RELG 330 - History of Christianity
Study Topics and Assignments
Module 10 - Chapters 29-31
Reason, Revival, and Revolution (part 2)
AD 1650 - 1789
Module Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this Module, you will be able to :
- Describe and discuss the lives and teachings of some key people during the period AD 1650-1789. (CLO A)
- Describe and discuss some of the main movements during the period AD 1650-1789. (CLO B)
- Identify and discuss some of the major issues during the period AD 1650-1789. (CLO C)
- Describe and discuss some of the problems faced by the Christian community during the period AD 1650-1789. (CLOs A, C, D)
- Explain and discuss how the Christian community developed during the period AD 1650-1789. (CLO E)
- Evaluate and discuss the conditions facing the Christian community during the period AD 1650-1789. (CLO F)
Textbook Readings and Class Notes
- Timeline 1650-1789. page 410
- Chapter 29, Evangelical Revival and the Great Awakening, pages 411-436
- Notes on Chapter 29
- Chapter 30, Rationalism, pages 437-449
- Notes on Chapter 30
- Chapter 31, The Russian Church, 1500-1900, pages 451-455
- Notes on Chapter 31
- Timeline for AD 1400-1700
- A Brief History of Denominations
- Russia, AD 1250-1914
- The Russian Primary Chronicle
- Timeline for Russia
InterNet Resources for this Module (optional)
- InterNet Links for Module 10
- Other useful articles can be found by using GoodSearch
- You may use Wikipedia to give a lead to other sources and material, but you should not use it as a main source - Do not quote from it
Study Questions
Prepare an answer sheet for yourself, in which you make notes on these topics. Then you may use it, along with the textbook and the course notes, to answer the questions on the Test, and to formulate a thread for the Discussion Board.
- Protestants arrive in North America - Anglicans, Congregationalist, Independents, Puritans, Presbyterians. American Baptists
- Jonathan Edwards
- George Whitefield
- Dutch and German Pietism, Philipp Spener
- The Moravians
- The Welsh Revival; John and Charles Wesley and the Methodists
- Francis Asbury, Thomas Coke, and American Methodists
- Evangelicals in England and Scotland, and the results of the Great Awakening
- Hymns and Church Music
- Christianity and the Rise of Modern Science
- René Descartes
- Blaise Pascal
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Liebnitz
- John Locke, David Hume
- Deism, Rousseau, Voltaire, Lessing, Kant
- Quietism, Madame Guyon, Fénelon
- Natural Theology
- The Church in Russia - the Time of Troubles, Nikon the Patriarch, the Most Holy Synod
- Splits within the Russian Church, Old Believers and 'Sectarians'; Russian devotion
Discussion Board
Thread - Whom would you most like to have been :
Jonathan Edwards, George Whitefield, John Wesley, Charles Wesley, Francis Asbury, Thomas Coke, René Descartes, Madame Guyon, Peter the Great, or Nikon the Patriarch
?
Choose whom you would most like to have been, write an account of his/her life, and say why you chose him/her rather than any of the others.
Replies to 2 of your classmates' threads : - If possible, choose Threads which deal with different people.
What are your thoughts about the people chosen, and their influence on the growth of Christianity?
Test on this Module
Go to the Test Section of the course on Canvas, and take the test at least once before 12 noon of the Monday following the Module period. See the
Assignments Page for dates and times.
You will have 1 hour to complete the test.
You may take the test three times before the cut-off time.
Questions will vary each time you take the test.
Your highest score will count towards your course grade.
Remember to cite your sources if you use any other than the textbook
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