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Topics

(These topics are largely taken from Chapter 13 in An Introduction to Christianity. Alister E. McGrath. Blackwell Publishers, Cambridge. 1997)

Intellectual Movements that Influenced Western Christianity

Rationalism

Romanticism

Marxism

Christianity in Europe: The French Revolution 

Christianity in America: The "Great Awakening" and the American Revolution 

The Development of Catholicism after 1800

Ultramontanism

The Rise of Catholic Modernism

The Second Vatican Council

The Development of Protestantism after 1800

Liberal Protestantism

Neo-Orthodoxy

The Rise of Fundamentalism

The Emergence of Evangelicalism

The Rise of Charismatic and Pentecostal Movements