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Greco-Roman Backgrounds

• Alexander the Great (356 to 323 BC)
• The Hellenistic Kingdoms
• Caesar Augustus (31 BC to 14 AD)
• The Early Roman Empire
  • Tiberius
  • Gaius Caligula
  • Claudius
  • Nero
• Ancient Greek Religion
  • The Epic Age: Homer
  • The Gods
  • Sanctuaries
• Religion in Hellenist-Roman Times
• Emperor Worship
• Death and the Afterlife
• Greek Mysteries and Eastern Religions
• The Dionysiac Mysteries
• Mystery Religions and Christianity
• Hellenistic Philosophy
• Socrates
• Plato
• Aristotle
• Early Stoicism
• Stoic Thought
• Middle Platonism

150 BC to 174 AD

• Greco-Roman Background to the Emergence of the Church
• Jewish Background to the Emergence of the Church
• The Apostolic Era
• The Close of the Apostolic Era
• Early Christologies: The Interpretation of Jesus
• Gentile Christianity in the Second Century AD
• Christianity and the Roman Government
• The Apologists

175 to 324 AD

• Gnosticism
• Origins of Gnosticism
• Gnostic Literature
• Characteristics of Gnosticism
• Gnosticism and the New Testament
• Marcion
• Montanism
• The Catholic Church
• Irenaeus of Lyon
• Tertullian
• The Alexandrian School
• The Organizational Development of the Church
• Growth and Persecutions

325 to 439 AD

• The Arian Controversy and the Nicean Council
• The Council of Constantinople
• The Germanic Invasions
• Jerome
• Augustine

440 to 1384 AD

• Christianity and the Frankish Kingdom
• Christian Expansion in the Early Middle Ages
• The Crusades
• Early Scholasticism
• Higher Scholasticism
• John Wyclif

1385 to 1564 AD

• Martin Luther
• Ulrich Zwingli
• John Calvin

The Enlightenment

Modern Christianity

Post-Modern Christianity