Historical Studies

An opportunity for middler and senior students to explore a question, challenge, issue or concern more fully. The student approaches a faculty member in the preferred area of study to […]

This course focuses on current issues facing Reformation historians and theologians. Intellectual, economic, political and religious aspects of the age are examined. By incorporating “secular” issues into the study, an […]

This course examines anti-Semitism in the Christian community from New Testament times through the Holocaust. It explores how this has been manifested in literature, i.e., theology, laws, art, and drama. […]

This course examines early North African Christian theology from its beginnings through the time of Augustine. The different theological climates that existed in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Northwestern Africa are studied. […]

This course examines Christian attitudes toward gender and sexuality from the first to the fifth century. It examines the Old and New Testaments, and the Church Fathers. Consideration is given […]

An introduction to the major persons and ideas that have helpedshapethecontentanddirectionofvariousdenominationsandreligiousgroupsinAmerica. Attentionisgiventothewaysin which various theological notions interfaced with and often helped shape the social, political, economic, and racial views and […]

This course is designed to introduce students to the historical development of the A.M.E. Church and the thought of its leadership. This is done in the context of an evaluation […]

This course continues to examine the doctrines, belief systems and people who continually reshaped the Christian message which was passed from one generation to the next. The focus of the […]

This course examines the doctrines, belief systems, and people who continually reshaped the Christian message, which was passed from one generation to the next. This focus of this class is […]