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A thousand years of the medieval church, from the East–West schism and scholastic philosophy to the first stirrings of reform.
This course covers the schism of 1054, the crusades and the rise of the mendicant orders; the formation of scholastic theology and of the universities, represented by Anselm and Thomas Aquinas; the decline of the late-medieval papacy and the crisis of the church; and the struggle of the forerunners of the Reformation, from Wycliffe through to Hus.
It is written for lay members and ministers who want an honest account of a thousand years too easily dismissed as a dark age. It explains the structural reasons the Reformation had to happen, and offers the achievements and the failures of the medieval church as a mirror for ministry and Christian life today.
This is a history of institutions and ideas; the introduction says plainly what it leaves out. Scripture is quoted from the World English Bible. Technical terms are kept and explained where they first appear rather than left to a glossary.