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Academic Year 2005/2006
Classic Christian Texts
HIST 206 SP
This course is designed to provide students, most of whom will have no background in this subject, with a solid grounding in some of the most influential texts of the Christian tradition, both Catholic and Protestant.
This
training is intended to make the students better readers in Western Humanities and Social Sciences.
MAJOR READINGS
Readings will include the following:
THE BIBLE, KING JAMES VERSION; APOCRYPHA
And also readings from the following:
Origen, Augustine, Bede, Benedict, Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventura, Thomas Aquinas,
Johannes Eckhart, Thomas a Kempis,
Julian of Norwich, Erasmus, Martin Luther, Ignatius of Loyola, John Calvin, John Foxe, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Jacobus Arminius, John Donne, John Milton, Blaise Pascal, John Bunyan, Jeanne Marie Guyon,
Fenelon, Samuel Rutherford, Jonathan Edwa
rds, John Wesley, Soren Kierkegaard, George MacDonald, James Hudson Taylor and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Reading notes; 3 papers; midterm and final examinations.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA HIST
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-30-2006
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