Church History 1 - RETA3031

• Title: CDPV1-Church History 1
• Guaranteed by: Department of Church History (27-CD)
• Faculty: Protestant Theological Faculty
• Actual: from 2024
• Semester: winter
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, C [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: prof. Martin Wernisch, Dr.; Pieter Cornelis Adrianus Morée, Dr.

Annotation

This course deepens the knowledge of global (primarily European) history of church and theology acquired
through the individual study of text books and other literature. Therefore it is not confined to an overview of church
history from the early to the latest period, but dependent on the possibilities can rather be compared to research
courses which by way of indepth case studies help to understand and interpret details of general issues
concerning both sources as well as the current academic debate about it.
The individual themes of the course will therefore be modified and selected from various periods and aspects of
church history (including Czech church history, as far as it will be studies in a comparative perspective). The
following larger themes have priority:
A) The early church as a shared foundation in the development of Christianity in all its branches (including
the reception of patristic traditions in later times).
B) The Reformation as an defining turning point in the development of Christian churches of the European
West and as a foundation of protestantism.
C) Modern church hirstory as the genesis of the current state of Christianity.

Last update: Vančová Eliška, Mgr. (29.05.2020)

Course completion requirements

Attendence.

Last update: Vančová Eliška, Mgr. (29.05.2020)

Literature

The Pelican History of the Church 1-7. London: Penguin Books, 1960 and repeatedly.

The Cambridge History of Christianity, 1-9, Cambridge University Press, 2005-2009 and reprints.

Last update: Vančová Eliška, Mgr. (29.05.2020)