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This course offers students the opportunity to explore in depth important thinkers and locales in early Christianity. It will critically analyse the contexts, settings, causes, key figures and sources, and the resultant trajectories of particular historical ecclesiastical phenomena. Of note, alongside this will be the theological concerns at stake and the influence of given movements on wider Christian thought and practice.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course offers students the opportunity to explore in depth important thinkers and locales in early Christianity. It will critically analyse the contexts, settings, causes, key figures and sources, and the resultant trajectories of particular historical ecclesiastical phenomena. In doing so, it will explore the developments of the period in question from a range of dimensions, including sociological, political, geographical, and economic. Along with the theological concerns at stake and the influence of given movements on wider Christian thought and practice, this course will also explore the developments of the period in question from a range of other dimensions, including sociological, political, geographic, and economic. This course will provide students with advanced methodological skills required for further study in this discipline.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 50 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 35 | Feedback Weeks | ||
| Feedback |
Written feedback provided. |
Word Count | 3500 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Analyse | Gain a demonstrable ability to analyse various scholarly positions on, and historiographical approaches toward, early periods in church history and their capacity to explain the relevant data. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Gain a critical awareness of the relationship between historical ecclesiastical phenomena and their connection with Christian theological developments of thought and/or practice. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Gain an advanced knowledge of the principal factors that gave rise to particular developments in early Christianity and resultant later trajectories. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Gain a competency both in the application of particular skills associated with these methodologies and in the critical evaluation of their deployment by others. |
| Procedural | Create | Advanced, subject-specific research-writing skills, through designing of essay topic; locating relevant primary & secondary literature; writing an essay that accords with discipline expectations |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 30 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 29 | Feedback Weeks | 31 | |
| Feedback |
Written feedback provided. |
Word Count | 1500 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Analyse | Gain a demonstrable ability to analyse various scholarly positions on, and historiographical approaches toward, early periods in church history and their capacity to explain the relevant data. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Gain a critical awareness of the relationship between historical ecclesiastical phenomena and their connection with Christian theological developments of thought and/or practice. |
| Procedural | Analyse | Gain a competency both in the application of particular skills associated with these methodologies and in the critical evaluation of their deployment by others. |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback |
Written feedback provided. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Conceptual | Analyse | Gain a demonstrable ability to analyse various scholarly positions on, and historiographical approaches toward, early periods in church history and their capacity to explain the relevant data. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Gain a critical awareness of the relationship between historical ecclesiastical phenomena and their connection with Christian theological developments of thought and/or practice. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Gain an advanced knowledge of the principal factors that gave rise to particular developments in early Christianity and resultant later trajectories. |
| Procedural | Create | Gain discipline-specific presentational skills, with opportunities to lead discussion and present findings in formats comparable to research conferences. |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | Feedback Weeks | |||
| Feedback | Word Count | 5000 | ||
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Procedural | Analyse | Gain a competency both in the application of particular skills associated with these methodologies and in the critical evaluation of their deployment by others. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Gain a critical awareness of the range and significance of the various methodologies (and their underlying values) that are utilised in the exploration of historical questions. |
| Conceptual | Understand | Gain an advanced knowledge of the principal factors that gave rise to particular developments in early Christianity and resultant later trajectories. |
| Conceptual | Evaluate | Gain a critical awareness of the relationship between historical ecclesiastical phenomena and their connection with Christian theological developments of thought and/or practice. |
| Procedural | Create | Advanced, subject-specific research-writing skills, through designing of essay topic; locating relevant primary & secondary literature; writing an essay that accords with discipline expectations |
| Conceptual | Analyse | Gain a demonstrable ability to analyse various scholarly positions on, and historiographical approaches toward, early periods in church history and their capacity to explain the relevant data. |
| Procedural | Create | Gain discipline-specific presentational skills, with opportunities to lead discussion and present findings in formats comparable to research conferences. |
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