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=__Some Information On the Test and Mushy Stuff__= Quarter Test: Test will be multiple choice, matching, etc. Information relating to any of the topics will be fair game. If the topic's page is sufficiently complete I will only ask information that is already available on the page. If a the topic's page is not sufficiently complete or otherwise left blank, there may still be questions on that topic. You will be generally familiar with pages that you worked on (one hopes), but you should also glance at the other pages so that you don't have to click through every page tomorrow. In other words, study. It is "open wiki," but if you have to spend 5 minutes looking up every answer that won't work out well in the end.

Hope you've enjoyed your weekend and are ready for your last few days of classes. It's been a fun class, I don't know that it was as productive as it should have been, but that, of course, would be my fault. Nonetheless it was a fun class brilliantly capped off in a burst and shower of strawberry flavored powdered sugar! (If you weren't there, that was not an esoteric metaphor, I actually mean that quite literally.) I think the world of all of you -- yes, even the couch group! -- and wish you the very best. Most importantly, I pray that in your own time (or God's, depending on your perspective) you do find yourself at home in the glorious, messy, broken, redeemed body we call the church. With all its flaws and failings it remains the bride and body of Christ for whom He died. I'll leave you with a quote in reference Cyprian by Calvin (so I make both Catholics and Protestants in the class, who shall remain Luke nameless, happy!):

“The Church is the mother, and she has the milk and the food that the Father has provided to nourish his adopted children …. This is why the Church is called the mother of believers. And certainly, he who refuses to be a son of the Church desires in vain to have God as his Father. For it is only through the ministry of the Church that God begets sons [and daughters] for Himself and brings them up until they pass through adolescence and reach [adulthood].”

May you in the end find yourselves out of step with this world and at rest among God's people. Amen

Peace and grace,   Mr. Sacasas

History of Christianity -- Dual Enrollment
Welcome to our Wiki. This will be an experiment for you and I both. The idea of a Wiki, the most famous of which of course is Wikipedia, is to create knowledge through collaboration. A community knows more than any single member of that community. By making original contributions and editing the contributions of others, individuals help create a whole greater than what any single member of the community could have produced independently. That's the theory of course. There have naturally been many critics who point out that the openness of a mass endeavor such as Wikipedia also means that people who have no real knowledge are as free to contribute as a seasoned scholar in the field. Prejudice, ideology, and bias are also likely to figure into the equation. This is of course a real danger, but the endeavor is (again in theory) self-correcting -- other members will eventually correct the errors and bias. This actually tends to work fairly well most of the time.

Our little endeavor here of course, will not have all of the dynamics of a mass collaborative effort, but we have more modest ambitions. Throughout the remainder of the quarter we, and yes this includes me, will be creating a class wiki. The goal is to create together a site that will function as a resource for those interested in the history of the church. We will create multiple pages covering persons, movements, texts, events, groups, and more that have been a part of the history of Christianity over the last millennium. Each week I will post a series of pages that will need to be created. Each week log on, pick one, and get to work. In addition, take a look at what your classmates are working on and help them out by editing any mistakes (of fact or style) that you find. Also, look to link your pages to others connect with yours. So for example, if you are making a page on Martin Luther and some one else has written a page on the doctrine of "justification by faith alone" you will want to make sure these pages are appropriately linked. In addition, and this is strongly encouraged, you should look to create any additional pages that will expand or enrich the site. Feel free (and encouraged) as well to include images, videos, links to other documents and pages on the web, etc.

Each week I will be expecting everyone to at least have contributed one well-researched and sourced page and also done some editing on the pages of others.


 * Here are the pages that can be made for this week (April 5-9):**

St. Francis of Assisi St. Dominic Fransiscan Order (Friars Minor) Dominican Order (Friars Preachers) Synod of Sutri -- 1046 Leo IX Hildebrand/Gregory VII Investiture Controversy Urban II Innocent III Fourth Lateran Council Schism of 1054


 * More pages added April 9th:**

First Crusade Fourth Crusade Children's Crusade Thomas Aquinas Scholasticism Abelard John Wycliffe Jan Hus Babylonian Captivity of the Church Great Schism Martin Luther John Calvin Ulrich Zwingli Anabaptists Anglican Church (Church of England) Puritanism Huguenots Council of Trent Counter Reformation Jesuits Thirty Years War

More ....

Blaise Pascal Westminster Assembly Pietism Jonathan Edwards George Whitefield John Wesley Methodism William Carey Charles Finney Friedrich Schleiermacher Charles Hodge Abolitionism Great Awakening Second Great Awakening Soren Kierkegaard B. B. Warfield Abraham Kuyper J. Gresham Machen Scopes Trial