368SYLL.97

RELIGION 368: The Protestant and Catholic Reformations

Fall 1997 Professor Stephen Boyd

Wednesday 1:00-3:00 Wingate 206 boyd@wfu.edu

Office Hours: Tuesday 3:00-4:00

Wingate 207 ext. 5458

Requirements:

Oral: Two brief (10-15 minute) presentations on the major themes and implications of particular primary texts.
Written: There will be three kinds of written assignments:

Two short (3 page) papers summarizing each of your oral presentations and the discussions;
a research paper (18-25 pages for graduate students and 10-15 pages for undergraduates) on a particular topic of interest to you; Due: December 3

3. A take-home final exam

Evaluation:

Presentations/class participation 15%; Short papers 10%;10%; Research paper 30%; Final exam 35%

Class Schedule:

August 27 Course Requirements and Introduction

September 3 Late Medieval Christianity:

Theology, Confession and Preaching Traditions;

Social and Political Grievances: Lindberg, ch2

Late-Medieval Mysticism: Catherine of Siena,"Treatise" 270-82

10 Renaissance Humanism:

Erasmus: "Paraclesis" (xerox) and "Sileni Alcibindis" (xerox)

17 Luther

Early Life and Theology: Lindberg, ch.3

Dillenberger,Selections, 3-12;489-503 ;14-34, 42-98

24 Development of the Reformation: Lindberg, chs. 4&9

Dillenberger,166-206,363-402

October 1 Sacramental Theology and Confessional Divergence Lindberg, ch.7

Luther, "Confession on Christ's Supper" (xerox)

Zwingli, "On the Lord's Supper" (xerox)

8 Reformed Tradition: Calvin--Career and Predestination

Institutes, 289-309;920-32 (xerox)

Dillenberger, Selections, 229-44, 472-506

15 Radicals

Revolutionaries and Spiritualists: Lindberg, chs. 5&6

Williams, 47-70; 86-111

22 Anabaptists

Williams, 39-46; 71-85; 136-44

Sattler, "Schleitheim Confession"

Marpeck, Confession (xerox)

29 Women and Protestantism

Lindberg, 363-71

Douglas, "Women and the Continental Reformation" (xerox)

"Women in the Reformation" (xerox) [Luther, Estate of Marriage & Genesis; Calvin, Institutes; Elizabeth of Leeuwarden, Martyrdom]

November 5 English Reformation

Lindberg, ch. 13

Cranmer, "On the Sacrament" (xerox)

Hooker, Laws, ch. 56-57 (xerox)

10 Topic and Bibliography Due

12 Puritanism and Separatism

Fulke, "Brief Declaration" (xerox)

19 Catholic Reformation

Lindberg, 14

Savonarola, "On the Reform of the Church" (xerox)

Decrees of the Council of Trent (xerox)

December 3 Post-Tridentine Catholicism: Jesuits

Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises

Liebowitz, "Virgins in the Service of Christ" (xerox)

Jeanne de Jussie, "Rise of Calvinism" (xerox)

Paper Due