CH-301 Church History for Evangelicals

Follow the evangelical line through the whole story of the church, from the martyrs to the world church of today, and find your own place in it.

Following Church History for Evangelicals, this course reads the story in three parts. First come the early church and the Middle Ages: persecution, the church fathers and the creeds, Constantine, the monks and the medieval scholars. Then come the Reformations and the movements that gave evangelicals their shape, from Luther and the Anabaptists to the Pietists and the Evangelical Awakening. Last come mission and the world church, and the great shift of Christianity to the Global South.

What you will study

• Martyrs and the cost of following Christ
• The church fathers, the false teachings they answered, and the creeds
• Constantine, and church and state joined together
• Monks and scholars: what they gave the church, and where they went wrong
• Luther, the Anabaptists and the cost of division
• Pietism and the Evangelical Awakening of Wesley and Whitefield
• Missionary societies, Bible translation and social reform
• Pentecostal renewal and the rise of the church in the Global South

Course materials

• Church History for Evangelicals, a WWES textbook
• The Bible