CH 610 English Reformation

Moorman, John R. H. A History of the Church in England (3rd edn. [London: A & C Black, 1976 & Morehouse Publishing, 1986]), chapters 1-10 or Neill, Stephen, Anglicanism (4th edn [Oxford, 1978]), chapter 1 & Haigh, Christopher, English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), Part I Three of the following: Moorman, History, chapters 10-13 and 14, part 1 and Neill, Anglicanism, chapters 2-5 and 6 (to p. 137) and/or Haigh, Christopher, English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), Prologue, Introduction, Parts II and III, and Conclusion and/or Dickens, A. G., The English Reformation (2nd edn, [London: Batsford Press, 1989 & Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991]) and/or Scarisbrick, J. J. The Reformation and the English People (London: Basil Blackwell, 1984)https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3204/thumbnail.jp

CH 702 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers

Required texts: Source readings: J. Stevenson & W. H. C. Frend, ed., A New Eusebius: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church to AD 337, SPCK J. Stevenson & W. H. C. Frend, ed., Creeds , Councils and Controversies: Documents illustrating the History of the Church AD 337-461, SPCK History of Christian thought: Stuart G. Hall, Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church, SPCK, 1991https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/1381/thumbnail.jp

CH 651 The Sacraments in History

Required texts: James F. White, Documents of Christian Worship: Descriptive and Interpretive Sources [DCW] Bard Thompson, ed., Liturgies of the Western Church [LWC] John H. Leith, ed., Creeds of the Churches: A Reader in Christian Doctrine from the Bible to the Present (3rd edition) [CC] John Fenwick & Bryan Spinks, Worship in Transition: the Liturgical Movement in the Twentieth Centuryhttps://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3786/thumbnail.jp

CH 610 The English Reformation

The purpose of the course is to enable students to become familiar with and/or to deepen their understanding of the changing life of Christianity in England from 1500 to 1611. In those years the English Church built on its earlier eleven centuries and drew from continental currents of renewal and reform shaping Christian faith and practice in the distinctive ways that a later age was to call “anglicanism” Those identifying themselves today as Anglicans are not the only Christians who partake of this sixteenth-century heritage. It also belongs to those whose English forbears unsuccessfully struggled to demand the precise patterns of continental Reformed churches. It belongs to Methodists who separated from the national church two centuries later. Although the course concentrates on religious and ecclesiastical affairs, these, as always in studies of church history, cannot be understood apart from their deep involvement with the political, economic, and cultural concerns of British society. The course will be divided into three main topical rather than chronological sections -- with a preliminary consideration of the earlier years of the English church in the initial week: I. Continuity and change through four monarchs II. Authority and ministry in a unitive society of nation and church III. Catholic and Protestant worship and teaching in the English Church A summary of the principal sixteenth century events and issues in the formation and development of a distinctive tradition will be found in William P. Haugaard, The History of Anglicanism: From the Reformation to the Eighteenth Century in The Study of Anglicanism (rev. edn., ed. Stephen Sykes, John Booty, & Jonathan Knight [Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998]). A reading of the first half (pp. 3-18) of this essay will provide a rapid birds-eye view of the course.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3384/thumbnail.jp

CH 702 Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers

J. Stevenson & W. H. C. Frend, ed., A New Eusebius: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church to AD 337, SPCK, 1987 J. Stevenson & W. H. C. Frend, ed., Creeds , Councils and Controversies: Documents illustrating the History of the Church AD 337-461, SPCK, 1989 History of Christian thought: Stuart G. Hall, Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church, SPCK, 1991 and Eerdmans, 1992https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/1347/thumbnail.jp

CH 702 The Doctrine of God and of Christ from the Challenge of Gnosticism to Decisions at Chalcedon (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers)

J. Stevenson & W. H. C. Frend, ed., A New Eusebius: Documents Illustrating the History of the Church to AD 337, SPCK J. Stevenson & W. H. C. Frend, ed., Creeds , Councils and Controversies: Documents illustrating the History of the Church AD 337-461, SPCK Histories of Christian thought in the Patristic age: J. N. D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines, Continuum International Publishing Group, Incorporated Stuart G. Hall, Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church, SPCK, 1991https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/2646/thumbnail.jp

CH 650 The Book of Common Prayer across The Centuries

The purpose of the course is to survey the Book of Common Prayer from the sixteenth century, through succeeding three centuries, through the ecumenical liturgical movement of the twentieth century, to the present-day book authorized by the Episcopal Church in 1979. The British churches will provide the major focus up to the latter years of the eighteenth century when, in post-revolutionary North America, Anglicans first begin to modify the exclusively British setting and character of the Prayer Book. Throughout the course students will be encouraged to relate the developments of this distinctive tradition with those in other parts of the larger Christian community. The course will review and analyze the historical development of liturgy, including rite, ceremony, music, and architectural surroundings. Throughout, attention will be given to the relation of community worship to personal devotion and to the character of the larger community in which liturgy is celebrated. The central focus of class sessions will be the discussion of successive texts from the Prayer Books in relation with the dominant and demotic discourses of the society for which they were intended. Emphasis will be given to “the regular services appointed for public worship” in the Episcopal Church: the Holy Eucharist and Daily Morning and Evening Prayer” although attention will given from time to time to the Litany and the Pastoral Offices. Readings on the historical development and the theological assumptions and implications of the Prayer Book will be read by participants during the course of the semester.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3785/thumbnail.jp

CH 651 The Sacraments in History

Required texts: James F. White, Documents of Christian Worship: Descriptive and Interpretive Sources Bard Thompson, ed., Liturgies of the Western Church John H. Leith, ed., Creeds of the Churches: A Reader in Christian Docgrine from the Bible to the Present John Fenwick & Bryan Spinks, Worship in Transition: the Liturgical Movement in the Twentieth Centuryhttps://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/3866/thumbnail.jp

CH 650 Worship, Prayer, and Community in Anglican Tradition

Weekly reading as assigned from the following: William Sydnor, The Prayer Book through the Ages (Morehouse, 1997) Leonel L. Mitchell, Praying Shapes Believing (Morehouse, 1991) Marion J. Hatchett, Commentary on the American Prayer Book (Harper, 1995) Other published materials as listed weekly Websites as listed weekly: students are asked to print out some of the online materials; these should be collected in a folder cumulatively and brought each week for reference during class discussion [Some students may wish an overview of Anglican history such as can be found briefly surveyed in the first two essays by William P. Haugaard and Perry Butler in The Study of Anglicanism, pp. 3-51 (rev. edn., ed. Stephen Sykes, John Booty, & Jonathan Knight Fortress Press, 1998)] Two readings in spirituality & a brief 500-word paper: due April 6 Martin Thornton, English Spirituality: An Outline of Ascetical Theology according to the English Pastoral Tradition (SPCK & Cowley, 1963 & 1986), chapters 1 and 19-22 A. M. Allchin, “Anglican Spirituality” in The Study of Anglicanism, pp. 351-364 Paper topic: What elements of anglican spirituality does Allchin include in his essay that Thornton does not discuss in the lengthier assigned chapters of his book?https://place.asburyseminary.edu/syllabi/2688/thumbnail.jp