CLASS 1432 - VARIETIES OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will examine the many different and often competing forms of Christianity that existed during the first five centuries of our common era. We will include an historical survey of Mediterranean culture and society in the historical Roman Empire to help us understand the ways in which Christianity developed in relation to the philosophical, sociological, theological, and political environment of this period. We will also focus on the contribution of the early varieties of Christianity to modern Western views of the relationship between the individual body and society. The literature of this period represents a broad variety of beliefs and practices ranging from philosophical views of god and matter (and the nature of each), to notions of life-long celibacy.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Medieval & Renaissance Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies

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