Pertinent Information on the Great Courses DVD lectures on The Catholic Church: A History

The DVDs.

           The following are the subjects of each of the 30-minute long lectures

Disc 1

  1.  From Jesus to the Creation of the Church
  2. The First Christian institutions
  3. Christianities in the Early Church
  4. Persecution and Saints
  5. Peace between Empire and Church
  6. Institutional and Doctrinal Developments

Disc 2

7. Latin Theology, Including Augustine

8. Popes and Bishops in the Early Middle Ages

9. Monasticism- Benedict and His Rule

10. Evangelizing Northern and Eastern Europe

11.The Germanization of Christianity

12. Charlemagne an the Church in Feudal Times

Disc 3

13. Monks and Hermits – New forms of Monasticism

14. Papal reforms and Church State Controversies

15. Crusades, Heresy, inquisition

16. The Papacy – Innocent to Boniface VIII

17. Francis, Dominic, and the Mendicants

18. Flowering of Church Art in the Middle Ages

    Disc 4

    19. Scholastic Thought

    20. Medieval Mysticism

    21. The Great Schism and the Conciliar Age

    22. The Renaissance Church

    23. Luther, Calvin, and the Reformation

    24. Catholic Responses – The Council of Trent

      Disc 5

      25. The Jesuits

      26. Catholicism in Asia and the New World

      27. American Catholicism

      28. The Church in the Ages of Reason

      29. Pius IX and Papal Infallibility

      30. Leo XIII and the Modern world

      Disc 6

      31. The Eastern Catholic Churches

      32. The Second Vatican Council

      33. The Catholic Church Looks Outward

      34. The Challenges of New Theologies

      35. John Paul II and the 21st-Century Church

      36. One? Holy? Catholic? Apostolic?

      The Lecturer (The following is from the back of the DVD case)

      “Professor William R. Cook has taught thousands of students for more than 35 years at the State University of New York at Geneseo, where he is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History.  Professor Cook is an expert in Medieval history the Renaissance and Reformation periods, and the Bible and Christian thought. The Medieval Academy of America awarded Professor William R Cook the CARA Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Medieval Studies for his achievements.”

      This course, as with most others, also comes with a course guide book which will be covered in the next blog that I do on the great courses. I have observed that with at least some courses, you can also purchase a bound printed copy of the transcript.

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