This is part of the core curriculum for International Online Bible College, but anyone may use this material free of charge.
Scope of the Course: In this course, you will become familiar with the background and roots of the Early and Medieval Church all the way up to just before the Reformation.
Grading:
Your grade will be based on the reflection comments you write for each of the videos
below and your completion of the Use
Your Gifts final project.
To complete the course...
1. Watch each of the following videos. Assignment: Leave a 100-word comment reflecting on the material in each video - 100 points each. I also encourage you to take notes to keep for your own use.
- The Ancient Greek World
- The Ancient Roman World
- Roman Pagan Life and Worship
- Plato, Aristotle, and Stoicism
- Early Christian Persecution
- The Apostolic Fathers
- Christian Apologists and Early Heresies
- Gnosticism and the Early Church
- Monasticism
- Rome and the Third Century Crisis
- Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
- Constantine the Great
- The Byzantine Christian Empire part 1
- The Byzantine Christian Empire part 2
- Creeds and Councils: What Are They?
- Early Church and Trinity: Father and Son
- Arius and Nicea
- After Nicea
- Council of Constantinople
- Disputes on Christ: Nestorius and Cyril
- Council of Chalcedon
- Ambrose and Jerome
- Augustine part 1
- Augustine part 2
- Medieval Overview
- The Merovingians
- Who was Charlemagne?
- The Vikings
- Alfred the Great and the Anglo Saxons
- Al Andalus Spain
- Knights and Chivalry
- The First Crusades
- Crusades
- Medieval Life, Death, and Marriage
- Medieval Society
- Magna Carta
- Black Death
- Great Schism
- Avignon Papacy
- 100 Years War
- Papal Schism
- Boethius and Christian Philosophy
- Aristotle and Scholasticism
- Anselm on God: The Ontological Argument
- Abelard on the Trinity
- Abelard on the Cross
- Bernard of Clairvaux
- Duns Scotus
- Thomas Aquinas part 1
- Thomas Aquinas part 2
- William of Ockham
- John Wycliffe
- Jan Hus
- Humanism
2. Use Your Gifts (2400 points)
Choose one topic from this course for your final project. It may be writing a Bible study, recording yourself preaching a sermon, writing a worship song, creating a work of art, writing a research paper on a topic of interest, gathering a list of Bible verses on a certain theme, gathering a list of quotes on a theme, etc. – anything that shows you have engaged with and understood the subject.
Bible Helps may publish your final project as an example to other students and for the edification of our readers. You will be credited as the writer/creator, etc.
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