REL 231 - History of the Christian Church
Study Topics and Assignments
Week 1 - Christian Beginnings
AD 30 - 100
Textbook Readings and Class Notes
- Guide to Textbook Chapters
- Introduction, pages 12-13
- Chapter 1, pages 14-43
- Course Notes for Week 1
InterNet Resources for this assignment
- InterNet Links for Week 1
- Useful articles can be found by using GoodSearch
- You may use Wikipedia to give a lead to other sources and material, but you should not use it as a main source - Do not quote from it
This Week's Assignment : Twenty Questions
Please write a paragraph on each of the following topics.
A paragraph should contain at least three sentences and be three to ten lines in length
- Augustus Caesar
- Relations between the Romans and the Jews at the time of Jesus
- Parties within Judaism at the time of Jesus
- Events on the Day of Pentecost
- The Early Church in Jerusalem
- The Council of Jerusalem
- Disagreements between Jewish Christians and Gentile Christians
- Paul - his mission and his Epistles
- The titles "Messiah", "Christ", and "Lord"
- The early "Two-stage Christology"
- Development of the realization of the significance of Jesus' death on the Cross
- Docetism
- Baptism in the Early Church
- The Eucharist in the Early Church
- Liturgy in the Early Church
- Leaders and Ministers in the Early Church
- The First Jewish Revolt and its consequences
- The Council of Jamnia and its consequences
- Roman Emperors after Augustus, and their treatment of Christians
- The spread of Christianity outside the Roman Empire
Remember to cite your sources
Use MSWord or a text editor such as Notepad to prepare and save your work, then submit it as one document to Turnitin via the Blackboard link
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