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CH152 Introducing Historical Theology: Luther to the Twenty-First Century is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this course, you’ll begin by studying the Catholic church and its theology on the cusp of the Protestant Reformation, setting the stage for the work of Luther, Calvin, and other Protestant Reformers. You’ll continue on to study the post-Reformation period and various Christian movements such as Pietism, Puritanism, and Methodism. A study of modernity, beginning with the Enlightenment and the...

Friedrich Schleiermacher believed that if Christianity was to survive the acids of modernity and was going to respond helpfully to the challenges of Hume and Kant and Hegel and other Enlightenment philosophers, it had to change. Theology could not simply be done in the context of the Enlightenment in the same way that it had been done before, for example, by the Protestant Scholastics of the seventeenth century.