In the graduate level education in which Payne Theological Seminary is engaged class attendance is a requirement.

Students should not expect to be able to produce the graduate level work required in the courses without regular attendance at all class sessions. In those rare occasions where it is necessary for a student to miss class it is important for the student to communicate this information directly to the instructor. The policy concerning leave to attend the student's Annual Conference is explained elsewhere. Each faculty member is responsible for her/his own attendance policy. In no instance, however, is the student permitted to have more than three absences in any course. This will automatically result in a grade of "F" for the course. Any exceptions to this policy must be approved by the faculty.

The papers will be either on:

1. The social and political context of the Early North African Church
2. An important leader in the history of the Early North African Christian Church.
3. Important movements in the Early North African Church.

In these papers you will be asked not only to examine the theology but the legacy left for the rest of Christianity as well. The paper must be 7-10 double-spaced typewritten pages with footnotes (endnotes) and bibliography according to Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers, 4th ed.

You are required to bring copies of your paper to class for the rest of the class members. The grade for the papers depends on the quality of your content and communication. PAPERS MUST BE TURNED IN ON TIME. LATE PAPERS WILL BE DOCKED.

The mid-term may include a map question and will have short identifications and short essays. The mid-term will be on Oct 16. THERE WILL BE NO MAKE-UP EXAMS!

The final will be like the mid-term and will cover material from the mid- term to the end. The final will be on DEC 18.

Brown, Peter. "Christianity and Local Culture in Late Roman Africa." Journal of Roman Studies. 1968.

______. "Religious Conversion in the Later Roman Empire: The Case of North Africa." History, 1963.

Budge, E. A. Coptic Texts. 5 vols. In 6 parts. 1910-1914; reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1977.

*Ferguson, Everett, ed. , Encyclopedia of Early Christianity. New York: Garland Press, 1990.

*Frend, W.H.C. "North Africa in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, 323 BC to AD 305." in The Cambridge History of Africa. vol.2, 500 B.C.-1050 A.D. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press: 148-209.

*______. "The Christian Period in Mediterranean Africa, c. AD 200 to 700." in The Cambridge History of Africa. vol.2, 500 BC-1050 AD. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press: 410-489.

*______. The Rise of Christianity. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984.

Goehring, James E. "Monastic Diversity and Ideological Boundaries in Fourth-Century Christian Egypt." Journal of Early Christian Studies (Spring 1997): 61-84.

*Gonzalez, J.L., A History of Christian Thought. vol.1, From the Beginnings to the Council of Chalcedon . Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1970

Gregg, Robert C., and Groh, Dennis E. Early Arianism: A View of Salvation. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1981.

Isichei, Elizabeth. A History of Christianity in Africa: From Antiquity to the Present. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995.

MacLennan, Hugh. Oxrhynchus. Amsterdam: AM Hakkert, 1968.

Merdinger, J.E. Rome and the African Church in the Time of Augustine. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.

Pearson, B.A., and Goehring, J.E., eds. The Roots of Egyptian Christianity. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1986.

Robinson, James M., gen. ed. The Nag Hammadi Library. revised ed. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1990.

Sahlberg, Carl-Erik. "Augustine - The African Who Influenced Europe." Africa Theological Journal (November, 1992): 112-129.

Tilley, Maureen A. "Sustaining Donatist Self-Identity: From the Church of the Martyrs to the Collecta of the Desert." Journal of Early Christian Studies (Spring 1997): 21-35.

Walters, C.C. Monastic Archaeology in Egypt. Warminster: Aris and Philipps, 1974.

Ward, Benedicta. The Sayings of the Desert Fathers. London: Mowbrays, 1975.

*Barnabas, Letter

*Clement of Alexandria, Stromata

*Origen, Commentary on St. John

Gospel of Thomas

*Tertullian, Apology

*Cyprian of Carthage, On the Unity of the Church

*Athanasius, Life of St. Anthony

*______, Discourses Against the Arians

*Augustine, Against the Heretic Donatus

*______, City of God

*______, Confessions