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
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