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Course Sample for Our Church History Homeschool Course

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Church History
By Steffanie Howard
Week One

Day One: Introduction to Church History

What is Church History? Church history studies the roots and origin of the Christian church. However, the study is not limited to the church itself, but to all influences in history that have impacted the church, and likewise, the movements in history that the church has impacted.

Our study will begin in the Old Testament to provide us with the necessary background to the formation of the New Testament Church around 33 A.D, and will continue on to present day.

What Will This Course Be Like?

This class has been prepared with special consideration to Christians of all denominations and without intentional bias to one Christian group over another. Students will be studying church history from the men and women who were present in the different ages of history and recorded it themselves. Students will study the development of all prominent denominations.

As such, students and parents should be aware that some of the reading material will present a worldview that is disagreeable to you. To teach church history in light of all of the historical evidence and to thoroughly understand how the church got its shape, it is necessary for students to read some texts that present a different worldview. Some of the works will be agreeable to all Christians; some will be disagreeable to all Christians. Others were written unfavorably to specific denominations. All of these works will be highlighted and will have a warning beside the referral, stating which groups may be sensitive to the material.

All work may be submitted for grading, but this is not a required component of the course. For those who will be submitting work for grading, there will be two large projects in this class, in addition to regular weekly assignments and occasional short quizzes.

Concluding the study of the Reformation, students will be given the opportunity to offer their theological rebuttals to the historians who wrote the works they read through this period.

A final project at the end of the year will allow students to use their desired medium. Students may choose a visual art, performing art, writing, speech, filmmaking, or any other outlet that he or she enjoys to demonstrate a person, group, or period in history that had the most impact on them through the course.