DESCRIPTION: This course surveys the history of Christianity around the world from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Additional attention will be given to the transitional process of Christianity moving from a western to a world religion and major themes and events that dominated the process. The class is conducted mainly in the Korean language for students whose native tongue is Korean.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: (1) Students will be able to identify and explain many of the principal theological developments and historical events and personalities that have shaped the modern church since the Protestant and Catholic Reformation. (2) Students will demonstrate through presentation and writing assignments the ability to think critically about historical texts and arguments, placing them in context. (3) Students will demonstrate through presentation and writing assignments an ability to interpret their own ecclesiastical tradition and other traditions with critical awareness and reflection. (4) Students will be challenged in some of their religious assumptions by the complexity and diversity of Christian history and through this process will develop a greater understanding of and sensitivity toward the beliefs and practices of churches in different cultural and social contexts.

RELEVANCE FOR MINISTRY: The course should help students gain better understanding of contemporary churches around the world and develop sensitivity toward different cultural and social contexts in which Christian churches have been formed and are operating.

COURSE FORMAT: The class will meet twice weekly for three-hour sessions in lecture, presentation, and discussion format. The Korean language will be used for all lectures, discussions, and assignments.

REQUIRED READING (all available in Korean):

Dupré, Louis and Don E. Sailers. Christian Spirituality: Post Reformation and Modern. New York: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1991. (Translated into three separate volumes; volume 3 of the translation only; translated by Um, Sung Oak and In Sung Ji; published by Eunsung, 2001.)

Gonzalez, Justo L. The Story of Christianity. New York, New York: Harper Collins, 1985. (Translated into four separate volumes; volume on Modern Church History only; translated by Suh, Young Il; published by Eun Sung, 1995.)

Kim, Sang Kun. Korean Title [Christian History that Changed World History]. Seoul: Pyung Dan Mun Wha Sa, 2004.

Available in Korean:

Chou, Chai-Yong and David Kwang-Sun Suh, eds. Korean Title [History and Theology]. Seoul: Korea Theological Study Institute, 1986.

Chu, Jae Yong, ed. and trans. Korean Title [Asian Context and Theology]. Seoul: The Christian Literature Society, 1987.

Cone, James H. God of the Oppressed. 1975. (Translated by Hyun, Young Hak; published by Ewha Women's University Press, 1979.)

Lee, Oo-Chung, ed. Korean Title [ Feminist Theology]. Seoul: Korea Theological Study Institute, 1985.

Mackintosh, Hugh Ross. Types of Modern Theology. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1967. (Translated by Kim, Jae Jun; published by the Christian Literature Society, 1994.)

Muzorewa, Gwinyai H. The Origin and Development of African Theology. Wipf & Stock, 2000. (Translated by Cho, Dong Wha; published by Korea Theological Study Institute, 1987.)

Suh, Chang Won. The Third World Theology. Seoul: Dae han gidokkyo suh whe, 1993.

Available in English:

Bay, Daniel H., ed. Christianity and China: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Stanford University Press, 1996.

Clendenin, Daniel B. Eastern Orthodox Christianity: A Western Perspective. Baker Academic, 2003.

Freston, Paul. Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Cambridge, 2001.

Froehle, Bryan T., and Mary L. Gautier. Global Catholicism: Portrait of a World Church. Orbis, 2003.

Hastings, Adrian. The Church in Africa, 1450-1950. Oxford University Press, 1995.

Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. Oxford University Press, 2002.

______. God's Continent: Christianity, Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Kwok, Pui Lan. Chinese Women and Christianity, 1860-1927. Scholars Press, 1992.

Robert, Dana L. Gospel Bearers, Gender Barriers. Orbis, 2002.

Sanneh, Lamin. Whose Religion is Christianity? The Gospel Beyond the West. Eerdmans, 2003.

Walls, Andrew F. The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History. Orbis, 2002.