課程簡介
綜觀基督教從初期教會發展到現在世界性宗教的歷史，透過了解過去，發展當前和未來的事工領導力。
作為傳道人、事工領袖、和歷史學者，學員在完成本課程後將能夠：
1. 描述和解釋與基督教歷史從開始到現在的總體發展有關的主要事件。
2. 在整個基督教歷史當中，各種教義的發展史背景之上，對“信徒教會”傳統的理解提供證據。
3. 列舉和討論歷史中基督教領袖所展現的質素。
4. 明白自己所屬的基督教傳統以及其他基督教團體和教派的價值觀和歷史貢獻。
5. 以傳道人、事工領袖、和歷史學者的眼光，觀察當代基督教。
評分
在線參與: 20％
自選時間，觀看預先錄影的講座視頻和參與在線互動，每週約需要3小時。
每週小測驗: 30%
這些小測驗將涵蓋講義材料和指導老師確定的指定閱讀材料。
期中及期末考試: 20％
該測試將涵蓋講義材料和指導老師確定的指定閱讀材料。
論文及報告: 30％
按照導師確定的要求撰寫研究論文，並提交視訊報告。
評分等級
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A
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A-
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94-100
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90-93
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B+
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B
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B-
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87-89
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84-86
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80-83
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C+
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C
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C-
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77-79
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74-76
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70-73
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D+
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D
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D-
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67-69
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64-66
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60-63
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F
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0-59
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講座與作業
本課程為期12星期，學員需要每週自選方便的最多4小時觀看預先錄影的講座視頻和參與在線互動、參與開卷的在線測驗、期中考試及期末考試。
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周
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講座
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閱讀
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作業
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1
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初期教會I
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陶 1-54
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Quiz
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2
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初期教會II
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陶 55-136
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Quiz
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3
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羅馬國教時代I
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陶 137-186
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Quiz
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4
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羅馬國教時代II
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陶 187-224
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Quiz
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5
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中古時代I
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陶 225-259
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Quiz
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6
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中古時代II
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陶 260-306
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Mid-term Exam
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7
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宗教改革 I
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陶 351-387
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Quiz
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8
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宗教改革 II
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陶 388-434
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Quiz
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9
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十七世紀
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陶 435-465
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Quiz
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10
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十八世紀
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陶 466-506
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Quiz
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9/1
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十九世紀
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陶 507-580
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Quiz
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12
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二十世紀
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陶 581-671
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Final Exam
Research Paper
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必備課本
陶理博士主編，李伯明、林牧野譯，《基督教二千年史:自第一世紀至當代》(香港：海天書樓， 2012)。
祁伯爾著，李林靜芝譯，《歷史的軌跡: 二千年教會史 The Church in History》(台北：校園，2001)。
梁家麟著，《基督教會史略：改變教會的十人十事》(香港：更新資源，2018)。
胡斯托·岡薩雷斯著，趙城艺譯，《基督教史 The Story of Christianity》 (上海：三聯書店，2010)
胡斯托·岡薩雷斯著，胡宏志譯，《教會歷史 要點指南 Church History: An Essential Guide》(台灣：聖經資源中心，2011)
布鲁斯·雪莱著，刘平译，《基督教会史(第二版) Church History in Plain Language》 (北京：北京大学出版社，2004)
比爾·奧斯汀著，許建人、馬傑偉譯，《基督敎發展史 Topical History of Christianity》 (香港：種籽出版社，2002)
Additional Helpful Books for the Study of Church History
Collections of Primary Sources
Baillie, John; McNeill, John T.; and VanDusen, Henry P., eds. The Library of Christian Classics. 26 vols. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1953-69.
Bettenson, Henry and Chris Maunder, eds. Documents of the Christian Church. 3d. ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1999.
McKinion, Steven A., ed. Life and Practice in the Early Church: A Documentary Reader. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
Petry, Ray C., ed. A History of Christianity: Readings in the History of the Church, vol. 1: The Early and Medieval Church. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1981.
Schaff, Philip, ed. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. 1st series.14 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1956.
___________ and David Wace, eds. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. 2d series. 14 vols. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1952.
Surveys of Church History
Chadwick, Owen. A History of Christianity. New York: St. Martin Press, 1995
Christie-Murray, David. A History of Heresy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Comby, Jean. How to Read Church History, Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the fifteenth century. New York: Crossroad Publishing, 1989.
Gonzalez, Justo L. The Story of Christianity 2 vols. Revised and Updated ed. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.
Gonzalez, Justo L. Church History, An Essential Guide. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996.
Latourette, Kenneth Scott. A History of Christianity, rev. ed. 2 vols. New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
_____________________. A History of the Expansion of Christianity. 7 vols. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Press, 1970.
McManners, John, ed. The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Moffett, Samuel Hugh. A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol: Beginnings to 1500. San Franciso: Harper, 1991.
Neill, Stephen. Christian Missions (vol. 6 in The Pelican History of the Church). New York: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1964.
Noll, Mark. Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2000
Shelley, Bruce L. Church History in Plain Language. Waco: Word Books Publisher, 1995.
Tucker, Ruth A. And Walter Liefeld. Daughters of the Church: Women and Ministry from New Testament Times to the Present. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1987.
Ware, Timothy. The Orthodox Church, new ed. London: Penguin Books, 1997.
Woodbridge, John and Frank A. James III. Church History, Volume Two: From Pre-Reformation to the Present Day: The Rise and Growth of the Church in Its Cultural, Intellectual, and Political Context. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013.
Bainton, R. H. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1977
Cameron, Euan. The European Reformation. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991
Collinson, Patrick. The Elizabethan Puritan Movement. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1967
Dickens, A. G. The English Reformation. 2nd ed. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1989.
Duffy, Eamon. The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
____________. The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Durnbaugh, Donald. The Believers’ Church: The History and Character of Radical Protestantism. New York: the Macmillan Company, 1968.
Estep, W. R. The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.
George, Timothy. Theology of the Reformers. Nashville: Broadman, 1998.
Hillerbrand, Hans J. The Division of Christendom: Christianity in the Sixteenth Century. Louisville, WJKP, 2009.
Jones, Norman L. The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. The Reformation: History. New York: Penguin Group, 2004.
McGrath, Alister E. A Life of John Calvin: A Study in the Shaping of Western Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.
________________. Reformation Thought: An Introduction, 1999.
Ozment, Steven E. The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.
Williams, George. H. The Radical Reformation, 3rd ed. Kirksville: Sixteenth Century Publishers, 1992.
Yarnell, Malcolm B. ed. The Anabaptists and Contemporary Baptists: Restoring New Testament Christianity. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2013
History of Christian Doctrine
Bengt, Hagglund. History of Theology. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1968.
Gonzalez, Justo L. A History of Christian Thought. 3 vols. Nashville: Abingdon, 1975; rev. 1987.
Grenz, Stanley, and Roger Olson, 20th Century Theology: God and the World in a Transitional Age. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1992.
Henry, Patrick, ed. Schools of Through in the Christian Tradition. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984.
Holmes, Stephen R. Baptist Theology. New York: T & T Clark, 2012.
Kelly, J. N. D. Early Christian Doctrines. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1965.
McGrath, Alister E. Historical Theology: An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
Olson, Roger E. The Mosaic of Christian Belief: Twenty Centuries of Unity and Diversity. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2002.
Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine. 5 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.
Tillich, Paul. A History of Christian Thought. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969
Evangelicalism and World Christianity
Bebbington, D. W. Evangelicalism in Modern Britain: A History from the 1730s to the 1980. London: Unwin Hyman Ltd, 1989.
Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
Moffett, Samuel Hugh. A History of Christianity in Asia. 2 vols. New Yoark: Orbis books, 1998, 2005.
Murray, Ian H. Evangelicalism Divided: A Record of Crucial Change in the Years 1950 to 2000. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2000.
Noll, Mark. The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys. Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 2004.
Sanneh, Lamin. Translating the Message: The Missionary Impact on Culture. New York: Orbis Books, 1989.
Walls, Andrew. The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith. New York: Orbis Books, 1996.
