Handout Church History
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1. Introduction
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2. The Bible & Church History (Part 1)
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3. The Bible & Church History (Part 2)
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4. 2nd Century: The Church of the Apostolic Fathers
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5. 3rd and 4th Century: Nicea and the Deity of Christ
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6. 5th Century in the East: Two Natures of Christ
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7. 5th Century in the West: Augustine
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8. 5th Century in the West: Tertullian to Augustine
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9. 5th Century in the West: Fall of Imperial Rome
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10. Early Middle Ages: Ecclesiastico-Political Rome
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11. The 13th Century: Salvation by the Church
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12. The 13th Century: True Church "in the wilderness"
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13. The End of the Middle: A Summary
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14. Forerunners of Luther: Wycliffe and Hus
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15. Forerunners of Luther: Lyra, Valla, Erasmus
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16. Forerunners of Luther: Brothers of Common Life
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17. Forerunners of Luther: Savonarola
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18. Martin Luther (Part 1)
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19. Martin Luther (Part 2)
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20. Ulrich Zwingli
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21. Colloquy of Marburg
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22. Melancthon and Lutheran Slippage
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23. The Lutheran Book of Concord and Saxon
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24. John Calvin and the Calvinists
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25. Calvinistic Creeds and the Westminster Standards
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26. The Anabaptists
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27. Romanism's Counter Reformation: Trent
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28. The Thirty Year War
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29. Orthodoxy on the Continent and Britain
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30. Puritanism in England and New England
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31. Arminianism and the External Attack on Reformation
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32. Covenant Theology and the Internal Attack on Reformation
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33. Enlightenment: Root and Branch Attack on Reformers
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34. The Modern Missionary Movement
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35. 20th Century: Theological Liberalism
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36. 20th Century: Neo-Orthodoxy
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37. 20th Century: Neo-Evangelicalism
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38. 20th Century: Neo-Calvinism
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39. Conclusion
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