A survey unit at graduate level which covers the areas of the Early Church, the Middle Ages, and the Reformation.

Prerequisites:
none

Requirements:
3 hours per week

Assessment:

• one 4,000 word essay - 60%
• one 2 hour written examination - 40%

Seminar Text:
Augustine. Confessions.

Bibliography:

• Buckley, James J., Frederick C. Bauerschmidt, and Trent Pomplun, eds. The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.
• Chadwick, Owen. A History of Christianity. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995.
• Coakley, John W., and Andrea Sterk, eds. Readings in World Christian History. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2004.
• Comby,  Jean. From the Beginnings to the Fifteenth Century. Vol. 1 of How to Read Church History. London: SCM, 1985.
• Comby, Jean, and Diarmaid MacCulloch. From the Reformation to the Present Day. Vol. 2 of How to Read Church History. London: SCM, 1989.
• Cross, Frank L., and Elizabeth A. Livingstone, eds. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 3rd ed.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Gerhardt, Mary, and Fabian E. Udoh, eds. The Christianity Reader. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2007.
• Hamman, Adalbert-G. How to Read the Church Fathers. London: SCM, 1993.
• Harries, Richard, and Henry Mayr-Harting, eds. Christianity: Two Thousand Years. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
• McManners, John, ed. Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
• Murray, Peter, and Linda Murray. Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Partner, Peter. Two Thousand Years. 2 vols. London: Granada, 1999.