A survey unit at graduate level which covers the areas of the Church in the Modern World, Asia and Australia

Requirements:

two one hour lectures each week and 6 seminars during the semester

Students are expected to present a one-page handout at each seminar and speak to that. This may form part of the final essay.

Assessment:

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

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.
• Comby, Jean, and Diarmaid MacCulloch. From the Reformation to the Present Day. Vol. 2 of How to Read Church History. London: SCM, 1989.
• Comby, Jean. How to Understand the History of Christian Mission. London: SCM, 1996.
• 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 Press, 2007.
• 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.
• Neil, S. A History of Christian Missions. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1964.
• Partner, Peter. The Second Millennium: From Medieval Christendom to Global Christianity. Vol. 2 of  Two Thousand Years. London: Granada, 1999.