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Teaching the History of Christianity
The Wabash Center convened a consultation of scholars who teach the history of Christianity to discuss academic teaching and learning about the history of Christianity and to disseminate the results of the consultation in ways that will enhance teaching and learning about Christianity.
The goals focused on sharing and exploring insights that would lead to improved teaching and learning about the history of Christianity and to develop materials and resources, as determined by the group, that would be useful to other teachers and students.
Issues to Be Addressed:
• Effective classroom practices. What works and does not work in the classroom? What strategies for teaching and learning are most appropriate for teaching the history of Christianity at different levels and in different contexts? What types of syllabi work best to facilitate student learning? How are graduate assistants teach best in courses? At the consultation we will want to consider syllabi for courses in the history of Christianity (or portions thereof) that participants have used and found effective. No special preparation is expected for the first summer consultation session. Plans and outcomes for the second summer session will emerge from group consensus at the first session.
• Scope of the task. How do we adjudicate between well established canons of coverage and approach on the one hand and the new ways of conceiving the subject, the global expansion of Christianity, and new methods of conceptualizing and teaching the history of Christianity on the other? What do we really want our students to gain from our classrooms, both in the short and in the long term?
• Defining the subject. What differences result in our courses, if any, from conceiving the subject as 'church history' or 'religious history' or 'history of Christianity?' Do the differences matter?
• New technologies. What are the potentials and the limitations in using new information technologies for teaching the history of Christianity? How can new resources be used in the classroom?
Conveners:
Mark Noll, Wheaton College
Grant Wacker, Duke University
Wabash Staff Facilitator:
Raymond B. Williams
Outcomes:
The desired outcomes from the consultation are: (1) generation of ideas that will lead to improved teaching and learning about the history of Christianity and (2) development of materials and resources, as determined by the group, that will be useful to other teachers and students.
Participants:
Catherine Brekus, University of Chicago Divinity School
Anthea Butler, Princeton University
David Hall, Harvard Divinity School
Jehu Hanciles, Fuller Theological Seminary
Bruce Hindmarsh, Regent School
Arun Jones, Austin PresbyterianTheological Seminary
Laurie Maffly-Kipp, University of North Carolina
Bruce Mullin, General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church
Daniel Ramirez, Duke University Divinity School
Ronald Rittgers, Yale University
Dana Robert, Boston University
A. Gregg Roeber, Pennsylvania State University
Andrea Sterk, University of Notre Dame
Ann Taves, Claremont School of Theology
Robert Wilken, University of Virginia
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