This course offers a survey of Christian 历史 and 神学 from the apostolic times through the early Reformation. Course material pays balanced attention to Christianity's intellectual and social 历史, with sustained consideration of the church's evolving relationship to 政治 and social structures and the contested category of orthodoxy.
作为HSTY 5210的延续, Christian History II traces the expansion of the church from Europe into the Americas, 非洲, and Asia as well as the division of the church into myriad denominational traditions. 注意的是神学, 政治, and 经济 contexts that attended this expansion and division, 以及多样性中的统一问题.
This course traces the mutual impact of Christianity and North American culture, 政治, and 经济s from the sixteenth century through the twentieth, enabling a developmental understanding of the ministry contexts in which students will likely serve.
This seminar includes readings and research on the development of Christian thought and practice during the first six centuries of the church. 可能会专注于一个狭窄的主题(e.g., Trinity, prayer, preaching, Christology, salvation, anthropology) or particular figure(s) (e.g., Augustine, the desert fathers and mothers, the Cappadocians, etc.).
Investigates the intersection of ethnicity and religious experience in the United States, querying the role of dominant narratives and the boundary between public and private religious discourse.
An historical and theological approach to the emergence of the Pentecostal and charismatic traditions in the American experience. Special attention will be given to the varieties of interpretation of the movement and to contemporary controversies within it.
This seminar provides opportunity to explore more fully the major areas of Catholic, 路德, 改革, 激进的, 以及16世纪的英语复兴.
这门课是情境化的, 确定原因, and traces outcomes of the renewal of persons and faith communities within key moments and movements of Christian 历史.
This course provides students a deeper knowledge and appreciation of the 历史 and 神学 of the 福音圣约教会, 从瑞典的根源到现在的多民族现实. Students will apply skills of historical research and analysis, 在以前的课程中发展起来的, to their own denominational 历史 and explore the significqance of this 历史 to the present mission and identity of the 福音圣约教会.
This course will focus on various special topics in Christian 历史. 以前的课程包括:议会和信条, 美国人生活中的圣经, 和索伦·克尔凯郭尔. 这门课可以上多次.
These courses are offered by Young 生活 and given graduate credit through 北公园神学院.
These courses are offered by Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship and given graduate credit though 北公园神学院.
An opportunity for students to explore a topic of interest outside the regular curriculum. 需要教练的许可. Submission of course proposal/syllabus to the academic dean is required.
This core course assists the student in gaining a deeper knowledge of and appreciation for the 历史 of the 福音圣约教会. This includes background in the 路德 Reformation tradition, 虔信所带来的个人和教会的更新, the "free church" movements that influenced the revivals of the nineteenth century, and the subsequent challenges and opportunities of mission and growth. Transplantation from Sweden to North America through immigration provides the initial context of the 历史 and the church's development through the generations in becoming what is today a diverse, 多民族教派. The course will also focus on several key issues in its ongoing life together.