1. Dr. Ann T. Orlando 16 January 2019
Class 1: Introduction
Dr. Ann T. Orlando
16 January 2019

2. Welcome Back to Church History
Review Syllabus
Structure of course
Requirements
Course Web Site
My agenda/perspective/prejudices

3. Class Structure Six Parts
Lectures
Primary Source Readings
Ref to Hitchcock
Five Short Papers at conclusion of Parts I – V based on primary sources
One Long Paper and panel discussion based on selected book analysis

4. Book Selection Choose One by Feb 27: Read Selection by Mar 22
Brad Gregory. The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society. Cambridge: Belknap Press, (Chapters)
D. A. Brading, Mexican Phoenix, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Ruth Harris, Lourdes, New York: Penguin, 1999.
David Kertzer, The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, New York: Vintage, 1997.
John McGreevy, Catholicism and American Freedom, New York: W. W. Norton, 2003.
Read Selection by Mar 22
Topics for panels and papers by April 26
Panels last week of class

5. Requirements Class attendance and active participation.
Preparation of Short Papers and class discussion
Preparation of Long Paper and panel discussion
Two Exams:
Quiz I covering Parts I and II (closed book)
Quiz II covering Parts III, IV and V (closed book)
NO FINAL
Grade:
1/3 short papers, discussion, panel and final presentation
1/3 each quiz

6. Texts for Class
James Hitchcock, History of the Catholic Church (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2012)
John Vidmar, The Catholic Church Through the Ages (New Jersey: Paulist Press, 2005)
Thomas Bokenkotter, A Concise History of the Catholic Church (New York: Doubleday, 2004).
Norman Tanner, A New Short History of the Catholic Church (London: Barnes & Oates, 2011)
Peter Armenio, History of the Church (The Didache Series), (Midwest Theological Forum, 2005)
John O’Malley, A History of the Popes (Maryland: Sheed & Ward, 2010)
Diarmaid MacCulloch, Christianity, the First Three Thousand Years (New York: Viking, 2010)
Manu readings from: Carter Lindberg, Editor. The European Reformations Sourcebook. (Malden: Blackwell, 2000.)

7. Web Site for Class http://web.mit.edu/aorlando/www/SaintJohnCHII/
Several files
Word file of syllabus
Lecture slides; posted day after each lecture, in a folder called Lectures; PowerPoint format
Scanned readings
This is not a pretty web site

8. Primary Sources
Different, multiple sources each week; should be focus of papers
Read everything critically (includes secondary sources)
What is author’s perspective
What issues is author addressing; how important is the historical circumstance to those issues
Who is the audience
What is genre of the work (homily, thesis, poem, letter, Biblical commentary)
Caution using Web Resources
Anybody can put anything on the web and claim that it is ‘authoritative’
Many texts are available, but in older translations
Maintenance of a web resource is still on an individual basis; no guarantee that information will be well maintained
And if you use a web resource you must reference it

9. My Agenda
Apologetic
I believe that the Truth is most fully expressed in Magisterium of the Catholic Church
But the expression (emphasis) of that Truth may change with historical circumstances
My interest in ecclesial history is to work at understanding the pilgrim Church’s role in (Western) society today
The Church’s self-understanding
The ‘World’s’ understanding of the Church
I am not primarily interested in:
16th C German religion/politics/society
17th C French religion/politics/society
18th C English religion/politics/society
19th – 20th C American religion/politics/society

10. My Historical Judgement (Prejudices)
Importance of Spain in 16th – 19th C
What is most important about the 16th C
Northern European Revolts (aka Reformation)
Catholic Renewal
Catholic Christianity becomes a world-wide religion and dominant
Importance of the 17th C
Beginning of modernity
What’s most important in 18th C
American Revolution not French Revolution