WORLD HISTORY II CLASS PAGE: 2007-2008
About World History I
World History is an enormous topic and many men have spent their lifetimes studying even very small parts of it. For this reason, I have chosen to put this summary of World History into a two year course. Even this is not enough time to do any part of that history justice. However, it is, I think, enough time to accomplish the goals of this course. Knowledge of history is the foundation of culture and when you realize that your heritage goes back to our first father, Adam, the complexity of this culture is both inspiring and terrifying. Studying history is a great privilege and a great responsibility.
The goals I have set out for this course are, I believe, modest and yet sufficient. First, the course follows the course of redemption history in its story. In doing this the outline of history will focus on the center of history, the coming of Jesus Christ the Son of God. While doing this, the students will read primary sources from the Bible first and then from historians near to the times they themselves record. Finally, this scheme of study history will yield a general scheme of history in which the major events both Biblical and extra-Biblical are placed in chronological order. An outline of history organized by redemption history and studied from the primary sources.
To be continued…
*SYLLABUS IN PROCESS
1. 9/10 Read and outline the book of Acts
2. 9/17 Read and outline the books of Romans and Hebrews
3. 9/24 Read Josephus Wars of the Jews books 1-2
4. 10/1 Read Josephus Wars of the Jews books 3-4
5. 10/8 Read Josephus Wars of the Jews books 5-6
6. 10/15 Read Josephus Wars of the Jews book 7
7. 10/22 Read Josephus Antiquities books 17-18
8. 11/5 Read Eusebius Ecclesiastical History-- first half (write historical fiction set in first century AD)
9. 11/12 Read Eusebius Ecclesiastical History -- second half
Thanksgiving Week Holiday
10. 11/26 Read the Rule of St. Augustine and the Rule of St. Benedict
11. 12/3 Read Boethius Consolation of Philosophy
12. 12/10 Read Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation-- first third
13. 12/17 Read Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation-- second third
Christmas Break--Two Weeks
14. 1/7 Read Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation
15. 1/14 Read the Lives of Charlemagne by Einhard and Notker the Stammerer-- finish (First Term Research Paper Due)
16. 1/21 Read the Chronicles of the Crusades: Elizabeth Hallam, Chapters 1-4
17. 1/28 Read the Chronicles of the Crusades: Elizabeth Hallam, Chapters 5-8
18. 2/4 Read Late Medieval Sources, Langland and Chaucer (probably)
19. 2/11 Read Late Medieval Sources, Langland and Chaucer (probably)
20. 2/18 Read Luther's To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, The Babylonian Captivity of the Church
21. 2/25 Read Luther's The Freedom of a Christian and Calvin's Prefertory Address to the King (on the Clergy), and Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy
22. 3/3 Book of Common Prayer and 39 Articles
23. 3/10 Westminster Confession of Faith
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Easter Week (no tutorials)
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26. 4/7 Covenant & Crisis in American History
27. 4/14 Covenant & Crisis in American History
28. 4/21 .......
29. 4/28 William Shirer, Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
30. 5/5 trans. Louis P. Lochner, The Goebbels Diaries 1942-1943
31. 5/12 The
Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, Philip
Jenkins
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World History Resources
Online Bible: be sure to get the ABC’s of Biblical Archeology, Maps, and Biblical Chronology collections. This is “freeware.”