CH101 Introducing Church History I: Obscurity to Christendom
CH102 Introducing Church History II: Reformation to Postmodernism
CH111 Understanding the Protestant Reformation: Precursors and Legacy
CH151 Introducing Historical Theology: Apostles to the Reformation
CH152 Introducing Historical Theology: Luther to the Twenty-First Century
In this course, you’ll begin by studying the Catholic church and its theology on the cusp of the Protestant Reformation, setting the stage for the work of Luther, Calvin, and other Protestant Reformers. You’ll continue on to study the post-Reformation period and various Christian movements such as Pietism, Puritanism, and Methodism. A study of modernity, beginning with the Enlightenment and the scientific revolutions, introduces the advent of liberal theology and the response of conservative theologians to the challenges of modernity. The course ends with a study of the postmodernity—its meaning, and the variety of ways that Christian theologians have responded to postmodern thought.
Introducing the Speaker and the Course
Roman Catholic Theology on the Eve of the Reformation
Luther and the Beginnings of Protestant Theology
The Doctrinal Views of Luther
Zwingli, Calvin, and Reformed Theology
Key Views of Reformed Theology
The Radical Reformers
The English Reformation and Anglican Theology
Counter-Reformation and the Council of Trent
The Scottish Reformation and Puritanism
Protestant Scholasticism and Confessionalism
Arminius and the Remonstrant Controversy
Puritan Theology and Jonathan Edwards
Pietism
Wesley and Methodism
Deism and Natural Religion
Beginnings of Baptist Theology
The Enlightenment: Science and Theology
The Enlightenment: Philosophy and Theology
Friedrich Schleiermacher and Liberal Theology
Charles Hodge and Conservative Theology
Roman Catholic Modernism
Mediating Theology
Fundamentalism
The Social Gospel
Karl Barth and Dialectical Theology
Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian Realism
Existentialist Theology
Process Theology
Religionless Christianity and the Death of God Theology
Theology of Hope
New Approaches to Roman Catholicism
Theologies of Liberation
Evangelical Theologies
Renaissance of the Doctrine of the Trinity
Development of Postmodernity
Deconstructionism
Postliberal Theology
Stanley Hauerwas and Postmodernity
The Global South
Concluding the Course
Roger E. Olson is the Foy Valentine Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics at Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary. Previously he served as professor of theology at Bethel University in Minnesota. He is the author of eighteen books including The Journey of Modern Theology: From Reconstruction to Deconstruction (Intervarsity Press). Dr. Olson was born and raised in the Upper Midwest of the United States and considers himself a "Bapticostal." He grew up Pentecostal but became Baptist while attending North American Baptist Seminary. His PhD in Religious Studies is from Rice University (Houston, Texas) and he studied at the University of Munich with theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg. He served as editor of Christian Scholar's Review in the 1990s and has served as consulting and contributing editor for Christianity Today. He is married and has two adult daughters and two beautiful grandchildren. He enjoys Southern gospel music, Victorian gothic mystery books, and traveling.