Christian History 1 Course

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.

1. The Ancient Greek World
2. The Ancient Roman World
3. Roman Pagan Life and Worship
4. Plato, Aristotle, and Stoicism
5. Early Christian Persecution
6. The Apostolic Fathers
7. Christian Apologists and Early Heresies
8. Gnosticism and the Early Church
9. Monasticism
10. Rome and the Third Century Crisis
11. Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
12. Constantine the Great
13. The Byzantine Christian Empire part 1
14. The Byzantine Christian Empire part 2
15. Creeds and Councils: What Are They?
16. Early Church and Trinity: Father and Son
17. Arius and Nicea
18. After Nicea
    
19. Council of Constantinople
20. Disputes on Christ: Nestorius and Cyril
21. Council of Chalcedon
22. Ambrose and Jerome
23. Augustine part 1
24. Augustine part 2
25. Medieval Overview
26. The Merovingians
27. Who was Charlemagne?
28. The Vikings
29. Alfred the Great and the Anglo Saxons
30. Al Andalus Spain
31. Knights and Chivalry
32. The First Crusades
33. Crusades
34. Medieval Life, Death, and Marriage
35. Medieval Society
36. Magna Carta
37. Black Death
38. Great Schism
39. Avignon Papacy
40. 100 Years War
41. Papal Schism
42. Boethius and Christian Philosophy
43. Aristotle and Scholasticism
44. Anselm on God: The Ontological Argument
45. Abelard on the Trinity
46. Abelard on the Cross
47. Bernard of Clairvaux
48. Duns Scotus
49. Thomas Aquinas part 1
50. Thomas Aquinas part 2
51. William of Ockham
52. John Wycliffe
53. Jan Hus
54. 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.