The Church Takes Shape: A Study of Church History Teachers Guide Lutheran High School Religion Series

by Sauer, Robert

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Item #: 222278POD / 1988 / Paperback / 90 Pages

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This high school level course presents highlights of the activities of God's church from the time of Augustine until today. Students will see how human sinfulness caused people to turn to their own way, but again and again God brought them back to His way. This course includes sessions on the Crusades, the Reformation, the rationalism/pietism struggle, the influence of millennialism, the advent of Christianity in America, and the development of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. Includes 45 sessions.

In addition to the Teacher Guide, you will need a copy of the Student Book, a Bible, and a copy of the Augsburg Confession.

The content covered in the course is divided into five units.

Unit 1: Power Plays in the Early Centuries

The Gospel, the Power of God
Augustine’s City of God and Its Consequences
Islam and Iconoclasm
Monasticism: Escape from or to Reality?
The Papacy: The Peak of Power
The Crusades: “God Wills It”?
Schism, Seven Sacraments, and Scholasticism
The Babylonian Captivity of the Church and the Early Reformers
Reformation Eve: East and West

Unit 2: The Reformation Era

Luther’s Early Life
Luther: Monk and Priest
Indulgences and Theses
Luther the Writer
Other Reformers
Luther and His Family
Zwingli and Calvin
The Reformation Spreads
The Formula of Concord

Unit 3: Christianity after the Reformation

Pietism
Methodism, Rationalism, and Deism
Christians Come to America
Religious Revivals in Early America
19th-Century Mission Activities
The Church and Social Issues
19th-Century Threats to Christianity
Fundamentalists Battle Evolutionism

Unit 4: Christianity in the 20th Century

Lutherans Come to America
Growth of the Missouri Synod
Kierkegaard, Barth, and Lewis
Vatican II
Historical Criticism
Church Unions
The Charismatic Movement
The Television Evangelists
The New Evangelicals

Unit 5: The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod Today

Doctrinal Controversy in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
Mission Activities of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
Training Professional Church Worker in the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
Social Ministry in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod

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