Austin Cooper omi AM

2008

This unit will examine the following: Church and society in the Enlightenment; the disruption and challenges of the French Revolution; the response of the Church to the great movements in the nineteenth century (Romanticism, Liberalism, Ultramodernism, Nationalism, Imperialism); the intellectual challenges; the Social Question; the First World War and the ensuing rise of Fascism; changing social patterns; the Second World War and the Cold War; the growth of the Ecumenical Movement. The survey will terminate with the impact of the Second Vatican Council.

Prerequisites:	second level	CH100 and CH101 or equivalents
	third level	two levels of Church History
Requirements:	2 hours per week
Assessment:	second level	2,500 words written work	50%
		one 2 hour documents assignment	50%
	third level	3,000 words written work	50%
		one 2 hour documents assignment	50%

Recommended Preliminary Reading

Comby, J. and D. MacCulloch. How to Read Church History. Vol. 2, From the Reformation to the Present Day. London: SCM Press, 1986.

Seminar Text

Sugg, J.,ed. A Packet of Letters: A Selection from the Correspondence of John Henry Newman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.

Bibliography

Atkin, N. and F. Tallett. Priests and Prelates and People: Catholicism since 1750. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Bokenkotter, T. The Church and Revolution. New York: Harper Collins, 1998.

Burleigh, M. Earthly Powers. New York: Harper Collins, 2006.

Chadwick, O. The Christian Church in the Cold War. The Penguin History of the Church, vol. 7. London: Penguin, 1992.

Chadwick, O. The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century: The Gifford Lectures in the University of Edinburgh for 1973-74. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Hastings, A., ed. Modern Catholicism: Vatican II and After. London: SPCK, 1991.

Hsia R. P.-C. The World of Catholic Renewal 1540 - 1770. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Kent, P., and J. Pollard., eds . Papal Diplomacy in the Modern Age. Westport: Praeger, 1994.

McLeod, H. Religion & Society in England 1850-1914. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1996.

Reardon, B. M. G. Religion in the Age of Romanticism: Studies in Early Nineteenth Century Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.