Università Roma Tre

Outlines of Church history in modern age (XIX-XX century)
The course will provide the basic outlines of the Church history’s principal events and problematic nodes in the modern age, in particular from the French revolution to the renewal begun by the second Vatican Council. It will pay particular attention to the historiography’s principal debates, the discipline’s technical language, the discussed subjects’ contextualization, the principal religious institutions’ significance and role, the interactions with the society and the culture. In order to introduce the students to the literature and documents’ critical approach, it will confront the historiographical debates and it will spend much time for documents’ reading and comment about the discussed subjects also with use of the maps, graphics and iconographic sources and another audiovisual tools.

- G. MARTINA, Storia della Chiesa da Lutero ai nostri giorni. 3. L'età del liberalismo, Brescia, Morcelliana, 1995, pp. 14-309.
- G. MARTINA, Storia della Chiesa da Lutero ai nostri giorni. 4. L'età contemporanea, Brescia, Morcelliana, 1995, pp. 13-80; 129-347.

An introduction to the Ancient Christianity
The course intends to provide an outline of Ancient Christianity’s history, from the beginnings (Jesus of Nazareth and the Judaic milieu) to the early seventh century (Gregory the Great) in its political and cultural context and in its doctrinal, religious, ritual and institutional development, across a critical reading of sources and historiography.
It will give ample space to documents’ reading and comment about the discussed subjects, dealing with methodological questions and giving ample space to historiografical debate, also with use of the maps, graphics and iconographic sources and another audiovisual tools.

- Dossier of documents provided from the teacher.
- G. JOSSA, Il Cristianesimo antico: dalle origini al concilio di Nicea, Roma, Carocci, 2006.
- Storia del Cristianesimo, a cura di G. FILORAMO - D. MENOZZI, Vol. I. L’antichità, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 1997 e successive ristampe, pp. 275-442.