From Jesus to Luther (online course only)

From Jesus to Luther
Orientation week Sept. 9-12
Course Sessions: Sept. 13 - Nov. 21, 2024

Textbook: The Story of Christianity, Volume 1, Justo G. Gonzalez [Click here to purchase]

 This online companion course provides wonderful input and support. The lectures are given by Dr. Carl Volz, Professor emeritus of Church History at Luther Seminary, St Paul. The facilitator for this course is Pr. Adam Wutka. he has been serving ELCA congregations in central Kansas for the past sixteen years, currently at St. Mark Lutheran Church in Great Bend, KS. In addition to teaching in his own congregations, he has organized and taught in an area-wide Lutheran Confirmation ministry, taught Latin and basic electronics in the local homeschool co-op, has taught multiple classes to adult lay ministry students in his synod, and has previously facilitated this course and others through Select Learning. Since 2020, Pastor Adam also serves part time on the staff of the Central States Synod as the director of Lay ministry, overseeing the synod's Parish Ministry Associate program.

 
Access to the class site and orientation information will be given a few days before the class orientation week.

This course provides a historical account of the development, struggles and progressions of the early church from the Ascension to just before the reformations of the church.
The course structure includes watching the recorded lectures, text book readings, posting weekly essays online and participating in threaded discussions
Sessions:

1.    Beginnings:  The Fullness of Time (49 min.)
2.    The First Great Preachers of the Faith (50 min.)
3.    Persecution and Piety (49 min.)
4.    Establishing the Faith of the Church (51 min.)
5.    Monasticism and the Fathers of the Church (50 min.)
6.    Early Missionary Movements (50 min.)
7.    The Church in Turmoil:  West and East (50 min.)
8.    The Papacy and the Empire (51 min.)
9.    Struggles, Theological and Political (50 min.)
10.    Reforming Efforts before the Reformation (52 min.)

Textbook:  The Story of Christianity, Volume 1, Justo G. Gonzalez [Click here to purchase]

CLICK HERE for the syllabus.