early church history
A look at the life of the early church, covering the cause and effects of the persecutions it suffered. An analysis of some of the heresies which beset it.
Syllabus
- Introduction to early church history
- Apostles and 'apostolic fathers'
- Challengers and champions: heresies in the first centuries
- Christian life: 2nd and 3rd centuries
- The hour of trial: persecutions of the early church
- A new era: accepted and respected
- Trinitarian controversies
- Men and women of east and west
- The road to Chalcedon: christological controversies
- Popes, monks and missionaries