THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
An Adult Education Series by Dr. William J. Neidinger
30 Lectures in Three Parts.
This in-depth series explores all aspects of the history of the Christian
faith from before the birth of Christ up to the Protestant Reformation
and Catholic Counterreformation.  Lectures will focus on the great
theological debates, popular practices and superstitions, Biblical
criticism, art and architecture, politics and the faith, the interpretations
(ancient and modern) of Paul, the heresies, the Inquisition, and the
various stages of the monastic movement in western and eastern
Christianity.

PART I:  THE ORIGINS AND RISE OF CHRISTIANITY

LECTURES:
  1. The Hellenistic Culture of the Mediterranean.
  2. Pax Romana.
  3. Salvation and Immortality: The Mystery Religions.
  4. Jesus of the Gospels: Judging the Evidence.
  5. Paul: Redefining the Messiah and Salvation.
  6. Judaism and Christianity: Competition and Conflict.
  7. Persecution:  the Blood of the Martyrs.
  8. The Gnostic and Docetist Visions of the Christ.
  9. Evolution of the Structure and Hierarchy of the Church.
  10. Constantine.


PART II:  THE FAITH OF EMPIRES

LECTURES:
  1. Defining the Christ: Theologians and Philosophers.
  2. Defining the Christ: The Popular Stories of the Apocrypha.
  3. Protest: The Retreat to the Desert.
  4. The Christian Roman Empire.        
  5. The Church Divided.
  6. Monasticism and Medieval Christian Culture.
  7. Christianity and Islam.
  8. Popular Christian Beliefs and Practices.
  9. From Charlemagne to the Holy Roman Empire.
  10. The Cluniac and Cistercian Revivals.


PART III:  REVIVAL , REBIRTH AND REFORMATION

LECTURES:
  1. The Church and the Crusades:  the Holy Wars against Islam.
  2. The Age of the Cathedrals and the Scholastics.
  3. Inquisition:  Purifying the Faith and Cleansing the Land.
  4. The Church Ripped Asunder:  Avignon, the Great Schism, and
    the Councils.
  5. The Church of the Renaissance:  the Road to the Reformation
    Begins.
  6. Europe on the Eve of the Reformation.
  7. “A Wild Boar in the Vineyard” Martin Luther.
  8. The Reformation Reformed.
  9. The Isles, the Low Countries and France.
  10. The Catholic Counterreformation.
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THE HISTORY OF
CHRISTIANITY
An Adult Education Series
by Dr. William J. Neidinger

30 eighty-minute lectures,
with lecture notes

331 DVD:  $175.00

332 CD: $120.00

333 Tape:  $150.00

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Part I
    301 DVD.  $68.00
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    311 DVD.  $68.00
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    321 DVD.  $68.00
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A History of the Papacy
Vatican City
The Passion of Christ
The History of the Inquisitions
A History of the Bible
Early Christian Belief and Practice
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