University of Portland Bulletin 2014-2015

THE 461 Christianity's Second Thousand Years: Challenge and Renewal, 1200-2000

The course traces Christianity's vigorous but fragmented growth in the second millennium. It studies the grandeur of the medieval cathedrals, the ideas of scholasticism and mysticism, the challenges of the Reformation, the rise of modernity, and the course of Christianity in America. Its tools are chronological tracking, historical vignettes, analysis of selected texts and profiles of important figures.

Cross Listed Courses

THE 361

Prerequisite

THE 101 or THE 105, THE 205