The Reformation CH206
Australian College of Theology name: The Reformation
Learning Outcomes
1. To ensure that you acquire the elements of an understanding of the causes of the Reformation;
2. To provide some awareness of the key theological debates in the Reformation era as background to the later study of theology;
3. To assist you to learn, from the history of the Reformation, lessons which can be applied to understanding of ministry today;
4. To promote training in the use of primary documents.
Content
1. The consolidation of Catholic Christianity
2. The growth and decline of the Papal ecclesiastical state
3. Internal controversies, including the Great Schism
4. The challenge of Islam, including the Crusades
5. The religious and intellectual revivals
6. The causes of the Reformation including the conciliar movement and the pre-Reformation reformers
7. Martin Luther
8. The South German cities and Zurich: Huldrich Zwingli
9. The Radical Reformation
10. John Calvin
11. The English Reformation until Henry VIII
12. The English Reformation from Edward VI, including the Elizabethan Settlement
13. The Reformation in Scotland
14. The Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent.
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