Program Overview

Program Overview

The History of the Church I: The Beginnings through Medieval Period is a five-week course that explores the people and events that shaped the Church and its relationships across the centuries.

Course Description

Church history tells the stories that are woven into the fiber of the Church as people of God and as institution. The Church's beliefs, practices, and relationships have been formed by believers of every generation as they endeavored to live lives of faith in their own time and place. This course looks at both the epoch-forming events as well as the people behind them.

Course Topics

• Week 1: Why Study Church History?
• Week 2: In the Beginning
• Week 3: Establishing Faith in the Context of Culture
• Week 4: Faith through the Early and High Middle Ages
• Week 5: Faith in the Late Middle Ages

Required Text

The course has a required text: Kevin L. Hughes, Church History: Faith Handed On. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2002.

Content Scholars

• Kevin L. Hughes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Historical Theology at Villanova University
• Francine Cardman, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry
• Catherine M. Mooney, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Church History at Boston College School of Theology and Ministry

Course Details

• Fee: $60
• Duration: Five weeks

Related Courses

Also see History of the Church II: The Reformation to Vatican II