CH006-612

The Reformation

Credit Points 12 Credit Points (CPs)

Learning Outcomes

A. Know and understand

Demonstrate Developing knowledge and understanding of The Reformation.

B. Be able to

  1. Analyse the major developments of the Reformation.
  2. Critically Reflect on current scholarship regarding the contribution of selected people to the Reformation.
  3. Assess selected primary and secondary sources to formulate historical viewpoints on the Reformation.
  4. Present Analytical evidence-based perspectives on the Reformation.

C. Be in a position to

  1. Apply perspectives from current scholarship regarding The Reformation to inform ministry contexts.

Content

  1. Christian history and theology from the high Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
  2. The causes and pre-cursors of the Reformation.
  3. Martin Luther & the German Reformation
  4. Huldrych Zwingli & the Swiss Reformation.
  5. The Anabaptists & the “Radical” Reformation
  6. John Calvin
  7. English Christianity under Henry VIII, Edward VI & Mary I, including the contribution of Cranmer.
  8. The Elizabethan Settlement, Puritanism.
  9. The Reformation in Scotland.
  10. The Counter-Reformation / Catholic Reformation, the Council of Trent & the Jesuits.
  11. The Reformation beyond Germany, Switzerland and Britain.
  12. Later-Reformation developments in Protestantism, to c. 1662.