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