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The history of Christianity II, from the Reformation to the modern megachurch, Molly Worthen

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The history of Christianity II

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Molly Worthen

Great courses. Religion & theology. Christianity

from the Reformation to the modern megachurch

Discover new views of world history through the lens of Christianity

Disc 1. Prophets of reform before Protestantism -- Luther and the dawn of Protestantism -- 2. Zwingli, Calvin, and the reformed tradition -- The Anabaptist radicals -- 3. The Catholic reformation -- The church militant in the Spanish Empire -- 4. War and witchcraft in the Holy Roman Empire -- Puritans, kings, and theology in practice -- 5. Religious dissent and the English Civil War -- Eastern Orthodoxy : from Byzantium to Russia -- 6. Christians under Muslim rule -- The church and the scientific revolution -- 7. The enlightenment quest for reasonable faith -- Pietist revival in Europe -- 8. The first great awakening -- Religion and revolution in the 18th Century -- 9. The second great awakening -- The Mormons : a true American faith -- 10. Slave religion in the Americas -- Christian missions and moral reform -- 11. The church's encounter with modern learning -- The social gospel -- 12. Fundamentalism and Pentecostalism -- Apocalyptic faith in the 1800s and beyond -- 13. The church and the Russian Revolution -- The rival gods of the cold war -- 14. Rebellion and reform in Latin America -- Vatican II and global renewal -- 15. Secularism and the death of God -- The gospel and global civil rights --16. Culture wars and the Christian right -- Liberation theologies in Latin America -- 17. Prophetic religion in modern Africa -- Chinese Christianity : missionaries to Mao -- 18. Revival and repression in Korea -- The challenge of 21st-Century Christianity

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