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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...

At the heart of deconstructionism is what’s called the “hermeneutic of suspicion,” the idea that we ought to approach texts with a certain suspicion about their misuses, about their ideological tendencies and even, in theology, idolatrous tendencies. Dominant people groups often tend to use texts and writing and interpreting them to oppress others, the disadvantaged.