Università Roma Tre

1st module
The course will explore fundamental questions through a thematic approach.
What is still possible to know about Jesus’person and message) ? Through what processes did a model of Christianity succeed to impose itself on the others? How did change through time the relationship between Christianity and Judaism? What kind of relationship did Christianity establish with political power during these first centuries? How did Christian communities develop their organizational stuctures and how did they establish hierarchies? How did cult, liturgy and theological thought develop themselves? What was the canon formation like? How did Christians christianize times and sites?
During the course we will visit significant Christian historical sites.

2nd module
In this year 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, studied in parallelism with the other Christian religious confessions. It will pay particular attention to methodological aspects, privileging the documents’ reading and making use of maps, graphics and iconographic sources. It will pay particular attention to the historiography’s principal debates, the discussed subjects’ contextualization, the discipline’s technical language, the interactions between the religious institutions and the society and the culture.

E.Prinzivalli (a cura di), Storia del cristianesimo. 1. L’età antica (secoli I-VII), Carocci editore, Roma 2015.

E.Prinzivalli (a cura di), Storia del cristianesimo. 1. L’età antica (secoli I-VII), Carocci editore, Roma 2015.

For the students who can not attend class:

E.Prinzivalli (a cura di), Storia del cristianesimo. 1. L’età antica (secoli I-VII), Carocci editore, Roma 2015.
M.Rizzi, Cesare e Dio. Potere spirituale e potere secolare in Occidente, Il Mulino “Saggi”, Bologna 2009.

Outlines of Church history in modern age (XIX-XX centuries)

In this year 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, studied in parallelism with the other Christian religious confessions. It will pay particular attention to methodological aspects, privileging the documents’ reading and making use of the maps, graphics and iconographic sources. It will pay particular attention to the historiography’s principal debates, the discussed subjects’ contextualization, the discipline’s technical language, the interactions between the religious institutions and the society and the culture.

- Dossier of documents provided from the teacher.
- Storia del Cristianesimo, dir. E. PRINZIVALLI, IV. L'età contemporanea (secc. XIX-XXI), a cura di GIOVANNI VIAN, Roma, Carocci, 2015 (Frecce, 195).