Week 1: Themes in the Recent World History of Christianity

Over the course of the twentieth century the Christian faith for the first time became truly global. This class examines seven prominent themes of that twentieth-century history, like mission, living under Islam, Christian nationalism—with the focus for each theme on two different events or world regions: mission (Second Vatican Council, Lausanne), living under Islam (Egypt, Indonesia), Christian nationalism (Korea, Poland). The class is inspired by an excellent recent book, Brian Stanley’s Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History.