History of Christianity I

3 credits · Divinity School

This course introduces the origins, spread, and diversity of Christian movements in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Students will be introduced to the cultural, social, political, religious, and intellectual contexts in which Christian communities formed in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Asia. Students will study primary sources to investigate questions of doctrine and practice, religion and politics, the creation of institutions, and varieties of Christian experience and identity within a wider context of pre-modern global history. This is the first of the two-course sequence in the History of Christianity. [3]