Graduate Certificate of Episcopal Studies Review
The Early Church
This lecture includes a survey of the New Testament Church between the years 30 AD and 180 AD. It includes a discussion on the Jewish Sectarian Movement, Rival Messiahs to Jesus, the Apostolic Didachee and the Diatesseron.
From Constantine to Charlemagne
This lecture reaches back to the Diocletian Persecution of the Church, The Rise of Constantine, The Fall of Rome, The Birth of Islam, The Iconoclast Controversy and the collusion of the church and state under Charlemagne and Pope Leo III.
From the Crusades to the Protestant Reformation
In this final lecture we review the launch of the Crusades in the 11th century, The Sacking of Constantinople, The Work of John Wycliff, The Development of the English Bible and the start of the Protestant Reformation, include the "Counter-Reformation led by Ignatius of Loyola.
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