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HIST 406 - Rise of Early Christianity

(3 credits)
Prerequisite: HIST 111 or HIST 131
This course traces the development of Christian beginnings from the birth of Christ to the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325. It intends to examine the cultural, social, intellectual, political and religious climate in the Roman Empire out of which Christianity sprang, the problems the early Christians encountered, and the Christian reaction to these problems. May be taken for graduate-level credit.