G.  Proposed schedule (subject to change!)

Week	Read:	Tuesday	Thursday	Friday Precepts	Other recommended readings
1: Sept. 5-9		Introduction to the course	The early Christian communities among Jews and pagans	The persecution of the early church (G 5-6, distributed texts)	IS 3-4
2: 12-16	G 1-7	The shape of Christian life (with special reference to the “Apostolic Fathers”)	The Apologists of the second century	“Gnosticism and Its Opponents” P 1 (from here on, paper due every week)	IS 5-8
3: 19-23	G 8-9	“Orthodoxy” and “heresy”	How do we make sense of Scripture?	“Apologists …” P 2	IS 11-13
4: 26-30	G 10-14	A faith for the world? The growth of the Church	Constantine and the develop-ment of the imperial church	Rodney Stark, The Rise of Christianity	IS 9-10
5: Oct. 3-7	G 15-16	To the desert!	SEMINARY DAY OF SERVICE	Holy men and women Texts to be distributed	IS 14-15
6: 10-14	G 17-20	The Nicene-Constantinopolitan accomplishment	Not just west and north, but east and south: Syriac, Coptic and Ethiopic Christianity	The Trinitarian Controversy P 3, pp. 48-62 plus handout	IS 16, 18-19
7: 17-21	G 27	READING DAY	How shall we speak of Christ? Constantinople à Chalcedon	The Christological Controversies P 3, pp. 63-75	IS 17
8: 24-28	G 21-24	East and West: Ambrose and Chrysostom; Jerome	Augustine	“Augustine” P 5	V1 IS 20
9: Oct. 31 – Nov. 4	G 25-26 RB1980	A “new world order” in the West: Benedict, Gregory the Great	Penitential system; the cult of the saints, relics and pilgrimages	“The Early Middle Ages” P 6	V2 IS 26
10: Nov. 7-11	G 27	Eastern Church history: by schisms rent asunder (Chalcedon to the rise of Islam)	Iconoclasm; roots of East/West divisions	The rise of Islam Texts to be distributed	P 4, pp. 84-93 V3 IS 21-24 (25), 28
11: 14-18	G 28-30	Decay and renewal in the West: Cluny and the Gregorian reforms	The West’s encounter with Islam: Crusade, Reconquista and Arabic learning	“The High Middle Ages” P 7, pp. 144-151 plus handout from Bernard of Clairvaux	V4-5 IS 27, 29-31
Thanks-	giving:	Rest and	give	thanks!
12: Nov. 28 – Dec. 2	G 31	Franciscans and Dominicans; mystical visions	Intellectual renewal: scholasticism	“The High Middle Ages” P 7, pp. 151-170	V6-7 IS 32-33 (34-36)
13: Dec. 5-9	G 32-33	War, plague and schism; their reflections in piety and art	Late medieval theology: How are human beings saved?	“The Late Middle Ages” P 8	V8 IS 37 (38)
14: 12-15	G 33	Conciliarism, reform and the papacy	Postscript: Reading Christian art (or some other topic of interest)	(Take-home final exam)	V9-10

Abbreviations:

G: Justo L. González, The Story of Christianity, Vol. 1

P: William C. Placher (ed.), Readings in the History of Christian Thought, Vol. 1

RB1980: Timothy Fry (trans.), RB 1980: The Rule of St. Benedict

IS: Dale T. Irvin and Scott W. Sunquist, History of the World Christian Movement, Vol. 1

V: Carl A. Volz, The Medieval Church.