video: Lecture 2 Part 1 (2022)
    Video: Lecture 2 Part 3 (2022)
    Some Early Church primary documents
    Justin Martyr - Worship in the Early Church
    Hippolytus on Baptism
    The Didache
    3 Stuart Lange, The Apostolic Fathers
    4 Stuart Lange, Justin Martyr
    5 Stuart Lange, Tertullian
    7 Stuart Lange, When Blood Flows
    Guy, Suffering and Dying for God
    Nero's Spectacular Massacre
    Pliny's Dilemma
    The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas - Abbreviated
    Lesson 2
    Churchill: Justin's Account of Coming to Faith
    Reading: summary accounts of various martyrdoms
    Reading: Cyprian's Letter to Banished Christians
    4 August - 10 August
    Module 3 Intro Video
    Module 3 Class Notes Part 1
    Module 3 Class Notes Part 2
    Module 3 Class Notes Part 3
    Video: Lecture 3 Part 1 (2022)
    Video: Lecture 3 Part 3 (2022)
    Video: Lecture 3 Part 2 (2022)
    6 Stuart Lange, Apostolic Gospel versus Gnosis
    Video: Irenaeus and the Fight Against Gnosticism
    9 Stuart Lange, Is Jesus God?
    Noll - Council of Nicea
    Creeds of Nicea
    8 Stuart Lange, The Constantinian Revolution
    Controversial Constantine
    The Edict of Milan
    DL Tutorial 1
    Lesson 3 (DL)
    Video: The Battle of Constantine
    Shelley - The Church Comes to Power
    Shelley - Splitting Important Hairs
    11 August - 17 August
    Module 4 Intro Video
    308 Tutorial 1
    18 August - 24 August
    Module 5 Intro Video
    Video: Lecture 4 Part 1 (2022)
    Video: Lecture 4 Part 2 (2022)
    Module 5 Class Notes Part 1 - The Rise of Christian Monasticism
    Module 5 Class Notes Part 2 - Communal Monasticism
    Module 5 Class Notes Part 3 - Augustine
    Stuart Lange article Monasticism
    Reading: The Best That Ever Was (On Anthony)
    11 Stuart Lange, Augustine
    The Rule of St Benedict - Excerpts
    Reading: The Celtic Way: From Patrick to Cuthbert
    Reading: Culture Clash
    R2 - Monasticism
    Lesson 4
    Reading: Augustine's Account of His Conversion
    Video: The Significance of Augustine
    Bruce Shelley chapter Rise of the Papacy
    Gonzalez - Theological Activity: Scholasticism
    25 August - 31 August
    Module 6 Intro Video
    Video: Lecture 5 Part 1 (2022)
    Video: Lecture 5 Part 2 (2022)
    Zoom link for this week's class
    Module 6 Class Notes Part 1 - The Expansion of Christianity in the West
    Module 6 Class Notes Part 2 - The Papacy
    Module 6 Class Notes Part 3 - The Eastern (Catholic) Christianity and the Crusades
    Animated Map
    Gonzalez and barbarian invasions
    Gonzalez - The End of an Era
    Charlemagne, Monasticism and education in the West
    How the West was won. Stuart Lange article.
    Stuart Lange article Why the Papacy
    Reading Eastern Orthodox, Did you Know?
    Molloy - The Church of the East
    Reading, Icons are not idols
    Molloy - Eastern Christianity Expands
    Jenkins - The Great Tribulation
    Mark Noll, The Great Schism
    The Great Schism - article by Stuart Lange
    Video Crash course in history - Islam
    The Crusades - article by Stuart Lange
    Reading, The children's crusade
    Reading, How could Christians do this?
    Fighting Monks
    Lesson 5 (DL)
    Hill - The Coming of Islam
    Jenkins - Landscapes
    (2020) Power point slides: Eastern church, Great Schism and the Crusades
    1 September - 7 September
    Module 7 Intro Video
    Video: Lecture 6 Part 1 (2022)
    Video: Lecture 6 Part 2 (2022)
    Module 7 Class Notes Part 1 - Monastic Reform
    Module 7 Class Notes Part 2 - Medieval Scholastics and Theologians
    Module 7 Class Notes Part 3 - The Lead-up to the Reformation
    Bernard of Clairvaux - Search for a Holy Life
    8 September - 14 September
    Module 8 Intro Video
    Module 8 Class Notes Part 1 - Luther's Context
    Module 8 Class Notes Part 2 - Luther's Reforms
    Module 8 Class Notes Part 3 - Luther's Rejection and Later Life
    Video: Lecture 7 Part 1 (2022)
    Video: Lecture 7 Part 2 (2022)
    24 Stuart Lange, The Reformation and Martin Luther
    Reading: Dr Luther's theology
    Reading: Zwingli and Luther, the Giant vs Hercules
    Woodbridge: Ulrich Zwingli
    Lesson 6
    15 September - 21 September
    Module 9 Intro Video
    Video: Lecture 8 Part 1 (2022)
    Video: Lecture 8 Part 2 (2022)
    Video: Lecture 8 Part 3 (2022)
    Module 9 Class Notes Part 1 - John Calvin and the Reformation
    Module 9 Class Notes Part 2 - A Survey of Calvin's Theology
    Module 9 Class Notes Part 3 - The Anabaptists
    2022 Student Notes (8). Reforming Church: Calvin; Anabaptists (Stuart Lange)
    Gonzalez - The Radical and Catholic Reformations
    The Schleitheim Confession 1527
    Video: Reformation overview 5 - Anabaptists
    Lesson 7
    Reading: John Calvin (1509-64)
    Reading: Protestant Debates: Calvinism and Arminianism
    Video: Reformation Overview 5 The Anabaptists
    Gonzalez - The Later Anabaptists
    29 September - 5 October
    DL Tutorial 2
    6 October - 12 October
    Module 10 Intro Video
    Video: Lecture 9 Part 1 (2022)
    Video: Lecture 9 Part 2 (2022)
    Video: Lecture 9 Part 3 (2022)
    Module 10 Class Notes Part 1 - Anglicanism
    Module 10 Class Notes Part 2 - Protestant Denominations
    Module 10 Class Notes Part 3 - Catholic Reform
    Video Henry VIII and the Church
    Reading Thomas Cranmer Genius behind Anglicanism
    The First Admonition to Parliament - 1572
    Cranmer's preface to the Great Bible
    Video Battle for the Bible
    Bruce Shelley The Rule of the Saints
    Reading Ignatius of Loyola
    The Spiritual Exercises - Ignatius Loyola
    The Council of Trent
    PPT slides Anglicanism and Catholic Reform (2020)
    Video: An Excerpt from the Film Black Robe
    Gonzalez - The Puritan Revolution
    Video: Why did you Join the Jesuits?
    Video: What's the Jesuit Mission?
    13 October - 19 October
    Module 11 Intro Video
    Module 11 Class Notes (Directed Study) - The Enlightenment and Development of Modern Thought
    2022 Student Notes. The Enlightenment (Stuart Lange)
    Enlightenment - Interview with Dr Martin Sutherland
    Video: Enlightenment - History.com
    Video: French Revolution - History.com
    Hill - The West After the Enlightenment
    DL Lesson 8
    20 October - 26 October
    Module 12 Intro Video
    Video: Lecture 10 Part 1 (2022)
    Video: Lecture 10 Part 2 (2022)
    Module 12 Class Notes Part 1 - The Rise of Evangelicalism
    Module 12 Class Notes Part 2 - The Great Awakening and Evangelicalism in England
    Module 12 Class Notes Part 3 - Revivals in England and America
    Reading Molland - Moravians
    Video: The Moravians - 100 Year Prayer Meeting
    Reading: Moravian Glossary
    John Wesleys Journal - Visit to the Moravians
    Video: Moravians: Missionaries and prayer warriors
    Video: Hymn 'And Can it Be' by Charles Wesley
    Wesley: Rules for Band Societies
    Wesley: Christian Perfection as the goal of Salvation
    Readings: George Whitfield
    Reading: George Whitfield
    Reading: Charley G. Finney - Father of American Revivalism
    Readings: Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening
    Reading: Revival at Cane Ridge
    Reading: Charles G. Finney - Prototype of the Modern Evangelist
    The Methods of the Clapham Sect
    Video: Understanding the Clapham sect - Roshan Allpress
    Video: The Story of William Wilberforce
    Video: Trailer for Amazing Grace
    Let us Make Reparation to Africa - Wilberforce's Abolition Speech 1789
    Hill - The Social Challenge
    Reading: The General - William Booth
    Reading: The Life and Times of D.L Moody
    Reading - The Army Mother
    Hannah More - Cheap Repository Tract - The Waterman
    Lesson 9
    Video: Fundamentalism
    27 October - 2 November
    Module 13 Intro Video
    Video: Lecture 11 Part 1 (2022)
    Video: Lecture 11 Part 2 (2022)
    Module 13 Class Notes Part 1 - To the Ends of the Earth
    Module 13 Class Notes Part 2 - William Carey
    Module 13 Class Notes Part 3 - Other Notable Missionary Pioneers
    Reading: The Man who wouldn't give up
    Reading: Push Inward
    Tucker: David Livingstone
    Daughrity: Asian Christianity
    Reading: Anatomy of an explosion
    The Serampore Agreement 1806
    R4 - Hill - Early Mission
    Hill - The Age of Colonialism
    3 November - 9 November
    Module 14 Intro Video
    Te Rongopai - historical documentary film by Dr Stuart Lange (personal copies available from nzcn.org.nz/resources, in digital or DVD format)
    Module 14 Class Notes Part 1 - Christianity in Asia
    Module 14 Class Notes Part 2 - Christianity in Oceania and Aotearoa New Zealand
    Reading: Bringing peace to Paradise
    Reading: A Battle won Tahiti for Christ
    Reading: Hilliard - Christianity in the Pacific Islands
    Readings: John Hitchen: Methodologies for mission
    Reading: Stanley - Christianity and Civilisation
    Video: The Shape of the Pacific Church today
    Video: Chapter One of Te Rongopai
    Video: Chapter Two of Te Rongopai
    Video: Chapter Three of Te Rongopai
    Video: Chapter Four of Te Rongopai
    Video: Chapter Five of Te Rongopai
    Video: Interview of Dr Stuart Lange, re Early Maori Christianity
    Video: Nga Timatanga the early story of the Bible in New Zealand
    Reading Hamilton - Henry Williams - Missionary Leader
    Reading: Henry Williams - Description of Evening Prayers
    Video: Tarores Story
    Reading: William Williams complains that the Treaty is not honoured
    Reading: Caught between the Mere and the musket
    Reading: Newman Trick or Treaty
    Reading: Newman Lantern at the Crossroads
    Reading: The Religious Climate of the Colony - NZ
    Reading: Ian Breward (Australian Christianity)
    Hill - the Age of Colonialism
    Reading: Pushing Inward
    Daughrity - Asian Christianity
    Video: Four Reasons for the Expansion of Christianity in the Pacific
    Hilliard - Australasia and the Pacific
    10 November - 16 November
    Module 15 Intro Video
    Video: Final lecture S2 2024 Part 1
    Video: Final lecture S2 2024 Part 2
    Video: Final lecture S2 2024 Part 3
    Module 15 Class Notes Part 1 - Movements of Thought in the Twentieth Century
    Module 15 Class Notes Part 2 - More Movements of Thought
    Module 15 Class Notes Part 3 - Course Summary
    Roman Catholic Reform
    The Story Behind the Azuza Street Revival
    Vatican II - Excerpts
    Lesson 12
    Reading: American Pentecost
    Synan - Pentecostal Roots
    Video: Aimee Semple McPherson - The Power of Faith
    Synan - The Welsh Revival
    Video: What was Vatican II?
    Video: Pentecostalism Comes to New Zealand
    Video: The Lausanne Covenant
    Davidson - Bringing the Churches Together
    Reading: Identity, History, and the Evangelical Landscape in New Zealand
    Course Information
    Announcements
    Introductions
    Student questions and issues
    308.515 Course Outline
    308.515 Course Assessment and Delivery Outline S2 2025
    Timetables and Textbooks (on the Laidlaw website)
    Checking for inadvertent plagiarism - test through Turnitin
    How to access and interpret Turnitin score and feedback
    SBL referencing guides
    Laidlaw's General Regulations
    Instructions for accessing library eBooks
    Requesting a Book from Henderson - Distance Students
    How to access Proquest and EBSCO databases
    (1) 1st assignment EXPLANATIONS
    (2) Tacitus on the persecution of Christians at Rome under Nero
    (3) Pliny to the Emperor Trajan (and Trajans reply)
    (4) The Persecution Martyrdoms at Lyons (177)
    (5) Luther-ChristianNobility
    (6) Schleitheim Confession (Anabaptists)
    Mid-Semester Course Evaluation
    End of Semester Course Evaluation
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