2023-2024 Seminary and Graduate Catalog

MIN 513 Historical Perspectives on Church & Culture

This course will provide an overview of the history of Christianity from the patristic era to the modern day with a focus on how Christians addressed challenging issues, such as slavery, sexuality, war, and gender. The course will explore the ways that global Christians have negotiated their faith at various times in different circumstances and ways in which Christians have developed orthodoxy, orthopathy, and orthopraxy. This course will foster a historically informed perspective on students’ approaches to addressing contemporary issues facing the Church. 

Credits

3

Prerequisite

None