Dr. Nathan Busenitz of The Master's Seminary teaches the church's story from the Reformation to the modern age: Luther and Calvin, the Puritans, the Great Awakenings, the rise of liberalism, world missions, and the roots of the church you know today.
This course carries the story of the church from the Reformation to the middle of the twentieth century: the pre-reformers and Luther, Zwingli and the Anabaptists, Calvin and the English Reformation, the Puritans, the Great Awakenings on both sides of the Atlantic, the rise of liberalism and the modern missions movement, the American cults, Pentecostalism, and the battle between fundamentalists and modernists that shaped the church we know.
Each lecture below is a full seminary class session, and each has its own page with the video, a study sheet that walks the lecture section by section, links to every Scripture passage discussed, key terms, a comprehension check, discussion questions, and a printable PDF.
Lectures by Dr. Nathan Busenitz, embedded from The Master's Seminary's public channel.
Enrollment is free and optional, and takes a minute: let the church know you are studying.
Optional textbook: The Story of Christian Theology by Roger Olson, the course reading Dr. Busenitz points to throughout the lectures.
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Five questions to set the table: when the Reformation began, what it was about, and why it still matters. About an hour with your Bible open.