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RELI286
Politics and Piety in Early Christianity
RELI286 SP
Crosslistings: MDST215
Photo Caption and Credits
Spring 97 Availability (Last Updated on Sat Mar 8 05:00:06 EST 1997
)
Section Limit Enrollment Available
01 20 17 3
An introduction to the political, social and religious world
of Christianity during the first three centuries of the
Common Era. Through lectures and discussion sessions, this
course will explore the controversy between emerging
"orthodoxy" and "heresy" and its propagandistic impact upon
the development of church organizations, interpretations of
sexuality and the roles of women, the rise of gnosticism and
the formation of the Christian Bible.
MAJOR READINGS
THE BIBLE (RSV)
P. Brown, THE BODY AND SOCIETY
Eusebius, THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH
R. Lane Fox, PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS
D.R. MacDonald, THE LEGEND OF THE APOSTLE
C.C.Richardson, EARLY CHRISTIAN PATHERS
R.Wilken, THE CHRISTIANS AS THE ROMANS SAW THEM
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Three papers (each 5-7 pages).
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
This course
fulfills a "Religion in Society" departmental requirement.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting
or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the
first class, they will be dropped from the class list.
NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form
to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level: UG Credit: 1.00
Prerequisites:
None
- Section 01
- Cameron, R
- Times: .T.T... 2:40PM;
- Grading Mode: A/F
- Registration Preference (1 high to 6 low, 0=Excluded) Sr: 1, Jr: 1, So: 2, Fr: 0
- Major Preference Given
Last Updated on MAR-10-1997
About the Photo:
No cap/ no copyright date (where's the book?)
Reference:
Smith, Jonathan Z, DRUDGERY AND THE DIVINE, ON
THE COMPARISONS OF EARLY CHRISTIANITIES
AND THE RELIGIONS OF LATE ANTIQUITY, Chicago:
The University of Chicago Press, ???.
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