Class Christian Churches and Christianity

The UC aims to provide useful tools and methods for understanding the fundamental and most significant issues in the history of Christianity and churches, following their development in a diachronic perspective and open to comparison with the evolution of political, social, cultural and artistic history. Christian Churches and Christianity are approached within a current context of questioning about the religious phenomenon; students will be invited to question the "official histories" of Christianity, in the light of the differences or differences over it, know the Bible and the formation of the Church(es), over the centuries; Interaction with students seeks to bring to light the power relations behind what is orthodox and heresy. Knowing the historical events of the life of Jesus and the faith in Christ, and the history (s) of the Christian Church (s), it is possible to theorize, starting from the results of the ecumenical dialogue, on the Church of the future.

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1. Christianity: Origins, History and Religion. 2. Historical Jesus and Academic Research. 3. Jesus, the Founding Figure and the Christ of Faith. 4. Resurrection of Christ: starting point and witness. 5. Expansion of Christianity and the Judeo-Apocalyptic Paradigm. The first Christian communities and the Apostolic Church. 6. Paul and the ecumenical-Hellenistic paradigm. Pauline theology. “Corpus Paulinum”. 7. Humanism, Renaissance, Luther and the evangelical Protestant paradigm. Counter-Reformation in the Catholic Church and the Council of Trent. 8. Christian Culture: convergences and divergences. 9. Ecumenical Dialogue: which Church(s)? 10. New challenges for Christianity.

Students will be confronted with the approach, hermeneutics and discussion of biblical texts in order to understand their importance throughout the two millennia of Christian faith in the world, as well as other historical documents. They will also be introduced to the diversity of Christian religious music and its historical evolution in the Church. 

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